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• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics graduate school. In case that didn’t work out, I also applied to what I ... , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... --just one of the many things they'll let you do with an MIT degree. Here's me ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  scares me. I'm from Oregon, I'm applying next year, and that's not a lot of ... going to affect me at all when I apply? Also, I've taken a lot of ... and sciences, which is necessary to survive here (which does apply to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)! He shares the ... Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  rankings by those sketchy university ranking websites. I guess a lot of ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... economics (Course 14), realized over the course of the following year that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  science aspect of my degree altogether and dedicated myself to sociology ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... from University of Northeastern [Flyover State]-[Suburb] Campus or ... brains"]UROPs,[/annotation] [annotation note="Program Director and host of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I ... parks and lakes, and lots of friendly neighborhood cats that love

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... dorm showers—their water pressure, the speed of them heating up. It hit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  [annotation note="University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program ... One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note="because this is our first time actually being on campus"]second round of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... resistivity when pressure is applied to them, our hope is to be able to use that property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  psychology and political science. At MIT, she founded the MIT branch of Camp ... year, MIT students won three of the 32 scholarships. This brings MIT's count to 43 Rhodes Scholars. Below, find the "official" biographies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  -dimensional science geek (most of the time). I read poetry voluntarily, and I quote it ... of discrimination I have ever received as a woman in science is that ... Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  conducted all sorts of applied science and engineering projects. Older ... University of Ghana’s Office of Research Innovation and Development (ORID ... Mr. Dogoe to reach out to a faculty member at the University of Ghana

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... account is only applicable to my own department (materials science and ... learning exactly how their graphs are derived, and probably plenty of

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply ... applying to WAY too many because of indecisiveness. Now, we are existentially ... applying to WAY too many because of indecisiveness.  We didn’t expect this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  University of Pennsylvania, which had recruited me for their creative writing ... don't offer the financial stability of an established company. But even ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006