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• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  surgeon. In his senior year of college, he decided to take the MD-PhD route ... simultaneously (!) Armed with the skill of ambidexterity, he was well on his way to ... contribute to the evolution of MIT. He thinks that MIT is “true to itself

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  you a different sort of feeling. I hope that I will be able to use some of these experiences next year when I return to MIT to make my time there more productive. Of course, you are all trying to decide whether

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  of you who haven’t – well, I’m about to tell you about it :) Camp ... a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we ... decent and not-sketchy job of describing this; please feel free to question

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  ; *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Action deadline of November 1! I'd like to use this entry to answer ... /Docufide to submit letters of evaluation and transcripts, your school can send

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  best part of graduating and moving to California has been connecting with ... -up lines. Thanks to all of the meaningful things that nearby alums are up to ... a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... predict which it will be. So, I cling to whichever edge of the path I choose ... what to buy, and where things are located. I inspect a bag of clementines

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  as being analogous to OpenCourseWare, featuring research instead of ... an innovative collection of online educational resources meant to help ... of a meat locker? What ever happened to energy conservation?), when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and ... . There you will see the name of your EC and the best means to contact them ... you--a couple of days at least before you begin to worry. They are busy

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  . Have I gained an ounce of sanity? Not really. Will I continue to obsess ... desire to leave. You wake up with them and the thought of getting out of ... perfectly captures your emotions and forces you to reminisce on the love you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  fashion class. Stick a solar panel to your shirt next time you dream of ... of all that it's about time to start juggling psets and ... . And of course, thank you to the MIT Office of the Arts and their Arts

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  , or Bookstore. Which of these three am I going to talk about? Well, I ... was pronounced Co-op (rhymes with low hop). I got to MIT and all of a ... into the bookstore, getting a refund at the end of the year equal to 7

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around ... —although I only actually roll out of bed when the blazing sun heats my room to ... why that is. Maybe it’s the environmental contrast. Maybe it’s force of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  English and Amharic, so it was nice for me to review a little bit of my ... Peter Singer: I think this quote cuts to the core of the book: “if it is ... sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  what choices students should make to help their chances of coming to MIT ... choices: high school seniors are choosing where they are going to college (we just finished hosting Campus Preview Weekend to help our admitted

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it ... time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i go to, and where the bus stops are, and there are a couple

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to ... like I was developing a sense of myself. That fall, I applied to a bunch of SLACs and state colleges in New England...and also to the College of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my window, but my daily schedule forces me to face the elements. In the early ... dying breaths, the vibrant foliage of October has yet to come -- the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to have all of ... To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... take loads of advanced courses because to them gaining knowledge is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the ... . Therefore, I would like to ask you what you think my next course of action ... applicants? I know it says you are required to live on campus in one of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was ... there, because that's one of the requirements for us to just physically be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016