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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  final presentation of the class Science Fiction to Science Fabrication ... the importance of science fiction in engineering the future. The full ... I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  applicants. After several rounds of an extremely rigorous transfer committee process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  's early life. But once you get into the science part of it, some really ... . The defendents were all universally cleared, leading the mother of one ... reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP ... must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of ... MASlab, and is one of the few MIT courses I've run up against so far that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  Science degree. Please love me. I'm single. I'm ready to mingle. Please ... chat this: HELL. FUCKING. YES. For those of you who don't know me ... the second row of the theatre, but honestly not complaining, I could

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  universe it means I am part of something much bigger than myself   ... one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will ... of days during my best of times no matter what the world moves on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  RISE (Roots In Science and Engineering) and is an example of how ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be precise - by receiving a very selective award from Google (of equal monetary

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don ... , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each ... OOOoo! 20.320 Analysis of Biomolecular and Cellular Systems The boring

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... plan. Or improvise. After end of IAP rolled around, I was one of those ... excitedly spoke of internships at Microsoft, Google, or MISTI, I frantically

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... form), and if you are applying for the Match, check off that you are applying Early Action. You do not need to complete the Part 2 (essays

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I ... , Paul Happily, it turns out that I have a lot of friends who like to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  of the most popular offerings that fill up very quickly include the ... there’s a bunch of IAP offerings on programming. The options include ... are course 6! I have got to taste some of this, the computer science

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  totally made my day. Engineers rock. Of course, Wallace is failing MechE and then cheated, like an idiot! So of course he got caught, and I’m supremely disappointed in his lack of judgment. Still. Mechanical engineering

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  well at applying knowledge.  Effective use of knowledge means quickly ... deeper into the science of what you're working with in order to better ... the context of science/engineering, I think creativity on a daily basis

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  vague memories of him making and offering me cookies but I am rude and I ... ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... . Cory is reading a book (I think it was One Hundred Years of Solitude). I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  technicality. School 1 = Engineering, 58% of students. School 2 = Science. School ... ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any ... applications from people who have no business applying to MIT to liven up

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  jesus christ, MIT alum friends of mine are talking to me about applying ... we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005