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• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  publications, as well as being the token #millenial on our social media. One

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  on Capitol Hill for two days. Two days were enough to learn that things here unfold on VERY SHORT TIMESCALES. Yesterday, for example, we learned ... a museum of home. The first thing I notice is an MIT flag on the wall

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... on our own identities and learn critical concepts to navigate gender ... Destruction, ProPublica's story on Machine Bias, Joy Buolamwini's video "AI, Ain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  Math words, but not the math part. Yes, I can nerd on about math, but ... vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when ... titled “I am not Zorn’s Lemma”, and it made this play on how you can count

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  . There were a few giant red flags on the first day. I won't go into all of ... ; later on, I saw that one of the founders departed from the company under ... internship on the second day.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  HYPERfine question, for reasons that will become clear as you read on ... volunteered to step in for her. 8pm. I stood on the badminton court, racket in ... spontaneous tutoring session The debate started at 9, so I turned on the TV

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder ... Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on ... will: I am currently living on a Navajo reservation, forty miles from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  -Fun-Times (although I’m working on getting that changed). Let me preface this story ... -games-I’ve-played-are-Frogger-and-Oregon-Trail n00b. As in, the-only-programming-experience-I-have-is-using-the-“Store”-function-on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  -issue. However, there are a few freshman doubles on every hall. In these, the beds ... norm. Over in Matt's blog, there was a question about why MIT is on the ... beautiful. The gestalt effect of all the murals painted on a hall or floor, or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... show's creators center the plot development on her trying to get with the ... teens who get perfect scores on their PSAT's and participate in a host of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• 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 / Personal Travel

  clownazoo tetazoans in the wild

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 3, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change?

  . Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is MIT's response
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the droids you’re looking for (on Pi Day) beep boop boop BEEEEEP

  

  be available online on Monday, March 14, 2016, beginning at 6:28 PM ET ... use our automated system to reset it. Visit MyMIT and click on the forgotten username or password links beneath the login box on the left.  

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... here on Thursday, April 8th, at 4PM; a recording will be made available ... for ending the evolving pandemic, an Institute-wide webinar on Thursday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  airplane tires stacked on top of each other and covered in glass. Meeting ... tickets and luggage…a lot of forecasting based on data and calculated assumption.” There was also analysis on card purchases made on Volaris

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! It's time to You might be wondering, “What’s next?” Well, [annotation note="or now depending on when you see this"]later today,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on what’s next, so be on the look

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring Break! A little guessing game.

  

  At approximately 9.30 pm on Thursday night, Spring Break will begin. I leave for (blank) on Saturday. Anyone want to guess where I'm going ... for Spring Break, I'd definitely be down there working on 2.007) Hint #2

  • by Bryan
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly ... -In program this fall, we’re reflecting on the incredible success of our ... STARS Ambassadors and I met the visiting students on the first evening and

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025