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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it ... admissions blog, I'm gonna extend this a bit to rant about this pervasive idea that you have to go to an Ivy or a Stanford or an MIT in order to become

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’t started the assignment by 10pm and had to cancel my quick nap when he ... I, I was drawn to the class by the lab component (three hours on ... engineers to meet their architect comrades). While some of the concepts are a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  using their talents and abilities to actually making a difference in the ... listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  question: What is liveblogging? The answer: (according to Wikipedia) a ... the bloggers used to do more often on MITAdmissions. Essentially, like a ... sounded really cool to me, and when better a time to try liveblogging than

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  . And now, here's a cute little something to brighten your day ... video, Challenges at the Office, was produced by a alum friend of mine ... entry, I'd really appreciate it if you took a moment to vote for it online

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of ... a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen ... try to justify my ignorance by saying that I'm not really that dumb, he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  one of the coolest project classes at MIT. I'll be sure to make a post about this later (: 2.671: Go Forth and Measure- A class about how to ... anything...) Since I'm a visual person, I drew this little photo to explain

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Louisiana. Some of you may be willing/able to attend a different meeting; if ... - this blog, kept by a local New Orleans reporter, is a great primary ... been affected by this - this tragedy has been on my mind every waking

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  platelets congregate to repair the cut by creating a clot. What you may not know is that this process is facilitated by the formation of a mesh made ... that prevents you from bleeding to death after a measly paper cut

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  -dish pizza in Chicago while listening to a special performance by the MIT ... check it out – they’re a great opportunity to meet some potential future ... Swinging by the Big Apple this weekend? Come to one of our largest admitted

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most ... love the word nerd, I was quick to post a reply that said something about nerd pride and it being a badge of honor to be called a nerd in my book

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this ... am unlikely to see a castle built for me anytime soon!) While big

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  first three weeks of IAP, making for a nice 5-week vacation away from ... 's going to be at least one team with a dozen or so admitted members of the ... week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  Tube until eventually moving on to another project. Months went by until one ... message cast down by Petey of the Blogs had been a sign-- a sign that it was ... proceeded to…well…post a blog? And, that's it. I think we all learned

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part. If you did not submit
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  a Man friend who related to a lot of these points, which makes me ... knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier ... unprompted emails. The first one was to a [annotation note="I lost my silver

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals—it was practically a requirement to live in the small town ... overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  migrating back to campus, stopping by a bookstore-cafe and a riverside ... -back, followed by a third on Thursday. I would say that I’ll blog about the result ... remedy this, by leading a nomadic study caravan around the city, starting

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like ... simpler now. pika held a zine-making workshop the other night as part of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  simply too strong to resist.  There ended up being a small handful of ... [annotation note="a yummy flatbread"]naan,[/annotation] which also happens to be ... demo was my first exposure to computer vision and deep learning, and a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021