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  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in ... frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is ... their interests and aptitudes with us on the standard MIT application

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  mentions MIT.  "So many people at MIT, let me tell you, MIT right now. Y ... in Silicon Valley. MIT, you can save the world. Kids in college, you ... earlier in a blogpost, there's quite a large percentage of MIT kids majoring

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of any college that I’ve ever heard of. Name a country, and MIT has a ... tricks to getting yourself around the world on MIT's dime. Start: 0 mi

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... for. Most MIT students take an average of 1 or 2 finals a semester (and ... MIT students have a lot on their plate, and are very willing to give you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... about places. About MIT and my complicated relationship with it. I don

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  6:00 this morning I was tugging my carry-on across MIT’s campus on the ... early (late?) 6:00 at MIT is. As I made the familiar trek past Mac ... belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  something like “haha that was honestly as hot as MIT will be in December, I am ... the exact same when I came to MIT. I would have a good amount of friends ... ’t know I live in the #1 dorm on all of MIT campus #BURTONCONNERORDEATH

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT, I directed the MIT ESP SAT Program (and co-founded MIT ATI) and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the ... described:   Founded in 2003, the MIT Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... ; At MIT, a hunger for chocolate knowledge   Jayson Lynch (center

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  serve the MIT campus (which covers both the campus in Cambridge and the ... run pretty much the same as they do. (My last post about MIT-EMS was here.) Kevin wants to know: How is the food at MIT? The food at MIT is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  A preview, courtesy of today's MIT homepage: It was 2:03 pm when I ... . Gerberding was also apparently involved with setting up the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing (a 10-year partnership between MIT and one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since ... at MIT is assigned a unique identifier. Most commonly, this is a number ... MIT almost exclusively refer to their majors by number unless they are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  describe the unveiling of 2008 Brass Rat. Brass Rat? That's right, MIT has ... brass plated in the MIT Lab for Metallurgy. Just kidding! ('ll be here all ... been an MIT tradition since 1929, which was also when Class President C

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  admissions blogger: MIT students are the Institute’s best ambassadors and ... to experience Interphase EDGE/x, or live on Conner 2, or host an adMIT ... to help our students communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  means to an end, many seem to have lost the plot. At MIT, we are mission ... problems, although the full Mission Statement reads… “The mission of MIT is ... knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges. MIT is dedicated to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  many projects in my life. While MIT students have IAP in January and take ... capsule at this point in my post-yet-kind-of-not-post-MIT journey. Also, as ... still love dearly and stay in touch with.']my closest friends from my MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... pack into Kresge, MIT’s largest auditorium, with overflow rooms and a live webcast, and covered by MIT News, the Boston Globe, and other media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to figure out which of these came from cj and which ones came from vincent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  failed that wasn't at MIT was my driver's test."]I don't have to drive ... I know that the probability of every incoming student at MIT having ... frustration on my notes. When MIT websites don't work You ever hate it when

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  in September. I asked her how MIT felt. For the first time, I didn ... changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or ... reflection of MIT windows not who I want to see? Is who I was before not good

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021