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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  dives while glossing over the restaurants at MIT's doorstep. What's worse ... distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... -flavors-of-Triscuits supermarket. The fruit is an order of magnitude cheaper than at LaVerde's in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the ... weenie. So since some of the categories don't have many entries at the ... -discussed topics. Hence, today: Undergraduate Advising at MIT. Freshman advising

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  from home for months at a time, but I also believe the general atmosphere at The Institute totally drives homesickness out of your mind simply because there is so much to be done at any given time. Get excited for all

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  international students.   Today was the second and final day of international selection. It was extremely difficult, but I'm very excited ... admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is well known in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  . What's up with the international selection? We're still reviewing international applications, in parallel to the selection of domestic applicants (including US citizens/permanent residents living abroad). International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  international students.   This past week, I attended an annual conference on international admissions (I attended last year as well). The ... with US/Canada admissions officers who work with international

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  that QuestBridge applicants often have at this stage: Q: What do I do ... considered for Early Action. Q: I am an international student. Which tests ... interviewer's information, contact interview at mit dot edu for assistance

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  The MIT homepage has a great spotlight today about the Institute's contributions to cancer research. I'll reprint it below: Even without a medical ... laureates (three presently at MIT), five Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  we look at things like that but we're not strict about it. So, if a ... over international students on the waitlist? No, but we do consider whether admitting international students from the waitlist would put us over

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  school senior from India and thereby an international candidate.I am one of ... address an email to Stu Schmill, Director of the Educational Council, at ... a person working in the MIT admissions office at a recent college fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  , interning at a writers’ retreat, and backpacking through Europe. This break, I ... exactly one journal entry, begun at 3 am and completed at 4, after which I ... , etc etc. In hindsight I had consumed a Monster at 9pm

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can ... and hours to complete them? Ay, there's the rub - if you don't do the ... easy). Quite soon, after you begin taking exams at MIT, you'll be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  you, huh? Well, here's the latest model if you want to look at it ... 't know this yet, but you'll become a doctor in internal medicine. Your days ... , but once you get to supervise interns, it will be pretty cool :) So don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Habits for AY 2017 (Academic Year 2017) I’m trying something a little ... Scholars Program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (that was a lot of ... ! For the month of July, I continued my UROP with the Media Lab. I UROP at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  flower pressed between pages. Here’s a snapshot of a week: https ... to wake up at 7:30, hit snooze a lot, and stumble into a cafe around 9 ... plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  tradition at my company, see: every time someone has a birthday, an ... engineers all look at each other; “Cake?” We scramble from our seats and ... taste much better when they cost 10 krones (~$1.50) at the supermarket

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  homepage last fall. It's pretty wild stuff. As always, thank you to all of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... 'm here to do is tell you about life at MIT. Selection's all over and the ... communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006