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• 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…

  

  up a global warming research center in Antarctica.” “Why ... established himself as a techie par excellence. His 6.170 team won the award for the best Gizmoball game in Fall 2005, he completed a competitive

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• 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....

  

  a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1 ... evil neighbor, a competing mollusk hunter who owns the dock’s only ... the words is irrelevant. Don't let the cyrillic stop you. Have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  We’re aware of the different academic calendar in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, and other countries in the southern hemisphere. Students from these countries may apply to MIT before completing high school…
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  on Facebook, Gchat, or Tumblr, there’s a good chance it’s from her. I ... . The next time I took a Chinese class would be at MIT - and I ended up ... classes, I have a sneaky suspicion that if I just stop using Chinese (which

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  very few undergrads (Now I'm excited a lot more of my undergrad friends ... building a database of alumni, so last day and night I spent a lot of time ... -Shyduroff, Douglas Ling, and Peter Mui. They envisioned a cross-campus event that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  There was another hack on campus this morning! This time, it would appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring the imagined animalistic avatars of some MIT courses, programs, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  Do You Do with a BA in English?") What do you do with a B.S. in econ ... I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place But somehow I can't shake The feeling I might make A difference To the human race ... the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including ... . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could be matched with a non-binding school (MIT). In this case, you may
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  that non-traditional applicants take some college courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying to brush up on their
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not ... everyone a place to go for Thanksgiving dinner, and we tell residents to feel

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  . Actually, I was never a huge fan of this band, but they produced some catchy tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand ... nevermind. 4. Kaiser. The card game. (Apparently there’s a Canadian card game

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  Wide[annotation note='Wide Tim is a whimsical student-illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... .10 might have been a C, but I'll never know - I took it on Junior-Senior P ... , which made for a frequent point of contention between me and my once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... 2003. Then one afternoon, I got a phone call. Actually, I missed a phone ... area code. Who knows it could be MIT!" I responded with a snarky remark

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... and writing a review at the end of the process. If hired as a blogger, I ... all associated anecdotes and photos. It is now May 2023. I have been a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  this is a post by my good friend aidan chambers '23 who is a physics ... certain that someone has already given a more insightful and better written ... worst experience I’ve had so far as a Physics major here. While many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free course hosted by Yale on the online learning platform Coursera. A friend from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  we invite everyone in our prospect database in a ~100 mile radius ... -Based Organizations (CBOs): visits to CBOs, which may work with students from a region ... traveled to Southern California. I spent a week driving all over the region

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014