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• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  the National Institutes of Health doing PCR and analyzing paternities in ... note, with some degree of amusement, that in the case of the example I ... thousands of dollars that are flowing back and forth on paper between you and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  focus of attempting to gain admission to a specific institution or type of ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  class best taken at MIT, as the Institute is on the forefront of ... It is another fascinating semester here at the Institute, and I would ... academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  the interactions of science, technology, and society. We now live in a ... One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is ... catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  article! We’ll be going back to New York in the beginning of June for more ... the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the ... Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  anything shu going out of their way to visit me this weekend from new york ... one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have puppies), and classes that will be offered next term. It becomes second

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  does your computer offer you in comparison to how many units of utility ... have degrees from 3 different colleges and all of them have students ... interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  that on long days like this one, offers a wisp of fresh air. A place that ... hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... reminded of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera – Black and Puerto Rican ... trans women of color) is that progress has not been as drastic for their

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  One week down! One of you asked about what I'm doing down here -- I'm splitting my time between Service Design/Performance and Technology Services, so basically, applying technology to the analysis and optimization of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all ... Living Group). With most of the options being coed, the powers that be need ... first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  fonts."]display fonts[/annotation] of the Technology Review and the Media ... of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in ... :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... [by Vicky Thomas '12] Like most of you reading this, I stalk these ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  once. I still haven't even read all of them. Which is my loss, really ... of navigating to just the topic you want. You know that bright, rainbow-colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  ." Why today?  Today is Friday: the most glorious day of the week. I woke up at 8:30, sat in bed cooing at pictures of adorable baby zoo animals ... totally reasonable concern). So much for waking up well ahead of time. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that ... interesting. EVERYTHING. I’m exaggerating, of course, but only a little. There ... about before this summer, and all of a sudden, they all seem like the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  " come from the Thomson Reuters list of Citation Laureates (which has been a reasonable predictor of winners). Here they are, in alphabetical ... ; Bengt Holmstrom (Economics) Theory of the firm | Contracting and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012