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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards ... addition to 7 local governments, one for each of the 7 parishes. I got to ... parliament is responsible for making the laws of the country. The parliament

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

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... -shirts before going out for Korean food with friends. Immediately, the rush of MIT ... ="First-Year Pre-Orientation Program"]FPOP[/annotation] counselor for the First

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  coursework. The supervision work I talked about last week is only graded for ... questioning. C/C++ or Prolog - Lecture based classes with a programming ... for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  arrange the money for his US trip.” Determined Teen Overcomes Obstacles ... Today, the Class of 2012 formally register for classes and thus ... . So this summer, I watched the news wire for stories of incoming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  close friends is hard sometimes, but the short flights make it easy for us ... ??? Should I be posting words when I have to actually be writing words for my ... westward, some for grad school and some for work. Andrea M. ‘18 and I got an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  simply too different. All this to say: for me, choosing what to do after college was easier than choosing where to go for college. But only a little ... come back. So much for theory, then. Stay with MIT, or leave MIT. Choose

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  ="upperclassmen often sell their belongings for cheap on dormspam as they're moving out ... , took our wrench, and loosened the lugnuts for us. "oh my god," i said ... collecting vinyl for a while, but i've only ever bought one record. it was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... ! (Affirmative.) It's really hard for me to explain the nerd stereotype; the best ... see for yourself. I consider myself a nerd proudly, but at the same time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  for it: A restaurant that only sells chicken nuggets. I know, I can ... own Canadian format, called Reach for the Top, so I didn't (and still ... super excited to start practice for real this year. Once or twice a week

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  entering, sitting down, then standing up again and screaming for two and a ... for a second. Would you really continue toward that sign? Read on at ... ended up being pretty excited about the concert for two reasons. 1. Fans

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  of computer shopping for ease of readability (nobody wants to read a ... I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... started! There are two computer options for MIT: Desktops and laptops. Both

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  &A" because I'd like to answer your questions. My goal is for this to be the one-stop-shop ... label for it. This label helps sort our entries into the different ... 'd been getting a lot of questions lately. Lo and behold, while looking for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  't particularly expect S^3 to help me hunt for my phone in my room?"]stop grade-shopping ... laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  history. Since there are so many people applying for so few undergrad spots ... for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of ... undergrads at these interview weekends -- there were 8 or 9 of us out of 75

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... I've done this year really matters for my next steps -- graduate schools don't ask for mid-year reports or expect that you'll keep your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  the world on the status of those sidequests. It seems that the time for ... some final percentages for these sidequests. Sidequest 1: Learn the ... while I was here. I don't really have any defense for myself, but in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  other application components. As for your grades/marks, send us all that ... -Reported Coursework form in the application for the courses I took in the US? Or should ... who takes a class at a CC while waiting for their acceptance is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  friends shop for their dance outfits, and we were all collectively craving ... MIT for almost four years, I had not yet explored Boston's food scene as ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like lists so much is that they are perfect for dumping all of your thoughts

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022