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• 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 / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from ... interview? A: You can find your interviewer's information by logging in to ... get in touch with them, as it may take them several days to respond to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  tank. It got infested with fruit flies, and we had to get it fumigated ... Loan Art Program allows MIT students (and only MIT students) to borrow ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch ... [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP ... I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  talk to one another via chemical signals. One neuron gets excited, and ... molecule tag to other proteins, causing them to be degraded by the cell). So ... you get your bachelor's degree, are you required to get you master's and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my ... '07 all came by to ask for my signature on their nomination forms. (They

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  tend to be less undergraduate-heavy, populated primarily by researchers ... fascinated by retro tech and games (any Pico-8 fans in the chat), so I had to ... ="600"] they had some actual Commodore 64 computers there!!! I need to get

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  students, by the way), so hopefully you can get another entry to this effect ... more than a bachelor's degree to get a chemistry- or biology ... are looking for work to get a feel for industry, then planning to return

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  process is that we don’t as admissions officers get to meet each of you personally but instead only get to know you by what you and others write about ... Not surprisingly, you all seem to be the most interested about how

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  to illustrate our culture is by what we do, so here's a glimpse of just ... ;feature=youtu.be Freshman DTYD Hacks: Each year, freshman class gets to promote the party with ... meeting to decide shirt names, and it’s a lot of fun since you get to learn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  fastest way to get from Building 2 to E25? At the same time, too, there was ... show you; 2) yes — go to the closet and get another roll and it will pop ... Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10 ribs. We were stuffed by the time we got to rib #7. After dumping my ... Spinning Arts exec meeting at 5pm, [annotation note="time for people to get

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  least one language and to get some good projects under my belt. Here are ... I've learned in 6.01 and to get down some more Python concepts so that ... workshop taught by Microsoft on how to program games using Unity. Then as the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose ... Valley with a population over 4,000 students. How did you get to MIT? I ... shouldn’t be able to get into a top school too. So in 10th grade, MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  getting me to where I am today. At the very least, it was the source of ... strangest details remain. We don’t get to choose what moments we forget, and which we get to keep. Even those that are stored in some nook or cranny in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  because it's hard to get your brain together when you're in panic mode. So ... home to get food so I'd remember to eat. I then went home and put on real ... , try to finish that night (Did not finish - will finish by end of weekend

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough ... ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results ... would have to create a module based on this paper by writing introductory

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  , who have to get up at absurd times. left to my own devices, I would ... to get ready, dashing across campus as quickly as possible to arrive at ... morning further of whatever charms it used to have. By every account, this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a ... physics major who accidentally took enough theoretical math classes to get a ... . Sometimes, frustration begs to be cartoonified. Inspired by Professor

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009