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• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen ... had a stress-free beginning to summer. :) Picture-time~ My ... temporary housing business. So when everything converged to a single

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  teams can win up to $5,000! I spent a lot of IAP working on my website ... by opportunities to make a real impact on the world around me ... ="attachment_111599" align="alignnone" width="300"] sarah and i on our way to a wallows

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  office lady: "You can leave a note for him and I'll get him to e-mail you ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your ... were on crutches for weeks, thanks to a broken big toe. Senior year

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at ... ;   I also got to visit Kazakhstan, which is a strange, beautiful ... they have there. One of the best things about my job is I get to travel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  in? Do I have a chance to get into MIT considering the fact that I will ... get a traditional advisor? Is there any way to indicate that I want non ... 're likely to get a seminar, whether or not you are in McCormick. The same goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  , though. It took us a lot longer than we thought to get anywhere ... about if we were even halfway to the top! We finally decided to stop by a ... night, and headed home a day early. I was really happy to get home. It

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  I graduated from MIT and a year and a half after that I moved to ... house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing completion my real estate agent swung by to check on the progress.  She was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that ... observed that "your last name* maps to a rare earth element whose compounds ... wandered around for a bit to calm my nerves. Finally, I walked into my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  generate an A.I. version to replace him after he gets into an [annotation note="one of his last memories is getting knocked out by running into a ... hacks get covered by the blogs pretty often, this section is going to be

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  continued to blog and had a few other entries by another student, I believe ... the forefront. By junior year, we had created a spiffy website and I had ... a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to ... Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting ... professor in a meeting with someone  Meanwhile, get spotted by the same grad

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  passion. To be fair, MIT may have cultivated a different culture than these ... direction, I would have to continue going to boring meetings surrounded by ... (and free food), but I don’t try to get involved with them at any deeper

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  Today I got an email from MIT that directed me to a website which ... a bit annoying - can't corporations spare the two minutes to write a ... not a big picture make. In other words, there's a bigger world to enjoy

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  projects can be driven by a student’s passion and energy to explore their ... Today I'm hosting a guest post by Jade Durham '25, who — alongside ... went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very ... had a custom nametag made by Abby ’17 in which we suggested conversation ... interference to fourth-year students, and a unit on reference frames to third

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  Get a Pilot 2021 Meal Kits Plan The MIT Housing website claims this ... note: you are required to purchase a meal plan if you live in a dorm with ... undergraduate can get a meal plan regardless of where they live. The final section

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  to MIT can be a barrier for those of modest financial means or those ... attend but just want to see if they can get in). How do I know if I should request a fee waiver? Your decision to request a fee waiver is not unlike

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  I relied So, that was my lunch for a month. I used to get Anna ... Heya! So, from 7:00 PM on 7/11/05 to 7:30 PM on 8/8/05, a total of ... . So, since I used to rely a lot on eating meat with pretty much every

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  new experience. Getting fed three meals a day by Twitch Those mild ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... person I had planned to use my entire housing stipend on a very nice

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart cannot be grown by simply placing stem cells in a Petri dish. However, Ali ... Khademhosseini knew from an early age that he wanted to be a bioengineer. In fact

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007