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• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  - the King of the Internet, Chris Peterson, fresh from a master's degree ... * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I like fireworks. (Although a couple years ago I had a friend that kind of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher education for everyone. It has been our experience that the cost of applying

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include ... from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just ... Jeff Silva of Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), who makes each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  keep my room at a feisty 80 degrees this winter and start a refuge ... “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... of soup), social life, free food hunts, and a dumpsterload of potential

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... As one of my “Treat. Yo. Self.” presents for my birthday, I got 3 ... ’t just want to assemble one-thousand pieces to see some cartoon image of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... winner of Charles Stark Draper Prize (considered to be the “Nobel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this ... yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither ... change of scenery is refreshing and jumpstarts my mind to continue working

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... , thermodynamically, electrically, and philosophically. So, twenty hours of MATLAB and ... graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  't offer something to meet every students' unique individual learning styles, we have a variety of programs to choose from. MIT’s first-year learning communities offer a distinct kind of learning environment that
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... --just one of the many things they'll let you do with an MIT degree. Here's me ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... Donuts is one of our favorite places in general: it is my and Cory ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) runs outreach programs under the School of Engineering at MIT for underrepresented ... students free of charge.  
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  The MIT Office of Minority Education (OME) provides a home base for many of MIT's underrepresented minority students. OME's mission is to ... professional mindsets among students of underrepresented minority groups, with
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes ... . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  me three classes away from a chem degree. Regardless of what anyone may ... intention of pursuing a dual degree said this: "Were you insane?" Maybe I am ... anything new. I bought the camera to celebrate the end of my dual degree

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  -packed weekend in California, a lot of rain, and no access to a treadmill. At this ... and of varying degrees of tired or not, walking forward at a welcomingly ... . I had expected something worse, or at the very least, some degree of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About halfway into IAP, I wrote Sam with the intention of stealing his infinite ... ." "OK LET'S DO THAT!" Anyway. Lots of questions, lots of answers

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  last two days have been nothing short of gorgeous (it's SEVENTY-SEVEN DEGREES out right now. hear that? SEVENTY-SEVEN). (it's currently predicted to be cold and rainy during the first two days of CPW :( ) Yes, you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  of scope offered by our humanities courses, which is sort of the best ... /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... , which is as complete a record as anything else of offbeat communications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015