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• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: Sign up for SAT Subject Tests SAT Subject Test registration deadline is April 28.

  

  registering is April 28th. We suggest that when you register, you list MIT to receive your scores. Our College Board Code is 3514. We don't require that ... your science class -- is still fresh in your mind. And this also allows

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  CPW... our preview weekend is nothing like the "Hearst College ... . For one thing, the weekend is not planned out for you, it's more of a ... span of 4 days!). And, while there will be parties, CPW is a 100% dry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I ... shots around this joint. The sort of puzzling thing is that nothing that ... 't necessarily understand -- I mean, really, how superficial is that? I think what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  about research he said, "The one thing all the sciences have in common is ... bipartisan President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. He is married to the economist Nancy Rose, who is my 14.20: Industrial Organization

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  years back (its site is now home to Novartis Institutes for Bio ... , however, is still made just off MIT's campus, and it is a nice treat to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  dark chocolate, which apparently is less than 55% cocoa -- wimpy! We ... concentrated (85% and 99%) pieces. Organization is key. Like the characters ... sell for Valentines Day. Naturally, this year is no different! Please

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  know that not every single person who reads this blog is necessarily ... will cook only main dishes. This is what I plan to do when I grow up. I ... want to be happy Here's what I submitted in third grade. This one is in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  minds, and the early action deadline about a week away, I figure this is a ... things happen, like when your school is shut down by a hurricane, your home is destroyed by an earthquake, a close relative passes away, or other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is pretty cool. What's even cooler is that these professors actually teach ... 2004. This year, one of the TA's for that class is Wolfgang Ketterle

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  . The most basic building element is a point-like particle, which has ... directly manipulate and assemble them. One of the few such tools is optical ... pressure is just the momentum imparted to an object from light. Basically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  schedule!) Needless to say, it's pretty awesome. Tonight is our one night off ... - what I didn't know is that everyone else is thinking about the same

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... he added, "The cost of sequencing is dropping enough that this is no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  't missed an episode ever and this is season 4. 6) I can't believe I'm going ... watch is The OC. Damn it, I love The OC. It's like Beverly Hills 90210 ... OC... yeah, I know. Okay this post is over. < slinks away in shame

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  " with the rest of the office is already pretty good. Go instinct! I was ... is completely true: we are indeed looking for human beings in every ... 's incredibly refreshing to see that the rest of the office is inspired by it too

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  undergraduate Special Students program is closed except for a very limited number ... invited by an academic department as a Visiting Student. There is no central ... must invite you to their lab to engage in research. If there is a
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  Colombian restaurant near the Boston Logan Airport. Punto Rojo is quite far ... went to Veggie Galaxy for brunch. Veggie Galaxy is a traditional American diner on Mass Ave near MIT, with the twist that everything they serve is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  alarm. 11:28 — This alarm is louder. I start blinking. 11:29 — Another ... totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... doesn’t get stolen. In the darkness, I hear whispering sounds. Is it just

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  January, of course, is IAP. "Independent Activities Period" is a deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... Frisbee". Is it art? A joke? Is it even funny? Hard to tell. But now we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  them. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro This is my favorite book I ... that something is wrong, that the narrator’s own model of their world is ... denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025