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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  't studied for? Femto-cool. You could even apply it to those tricky end-of ... , you can apply it to the magnitude of abstraction you take in a subject ... English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering ... work on represents a different area of materials science than I had ... project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  maybe I need to start looking at the glass of science as half full. And ... something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating ... . I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  advantage of the free resources that the GECD offers beyond résumés, like mock ... It totally hit me today when I stumbled upon a copy of the Tech and ... schedule, and you never really are able to stay on top of everything. The

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  totally blog about this.” “I wonder if I could get that grant if I applied ... . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... ) are so important—they’re designed to give you a glimpse of what life

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... , entertainment and media as an industry, and the power of a holiday special. I could probably write three of four different blog posts about just what I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  many colleges I applied to, and the fact that almost all of them admitted ... "Columbia," "University of Maryland," or "Case Western Reserve." It's actually ... photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  friend. Is it emo enough? Spotted at the Boston Museum of Science: one of the sample songs to learn about sound was performed by the MIT ... wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  Science & Engineering Here's Director Royer, head of MIT's Department ... Conference I attended last Saturday as part of Women's Week Here are ... hotel's website, NOT to its email address) Dean Jones (Dean of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the ... academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  , and we know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  year. We admitted 1715 students for an admit rate of 9.6%, or fewer than one of every ten applicants. Because of the size and the strength of ... were simply unable to offer admission to. All applicants should know that

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was ... working on some important stuff for Bayer CropScience. Anyway, I'm not going ... understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  iterations, but MIT is a kaleidoscope of vastly different people, all of us united by this one weird thing or set of things that keeps us moving (it ... , I sat down with one of them, Kevin, to talk about his room, which I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  jam, Feastables, and slices of whole wheat bread. MIT Science Olympiad ... dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Dan Tecker wrote: Hey my ... . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , non-profit organizations, or academic course offerings in and around MIT campus. Groups and organizations of all types set up booths to display ... offerings related to International Development. The Fair is also the flagship

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of ... who is working on something that you think is awesome. More than 90% of MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will