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• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  ? You only have room for a couple of activities, some may have to be dropped, which will they be? On MIT's application you'll have to remember ... admissions wants to see is a dangerous dangerous game to play. You need to be a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  the scattered light wasn't there. Researchers already have ways to ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  crufty alums being around in the last serveral days, in part to various ... 't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... -liberal-in-a-red-state part. It's probably the closest thing I had to really being part of a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the ... delight slip by. Every day, I do my best to squeeze as much joy as I can out ... ’ll be grateful for always trying to start off my day well.  Also

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a ... wondered how it would feel to be back. The cliché goes that "home is where ... I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  a student was unable to complete a course by the end of the semester ... opportunity to turn in late work by an assigned date. Upon completion of the ... 's most amazing ways to get involved with international development. Last

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  and dignity. *To be perfectly clear, I don't want to discuss the merits ... special meeting for our class council to discuss what action should now be ... sent a link to a Google Docs spreadsheet where we were supposed to fill

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  meantime, I just have to tell myself that I'll be okay and I will find a way ... , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... ’ll finally be on the right track to succeed in my classes, I keep banging into

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  ;Haacke deliberately designs his ‘systems’ to “evolve in time and be ... has to do with the ways in which forces of nature are systems. The ... [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  - trying to formulate some expectations about the city that I would be ... classes since the first semester of senior year, and to be honest, my high ... Floor on the Left - also! in Spain, what we consider to be the "first

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  about how campaigns like these honor MIT's commitment to diversity by ... more," he said, "It's getting past the point of saying it's okay to be ... whom one might not initially consider to be allies. Not only was Abigail

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for the class I was teaching. Which, by the way, is not a bad final project

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i ... , start-to-finish, all the way through: melodrama, pieces in space, funeral ... comes from being a long-distance family, scheduling video calls to catch

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A TRIPLE RAINBOW Prof. Durand: By the way, human color ... discounts, which in turn could be acquired through coupons provided by that ... is going to be so fun! And then we had Matlab assignments. *I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  Transcripts must be sent in by your school counselor or another school representative to fulfill our requirements for an official ... transcript while we are waiting for your official transcript to be submitted
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  to act like a tourist, but after that you have to pretend to be a jaded ... going to march to Charlestown by land, or they were going to go via the ... skating rink in the winter. By the time we got to Frog Pond, it felt really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  accepted, I will be travelling with a group of about 30 students to Detroit ... teams have had to cancel their plans. Nonetheless, being on a varsity team ... to be doing it on someone else’s dime. Traveling can help you learn

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  classes. A good way to study for them is by using the materials (lectures ... labs. I'm sure there'll be more CPW-related entries later; try to make it ... over to the Bush Room to join several other MIT students in calling youuu

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  ’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... , in between classes and p-sets, it seems to be all I want to do, and at ... learning more about the kind of storyteller I want to be, the kind of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014