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• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Mateo, we’re at booth I22. If you’re around, feel free to stop by! It ... built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  enough to require shade, so I moved from tree to tree as the clouds shifted. I watched professors walk by, canvas messenger bags at their hips, wrinkled button-downs. In the time intervals uninterrupted by traffic, the

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... through the air, i’d stand by my window all day and whisper comfort to ... too much for me to handle. and i’m hoping, how i’m hoping, that you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at ... time to apply to graduate school. Favorite MIT event: Rush! Free food, seeing your friends for the first time after the summer, and helping a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  Inspired by Ceri's Dear July  Dear July,   You are special this ... precedes certainty – at least for now.   You brought us work ... wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Happy New Year! I hope you guys are having a great 2008 so far. Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... of EA admits from last year's 390 to this year's 522. Fear not, we have

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  modest person so I don't want to embarass him by saying how FREAKING ... MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  In 10th grade, I read a book by the biologist Edward O. Wilson and ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  piece for y'all about his journey here at MIT. Enjoy! When I applied to ... interesting project - to build a sound localization device (ears) for her robot ... by spending that summer setting up a computer lab for a primary school

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  dumplings.I finished grading some problem sets for 6.0002 (Introduction to ... (!) on North Court for the first time since fall.I went to a [annotation ... to take home for a week before I return to campus in June. [Friday 5

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• 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 ... for you. I have spoken to my friends who have been through the ... reputation for preparing you well! Also, you have to take the Medical College

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

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  cheating, etc.). You haven't changed yourself for the sake of getting into ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general ... , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer housing for transfer students?

  Yes—transfer students are guaranteed on-campus housing for their entire undergraduate education! Learn more on the MIT Housing & Residential Services site.
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the ... all the way back to our room, and went to sleep, preparing for another ... and CPW--if you'll be on campus for CPW and want to meet up, email me

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel ... rendition of Simmons Hall is to the real one. ArchNewsNow   But do ... something to personalize their room, and they're all very creative in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  on writing!) to compare a bunch of genetic sequences. For three hours ... I've been trying to pick up a martial art for quite some time - there really is no time like IAP for doing those things you never seem to find

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter ... a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1 ... , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Your college application motivational soundtrack for January patience, young grasshoppers

  

  College apps are done! You did it! You'll probably never have to ... waiting. And we know - it's a ton of waiting. So to make the waiting slightly more tolerable, we made another playlist for y'all! Enjoy :) https

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  profits from his NGO to fuel this expansion and establish a fund for ... ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set ... ’s going to sink fastest because of it?” I couldn’t argue

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  category, this is an open forum for you to talk. ... most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010