Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  the whole strange controversial concept of “designer babies” and the ... feet over the edge of my bunk bed and just stared out of the windows of ... the middle of my preschool playground, everything is small and laughable

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• FAQ / Transfer

  What are the deadlines for transfer admission?

  with all supporting documents by October 15, 2025. Only U.S. citizens and ... supporting documents by March 1, 2026. Please visit the Transfer deadlines & requirements page for further details.
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  trick is to add the oil very slowly at first, and to add a bit of cold ... was comfortable, easy, and safe. Safe was good. So what was the point of ... to the idea of carpe diem, seize the day, chase your dreams, and other

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  , allow you to avoid the negative sides of GIRs and go through your whole ... workings of the Media Lab through seminars and preparation for UROPs ... in Media Arts and Sciences" one of the unique aspects of MAS is the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  experiences with Course 6-9 and give an overview of what the major is like ... departments! It was announced in the spring of 2019 and remains MIT ... analysis and abstractions of the brain to understand the principles that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs ... rooms. And there was no one else on the floor, but I'd hear the voices of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  with the roles of academia and industry reversed, or with two different ... as the thesis because you now understand the role of the antithesis and ... wise and virtuous during my favorite chapter of the book, the son gets

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  sugar and flour, and 7 large cans of shortening. On the way back, Kristen, who was driving, needed to brake suddenly and the whole pallet just fell everywhere (2:16). This dented a few of the cans and made a mess in the uhaul

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  'll move the information sessions out of the admissions reception area and ... publications and websites. During the Admissions season, it is difficult to focus ... some snazzy new stuff on MyMIT. Wrapping up the Class of 2009 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  that I knew no Americans in the city for the first week and a half or so ... Parisian. Of course, my trip wasn't all fun and games and hanging out. The ... the banks of the Seine get covered with sand and there are lots of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  between the Great Hunger of intellectual curiosity and a kind of depraved ... -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then ... ’s. And like, that’s okay, or at least as okay as any of the other countless ... , and my car back home guzzles gas to the tune of 20 miles per gallon, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... opinions and create my own war in the comments. My biggest issue with "end-of ... movies and also rarely go. Part of that is the curse of streaming has

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  language barrier and recalls discovering the power of non ... for the future, and providing a method of income generation.” Alia also ... , and the girls’ bank accounts. If you are interested, visit their website

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  heritage and apparently having a face that looks kind of funny, to the extent ... . The first time I visited the MIT Admissions website to look at the ... slow and incremental and often nonexistent. It requires the height of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  algorithms, and our very first autonomous driving system. The Cool Stuff ... , and decoupled suspension. Our car’s [annotation note="the amount of time ... ? I think the boom of the software and artificial intelligence era has

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  all of the names and numbers for your convenience. As a funny side note ... Philosophy EDIT: I just realized that the "Majors and Minors" page on the ... ? First of all, it means that I chose 2A, the "flexible" version of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  the geek category: alums of Caltech and the University of Chicago.Regular action applicants across the country are concerned about the processing of ... the contestants on the reality TV show Beauty and the Geek 2 (guess

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... "]machine learning[/annotation] algorithms, and the minutiae of [annotation note="6 ... Boston"] IAP [/annotation] shivering and staring at the frozen surface of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  experiences alone? All of these ways to "do" CPW (and the ∞ other ones I didn ... (as is the rest of undergrad) to learn more about yourself, and you ... people to death and they make the rest of your day a blessing). Talk to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019