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• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  never ends, and now I won't be so lucky to get my application read by Matt and Ben), the first step to getting into medical school is submitting an ... -med advisors generally recommend getting taking the MCATs as soon as you're done

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say goodbye to. Friends that I couldn’t get a hold of before leaving campus ... guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter ... Thursday I can be found sprinting across Killian Court to get to poetry on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  a student or a parent, you could forward this to your math or science ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  weeks of emailing, trying to get in contact with people working with water ... trying to get in contact with people on the ground here, so to be offered ... volunteer health workers, they just get sent down to the ICU. After speaking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  video series intended to debunk the myth that blood is red in your arteries and blue in your veins. It's akin to a "choose your own adventure ... able to secure a spot next summer or as a class during the year, and you're

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  Political Process. Seriously though, it's really fun to take some of your own ... your dorm. Secondary to working for Admissions, of course. The basic idea ... with. There's only so many desks to work, so those tend to get filled up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  days, is what I want to do after I graduate. Lillian: You're a senior ... that your work has, and wanting to own a good chunk of the product. But I ... engineers. All my previous companies were smaller, and I wanted to get the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  calligraphy ink, and dries shiny. You’re supposed to wait a few weeks before ... my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It ... ’s house. I underpainted it pink. It looks bad, and I don’t have the time to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  attention since as a Senior Blogger I get to read your blogger applications! And also according to a recent emaill, if I don't blog, I will get fired ... to DO things, but writing is difficult. So, I have decided to write

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  you'll find yourself replying to the following email: “Get outside the ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away ... trip, I strongly encourage you to check your emails.   February

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  than he deserves, so let's try to reorganize here before anything gets ... point I'm getting to here is that this argument is clearly a far cry from ... , saying "According to Mr. Nance, everyone who is accepted is qualified, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  Hogwarts, students actually get to do practical work with potentially ... it hard to speak your mind. I'm pretty devoted to being part of the ... , so I was super-excited with the opportunity to take CMS.790, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  trying to finish up all your applications when you'd rather be hanging out ... ! Here are the most important things to keep in mind as you wrap your MIT ... teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  that I am entirely sure what that does to your body other than that it ... , make coffee, try to get into a productive mindset. Think about blogging ... window to find it was already getting dark again, and I still really haven

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  legitimate answer to the “what’s your hobby?” question (it used to be UROPs ... to different stores for different foods to get the best deals, a ... because most people aren’t taking classes. For a month, we get to catch up

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  students get so excited "they sometimes forget to eat!" 10:05am: Prof ... campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  stories. The way you make your friends is to meet and interact with people ... remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT-related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  abroad program. I figured this could be fun, getting to work somewhere cool ... the more I hung around, the more I wanted to get to know them better ... [/caption] We went out to the pub together a few times to hang out and get drinks

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  the Best Way to Make a Difference. Sadly I was unable to get him to ... Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation ... to look at the work of the D-LAB, Jameel Poverty Action Lab, One Laptop

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010