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• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... York at Stony Brook on Long Island, NY. I chose this to be the first ... ), which I'm currently reading. So, I sit here on Amtrak with the book, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  much you need to spend before you sell anything on your truck: between ... science department! We listened to presentations on "How to Invent Food on a ... Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  mit x caltech rivals to lovers another comic shitpost

  

  i made this in a day and sacrificed a pset youre welcome

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  's biggest telescopes: Other perks of working at JPL: getting to meet Mohawk ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back to his room with him to see his hydraulic door. To this day he insists

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• FAQ / Testing

  Will MIT accept December testing for Regular Action?

  proficiency test scores for RA applicants through the January test dates. To submit new results, simply click the "Add new test scores" link in the
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write your college essays. I just finished working with the MITES and E2 kids so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new ... ’m beyond hyped for this semester. I get to mass produce yo-yos, build a robot ... Last Sunday may not have been my first time coming back to MIT, but I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  appreciate your having been able to wait with us into the early summer. This ... schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... This afternoon, we notified the 64 students remaining on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  18.701 to 701, I keep thinking you’re talking about biology ... escape the trivial. 8/10 epsilon Example: “It’s getting warm, I’m going to ... away you are from a radio station, the more your signal-to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... naturally i’d be attracted to the avatar metaphor on the other hand, i don

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  to genuinely care for one another, and on that front, I have little ... ,[/annotation] and it may be a few more weeks before we see leaves begin to return to the trees, which have sat barren all winter. But, here on campus, there

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  'm intending on taking this class. Next time I'm going to try to get there early ... for the entire class. I really, really like this class. We get to build ... -and-greet before the first day of lecture on Thursday, so I went to the Media Lab to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  . (Definition of MIT, #129: The ability to Taylor expand your states of ... Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  you will enjoy. He says, "Remember that you're under no obligation to ... 's time to look elsewhere." Outside of the lab, Vivek enjoys playing on the ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your ... ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your ... Salvador read a given application before Amy? First person to answer

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  because I decided to stay up late and continue working on my critical review ... So I will elaborate on this entry later this evening, but for now, I'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  my time in school, and he told me about his efforts to get his friends ... crack down on students whose only recourse is to whine that their parties ... in the nation. But in less than one month, the MIT community gets to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one ... out on not having to take any once again. Last semester, I took all ... project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  going to go, I was more focused on the prospect of high school ... apply EA to MIT on a whim. Which brings us here. To now. Me, a computer ... me to keep on chugging or would've made me less anxious and so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020