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• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  , can we have dinner tomorrow night? i feel like i haven't seen you all in ... 's possible?!), it's about time I get some work done. But first... Some of you ... - this year's freshman class is 55% male, 45% female - but you won't get an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... works. these fields are built around the premise that you can change the ... counterargument here would be something like: you can’t control what your friend

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  get to show up, sing with a lot of extremely talented people, learn some ... pitches, and then honing the actual musical expression: where to breathe, where to sing loudly and where to sing softly, how to form each individual

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  myself who like to window-shop at Tiffany. You can get to them on the Green ... farmer's market in the city on weekend mornings. You can get great deals on ... sort of thing)... however, you can also get stuck with bug-infested or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  for it through a Google form (FYI: most MIT classes you can just ... along with the drawings, but you get the idea. [carousel image1 ... I had a lightbulb moment! One great thing about this class is you can

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  't get enough), I made my way to Tech East, one of the sections of CES. The ... .   I tried out technology that let you walk in virtual reality, a camera that can take crystal clear photos of the night skies, a collection of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  , where I would get most of my meals from networking events with free food (a well-balanced diet if you know where to look). I used the money that ... wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about the PE requirement here. If you're a varsity athlete, earning your 8 ... Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend. MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting ... make sure that this independent study can count towards your major if you get it approved because you haven't really heard of anyone else doing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  muscles, you can still get your legs up there using your momentum. (For ... , we climb a tall ladder and stand on a tiny platform, where we get ... your belt.) Then lean forward. (This is where you really need to trust

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  car on the table by itself and seeing how many points you can score. My ... this summer! You can see Professor Slocum, the main teacher of the class ... .007 has come to a close. If you're saying, "2.007, huh?" click here and read

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started ... Where in the World is The Nance Effect? That, my friends, is the ... advisor for the first time. You gotta feel sorry for the three poor saps who

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  course if you wait a few years they get quite large... Photo courtesy of ... , 11.125 is more likely to talk about whether the tests you write for ... talked a little bit about trees. As you know, they grow from seeds, much

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  . You're the kind of person where I know I can tell you anything and I won ... take a quick look at that?" Just know that you can't get rid of me that ... anyone like you. It's something that you can only understand once you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  to Threes by Asher Vollmer. You can also play the game at the original ... by Summer Moulder '26. Inspired by GetMIT by Mitchell Gu. Based on 2048

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  and/or summer. You can even get paid for it, which is awesome. [caption ... the different ways that you can get one, written from a student ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  get better. Rather, you get better at being at MIT. It's the little ... . Don't waste time trying to prove to yourself that you can finish a PSET ... spots. Go explore. Take breaks when you're studying. No one can work at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education. You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration ... Connecticut. "No one would ever argue against No Child Left Behind, but when you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  spa in downtown Andorra la Vella, where you can go do a zumba class and ... small towns, which you can see in the map above: Ordino, Canillo, La ... you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  relief I can't even tell you. This week, I installed the Heroku CLI (which ... to dual-boot. That's where you install two different operating systems ... benefit of having the tools you need to get the job done. On the other hand

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018