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• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  row asked me what else you could do in labs besides classes and UROP. At ... developing countries. One of a number of programs in MIT's International ... just a sampling of groups at MIT, and don't forget that a lot of the cool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal ... textbooks don't even make good sandwiches. *All books were bought used at reduced prices. Food was bought unused, but usually at reduced prices

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  fiction. All my other work, less holy, could be done in libraries or at my desk. At some point in the past, these things made up my life. [caption ... communities and art. I sought that out at MIT, found it in East Campus, Burton

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  closet at home, and found some …. Things.  The sorting process started out ... , birthday presents, random art we made, etc.  But buried at the bottom ... character, and then post it on a fan page. But no, we wrote this essay for no

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  the legendary Debbie Douglas, director of collections at the MIT Museum: Furthermore, Douglas wrote, at the time there was an “existential issue ... of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  . is a senior in Mechanical Engineering, who arrived at MIT thinking that ... Director for their performance of Jekyll and Hyde. One day, at an MTG party ... about hacking at MIT." Julie: "I've been looking to write a musical! If

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... required core classes in science, history, and math. One at a time, teachers ... of Godel Escher Bach in my bookcase at home, right next to Marvin

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  front page of the Boston Globe was an article about two brothers at MIT ... Now that things have calmed down a bit at work, I finally have some ... (those of you who went to the Closing Remarks and Variety Show at CPW may

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... do they really help?" Actually, some tests at MIT go beyond index

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  through the NY Times, which MIT generously provides at no cost, I came across a front page article titled, "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set ... working or only work part-time once they have children, or at least until

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  11-12. This morning I woke up at 11:10, rolled over and shut off my ... peaking at about 20,000 votes per minute and I don't think upon rebooting ... . Looking at their list of currently sponsored schools, I don't think they

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  just that I am currently a junior studying in an International School in ... dreams.i am studying at india .please tell what are requirements and exam that i should write to do my graduate course at mit" Sandesh wrote, "How

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  vegan) options every day. There are lots of vegetarians at MIT! :) Whether ... different levels of exposure (even at times little or none) to ECs ... we're very good at this. You can help your own case by helping us to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  become a valuable intern! When a friend that I know at UPenn is struggling ... humanities and science education at MIT." First off, here are a few things that ... about and look at science? 21. Even if you don't want to major in science

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  events page (linked at the bottom of this post) for when the fly ... We’ve been busy at the STARS College Network at MIT! This past year ... programming, here’s a year in review of what STARS Ambassadors at MIT have been

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  semester are spent in a sleep-deprived and over-caffeinated haze, probably at ... remind one of the sheer number of unfinished pages they must write within ... less sense. and meeting page requirements is difficult as it is, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  life having no close friends, so i have internalized the fact that there ... internally perceptive. i must be emotionally stable and physically strong (i ... good at making stuff and so on. and i feel the need to be all these

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  /statistics class. From Anna: Do you know anyone at MIT who came from a rural area or ... taking 18.01 (Calculus 1) and, say, 8.01L (Physics 1 at a slow pace, for ... very little about the music program. I will point you at the relevant

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  th, 2020 Admitted and prospective students The College Board, International Baccalaureate, and Cambridge Assessment International Education have announced ... impact of these changes on credit placement at MIT. The first thing you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a ... should look at each of them and, somewhere in the back of our minds, for ... best at starting conversations so making new friends was very difficult

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017