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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  route: Leg 1 (Checkpoint High Tea) London to Prague We polish of our ... "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash across пњљпњљ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  from the University of Minnesota, that humans swim equally fast in syrup ... and three degrees of firmness. Though, in his own words, it took him "a ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  , offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... whatnot. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: You can be pre-med at MIT, but you'll have to ... like something out of The Running Man, except without Richard Dawson

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  really like bio - in a slightly different version of this universe, I would ... semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are ... coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of ... , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  of Los Angeles beaches, of London fog, of New York City lights. Now ... The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP psychology class, we learned about the different theories of emotion

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you ... return offer after you graduate, and hopefully sponsor your H1B visa. All ... .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of ... , “Do you want to see this?” “Yes, I do.” During the fall of my senior

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  , University of Northern Iowa (http ... and Literature University of Northern Iowa January 2006 The Statement ... Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at the University of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty-degree ... Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you've got a very lost American kid somewhere west of Central Tokyo. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Museum of Science today to check out the reception site. Hanging in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune, Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  longer surprised me. Past professors or TAs of mine have also offered to do ... psychology grew out of a call for universal education, and that it reciprocally ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  laboratories, and universities around the world; - support of MIT faculty for ... One of my sophomore advisees asked me about MIT summer opportunities ... the educational and life experiences of students through leadership and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  research or industry experience on top of an advanced degree if you ... This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT, the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  in a fresh layer of panic, bolted outside in 40-degree wind chill, ran ... Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That ... a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  and affiliated companies (collectively, NBC Universal) are the owners of ... similar activities) of the NBC Universal Property or Properties listed below ... that use of the NBC Universal Property or Properties in the manner

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016