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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  : If we don't have any alumni in your area and your interview is waived ... prepare for the interview: Review the ways in which you spend your time ... seen any part of your application and are not interested in your grades

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close ... contracting work”), but they didn’t really believe in it enough to follow up on it. Then one day, Robert happened to be in Chinatown and was walking by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  (Head Honcho of the Bloggers and Senior Counselor for Web Communications ... chain of links and tweets that eventually ended up in my inbox which I ... media, on giving laptop computers to the poorest children in the most

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  . Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle ... and all around campus. The frame is welded from scrap he found in his ex ... him today! I stuck around because I was configuring a web server and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a ... it all in one sitting, while documenting it with pictures / videos and posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to avoid flooding in nonapocalyptic scenarios, is almost certain to lose ... before I left, I set up a webcam in the office, looking out over Killian

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that ... /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the ... tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  lot of feelings about web design, and user interfaces in general, and I ... I’m also interested in math-related things that aren’t directly math ... ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  -scholastic" has been causing some confusion, based on web comments and phone calls. In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... about putting an award in the "wrong" section, as there really is no best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists ... been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking busily, people running around in lab coats with clip boards, and caution

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... Blanco and Slocum. Professor Blanco was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. He studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological ... , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... and bathe in the (metaphorical) blood of my enemies — well, you get the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  considered me a friend taking time to check in on me. Another common thing I seem to hear alongside these check-ins are "I don't know a Cami without ... last night's blogger check-in that I literally broke the November rule

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  Society In 11.c35, we worked in teams to create a web-based “visualization ... classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... debates, and apart from those questions being very… relevant in recent

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short ... talks. This terrified my roommates and me because we thought we were in trouble, when in reality, they were just making sure my dumb self hadn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  If you follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or (god forbid) LinkedIn, you ... [judgment] is in brackets, meaning it isn’t part of the original quote. From ... actually went. Me: “A good rule of thumb [in choosing jobs that will not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  of 9 externs at Brain Power, 3 in Web Development, 3 in Product ... We spent our IAPs in two different states, for the second time. We ... interested in, but are not sure if you want to pursue. Or, it’s also great for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  collaborated on with universities in several countries. It has a basic web ... In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together ... intentionally by taking eight classes a semester so they can graduate in two years

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  pages in this web site.” (MechE site) My concentration is in Biomedical ... the final steps in the long journey that is the medical school ... in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... — have found meaning in these books too. You may be encountering this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019