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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  sort it (so you would return 2, 3, 4, 14, 17,19), your ability to do this ... influenced by the majority votes. I don’t intend to delve into my specific and ... ice-cream company and you’re trying to figure out if you should roll out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  freshman applying to internships. I also want to preface this post by saying it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... stop wanting to. Not ‘some way to get rid of him’ - but a way to stop trying. Not ‘some way to save my child’ - but a way to lose your fear.” i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... 's like a house google doc, but better :) G - To-Buy List This was a bit

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  lab comes from your checkoff, which you can complete by going to an open ... semester, so I doubled up this semester in order to get on track to complete ... I’m glad to be getting the foundational knowledge needed for some

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  get a full ride. The best way to get a full ride at OSU is by being a ... , precisely, one goes about getting into MIT. My first response is generally to ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you're

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... ? It's always a good idea to contact the coach for your sport if you are ... needed to. On collegeboard.com's website, there is an option to send scores

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about ... -December. Yesterday, we thought to ourselves, “so what should we blog about now ... consuming some content lately that has brought us joy, so we decided to make a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and ... allows you to get the rest of your life in order first. And, most ... major disruptions outside your control. We try to be as flexible as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  lord, applying to jobs SUCKS. If you're not getting a referral or an "in ... 't think for a second that you're guaranteed to get in or stand a better ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  worm - not bad eh? Not to get into the science too much here, but the ... as a model to see what these genes actually do by knocking them out in ... biology methods to look at resulting protein expression, gene levels, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... excuses, and this Thanksgiving trip was the catalyst I needed to get started ... driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  company names). Now, I’m a junior, so the Career Fair is starting to get a ... whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... . International company: You’ll be working on your own, but be prepared to work in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what ... Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... between 750-800 if 15%. It means that those students whom we chose to admit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  catfished by a hotel online only to discover you may not survive the night) before heading over to Level99. Level99 was created/founded/birthed by the ... independent individual, so I was excited to see what Boston felt like from this

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  back to Ghana sooner...” he said, “once people get married or have ... bent, so grows the tree’. Teach small kids how to do things, and by the ... papers, how to follow scientific methods and conduct quality research. He

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this ... that was free. During January, ESP was asked to clear out the room where

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  worth at least 18,000 words so let's get started right away no time to ... star when we're trying to get home. The hangar is the big thing that ... sun rises at 6am sets at 8:30pm. You can get a tan sitting in your room

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  smiled up at her as I struggled to get back on my feet and cheekily replied ... initial plan was to dance to Make Me Feel by Janelle Monae. It had just come ... we finally stumbled on Magnets by Lorde/Disclosure, it felt too good to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  'm starting to be recognized linguistically and culturally by the Chinese ... version of Facebook really helps). How did your time at MIT contribute to ... me to enter saying "I know you'll at least get 3rd place" and I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013