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Blog / Personal Travel
Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.
students give presentations on their research and the chair of the admissions ... and faculty members of the Cell/Developmental Biology division at the ... 've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in -
Blog / Admissions
The CPW Weather Machine Strikes Again a frivolous day in the sun and grass
The weather sobered up just in time for CPW, and we celebrated the ... to slow the breakdown of pectin in the potatoes is pretty cool). As ... . Meanwhile, I caught the perfect lighting and discovered that everyone I know -
Blog / Personal Travel
Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!
work and get ahead for the next week. Umm... right... it never really ... Friday night, after 7.5 hours of traveling (via T, Greyhound, walking, and NJ transit) and basically crashed. Saturday morning, we ate the best -
Blog / How to MIT
how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr
alter the angle, firmness of grip, where you hold the chalk, and even how ... ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs ... chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post -
Blog / Events
Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art
men are out of sight, and I am laughing in the street. I make ... lovely faces: Pri and Mira, '16, with the creator of Khan Academy. Khan ... 's about going and building things. When you walk out [of MIT], the most -
Blog / Admissions
Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger
-shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and ... learned today in class, and so forth. The day-to-day experience of your ... and worthwhile; the blogs are a specific example of the general case -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!
computer and actually help run the campaign of the man they wanted in the ... obstacles of the past- time, space, wealth- and remake the world with the ... Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading -
Blog / Miscellaneous
From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.
Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about microloans and microfinance. Relatedly, you really should check out the work being done at both the Poverty Action Lab and the Program in Developmental -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.
(thank you, amma!), watching bits and pieces of "Family Ties" with my dad, sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter ... 'll be spending most of my summer days, chilling with centrifuges and -
Blog / Admissions
We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.
the surface and learning for the sake of a grade instead of for the sake ... , watching four hours of movies a day, and sleeping through the other half). To ... high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Not Admitted
converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... , shake it off, and remember that you will survive, even thrive, wherever you -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Not Admitted
converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... , shake it off, and remember that you will survive, even thrive, wherever you -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Not Admitted
converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... , shake it off, and remember that you will survive, even thrive, wherever you -
FAQ / First-year application
Do I need a high school diploma to apply?
your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the ... MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from -
Blog / Challenges
Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all
of the #pandemiclifestyle, partially because it's my last semester and ... a week, and maintain the sort of schedule I would have gotten used to ... , which is increasingly sounding more and more ideal to me. By the end of -
Blog / Events
The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.
, solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the ... and cold afternoon but the feeling of liberation from classwork kept the ... man) and the features and architecture of the house. Now, this wasn -
Blog / MIT Life
Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.
pets in dorms, and the number of pet-friendly schools appears to be on ... cat for a couple of minutes and just de-stress." On the third floor of ... , administrators say. The felines add a warm touch to a high-pressure environment of -
Blog / Life after MIT
Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)
, rolling it up into katamari, and eating it! Here are some pictures of the ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for ... total of 6 years.) Besides the time-savings, I am excited about this -
Blog / Miscellaneous
And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.
DID YOU KNOW? The highest ever cricket batting average of all time ... 't wait! Stay tuned for tales of my audition for The Amazing Race, the ... MIT guest in Harrisburg, an 800-pound butter sculpture, and, of course