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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  ) Explores the role of government in the economy, applying tools of basic ... Toward the Scientific Revolution The emergence of Western science: the ... semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT ... , Illinois, the DC area, Florida, and more. Complete list of MIT Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  started getting interview invites from a handful of the places I applied to ... handed me a degree progress sheet that showed I was four electives short of ... stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... glassblowing, we used glass frit – tiny shards of glass – to apply the colour ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  Dear reader: It's time that I confess one of the most soul-wrenching facts of the blogging profession. (Pardon me, did I just call it a profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  universities are in the area. Take advantage of it. French House Sports I'm the ... moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... of the cultural houses within New House (the others are German House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Medical Doctor with a Biology degree, MIT Class of 1985. For more ... night they showed the final game of the three-game set between the ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm

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

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  offers a lot of choices, and navigating those choices is much easier if you ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... . That is of course, until they had the opportunity to experience all

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ). You can review the list of meetings at http ... in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a ... admitted to MIT are admitted to the entire university and may choose any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  for most of the five years before I finally applied. Needless to say it ... experience the journey of applying from another (your) side. Please comment ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  's true for biology is pretty true for all of the natural sciences). First ... with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and ... of my life (aka lab), things are going spectacularly. I developed a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... workshop sponsored by MISTI Japan and learned the intricacies of flowers and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  talked about the the power of technology and data science to bring change ... accountability in data science, and a "bill of rights for data" so that everyday ... critical lens to the algorithms and technologies of the present that we apply

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  questions of your EC as well. Remember: questions of science, science and ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  is the medium of instruction" school. My school offers a very limited ... olympiads be an equally good indicator of my passion for computer science?" I ... specifics of academic potential are part of of match

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/Applying ... with 👀, but do I want to dox my Reddit account to all of you? No. I ... me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life ... would revolve around science and engineering. I’ve definitely found it ... the fall. While my science education has been immensely rewarding and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to decisions.mit.edu. 18,357 students applied to the MIT Class of 2018. As of today, and inclusive of Early Action, we have offered ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2018 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer from one of them, then I’d strongly consider doing an internship there ... try to look for an internship, although several of my friends did. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020