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• 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 / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  Name: Jonathan Lii Hometown: Manhasset, NY Degrees and Minor: 18 and ... where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other ... sorts of crazy artifacts in his office and visiting him is always a treat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• 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
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  Perpendicular Universe, Exactly, Over 9,000: an Abbreviated Yet Awesome Tour Of ... universe in a vending machine to get a cup of coffee. After recovering the ... lockboxes didn't really make sense in-universe. Then there was the concept of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  out the sun over a path that included the states of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... Kresge Oval on MIT campus. The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors ... institute. Her senior thesis is in the use of micro-electro-mechanical devises in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  of Chemical Science - 12 credits - GIR for Chemistry The chemical ... science works). Economics wasn't offered at my school, but I decided to take ... oodle of money) to MIT. If you apply for funding from the UROP office, you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  before schedule, esp because I am thinking of applying EA)" Sorry, I should ... 's offered in terms of back stage work for freshman. Also, are students allowed ... 'm sure you must be familiar with most of them) how highly do you rank the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  -and-a-half, but no less than two purposes for existence, both of which are exciting ... the dregs of October, I've finally decided that today is the momentous ... lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... somebody else will take care of my life. iii. This is my theory about age

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  Science) sorts of things. It's almost like MIT made these fields overlap on ... More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  nerds. You start with a soup of universally strong math backgrounds, then ... models… The lure of computer science has sunk its talons into us, and it ... There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  , Firefly. I've shaken hands with my boss's boss, which puts me two degrees of ... I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one ... of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  kinds of movies I hate - the ones that over-explain their pseudo-movie-science ... " degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little ... torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  Legacy of England (21L.420), then they are available! Another traditional duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and ... MIT knowing about math and science and nothing else? Would attending a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  Content warning: brief mentions of anxiety, BPD, hospitalization Hi ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... ) but also what you didn't. I knew, of course, that MIT students got to ... 't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  . Finally, a nearly 270-degree panorama of Boston and Cambridge. You can see ... It's sort of funny how some of the most interesting things happen ... lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008