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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  to Ruth '07's column from last week. Two people complimented me on my column earlier today. One of whom I don't think I've ever met before. Does ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  's time to look elsewhere." Outside of the lab, Vivek enjoys playing on the ... surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... Engineering and Computer Science, has worked on this project for two and a half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  negative impact on your chances of admission. ... one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the ... currently on our campus who felt the same way before their dream became a reality. The mission of the MIT Institute Community & Equity Office
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT prefer public school or private school?

  every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school ... MIT. Matt McGann, former Director of Admissions, wrote a great blog about public/private schools years ago that's still relevant today: On
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What support is available for LBGTQ students?

  students. MIT and its surrounding communities offer a broad array of ... , welcoming communities on campus willing to answer questions for current MIT ... campaign has a great list of resources available to students as well.
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both ... many passion indicators - but I emphasize one of many. When I was on the ... thrive on challenge. Most of our admits have taken AP math and science

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or ... nights on campus spent tooling. By the end of the week though, it's clear ... sets in. Your beard has grown on you (hurr hurr hurr), and the two of you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  -what-awesome-thing-happened-to-me-lately!” theme of this blog post. Life at MIT is awesome, but on a fundamental ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... bombing one of them could bring my score down almost irreparably. So while

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  up on your MyMIT tracking page. If you think one of your missing ... (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6.0001 the normal way and exact my revenge on the placement test that had wronged me. I took it freshman fall on Pass/No Record, and I passed. The

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  webcasting the event live on campus too. The subtitle of this entry was also ... campus on Friday doesn't mean he'd have a better chance of being admitted ... You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of ... steps!” Though not inherently obvious, they are words of wisdom. They are also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of ... word play on the French language word hommes, meaning men), have been

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... closing in on me. Internally, my creation is often propelled by a feeling of ... completion. Incredibly, despite all of this - my internal reliance on making

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  's just a bunch of stories told, handed on. That's not what this means. What ... 're supposed to focus on what it is that we're wanting to move towards instead of ... wanted to spend money on; i think my pursuit of wealth was more about fear

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  . It wasn't too tricky, and a lot of it was based on common sense, like ... thinking, but I chose a clear acrylic to laser cut on. I was the last of the ... Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  got to know at MIT and they've been nothing less of a second family on ... this sticker from some booth on campus my freshman year. One of two ... only sticker on here that I snagged from one of the MIT career fairs. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021