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• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  deep applicant pool, combined with a commitment to maintaining equity ... & technology-centered education, combined with a strong humanities program, to ... In a year of record early action applications, 590 students have been

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  to a single white blood cell, lovingly known as Theodore. (Actual text ... mean, not to blame him or anything, he’s been doing a great job ... A week and a day ago, roughly 7:30 pm: Me: Hi Mom! Sorry I haven

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  name a living scientist. I wanted to help counter that a little bit by ... fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a ... some computer systems next to her and a little mini rocket.  

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But ... Upon conferrring me my black belt, my sensei also handed me a ruler

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in ... people, including those who apply to MIT, have a difficult time thinking

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  stop for questions, but a couple times students have stopped to ask him ... time to introduce the concept of the Fourier Transform, he gave a 10 ... Optimus Prime can be a truck or a robot depending on what he needs to do, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  , including (but not limited to) those from the countries affected by the ban ... tremendous strength by being a magnet for talent from around the world. More ... to the nation and the world.   I am also inspired by MIT's long

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  addition to a set of custom-designed Apple Bake mugs for the top five winners ... : the Apple Bake. This annual event celebrates fall by having the floors of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor ... we struck the glass, it would ring with a frequency identical to that ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a ... long long time ago I used my camera phone to take a picture of Katie? '10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  Venezuela to Germany without knowing a single German sentence. As a student, he could only afford to call his family once a month— a drastic change ... enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

   internship gave me an incredible opportunity to not only understand a great deal about cellular biology, but also a chance to improve my French and learn ... leishmaniasis which can be fatal. The city: Paris has a lot to offer and

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Harvard is B+/A- centered.) There is pressure to get good grades, but you ... test can give you credit) -A biology laboratory (there are couple to ... have a more biological approach while 3.091 is more applicable to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  time, that EC had to get a licensed structural engineer to sign off all ... workarounds had to be made. There is still a structure that rolls and coasts ... in Cambridge most qualified to safely construct a roller coaster in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  (3% of annual time) of winter break as a truly reliable time to relax. See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by ... *present* to you, newsfeed style, a snapshot of recent MIT festivities

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  video, which I hope captures a bit of what it was like to actually be ... United States, MIT gains tremendous strength by being a magnet for talent ... the moment demands of us The Executive Order on Friday appeared to me a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee ... MIT Club of New York proposed a mascot to President Richard Maclaurin ... To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a ... intrigue, mysticism, and references to the classics. Is it a little corny ... announced, I found myself excited by the concept: sentient cities? A fantasy

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before, however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in ...   Earlier this month, here at ETH, we had our spring break a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... get a job to help pay for school, on top of doing a lot of great things ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015