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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or ... important thing: You're going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now ... pressures to comMIT. It may not feel like it if you get deferred or rejected

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by ... DNA finally gets into the nucleus where it can be expressed. Sid says

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  1. So my sister bought me a bike. It's a used bike, but it's still ... from campus as you can possibly get. She rode it over last night and locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  a month ago, and I couldn't get myself to edit it. But now - I ... . #2 - Exercise and sleep are corequisites to sanity. #3 - It is possible ... to the South Station bus terminal. Went through Newbury Street. It was

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline ... whether to submit it as it currently is, though. If your answer is so long ... 've provided answers to some additional FAQs: The deadline is January 1, meaning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  a part of the body that is not used to it. same thing if the ground is ... good news is: the boy did not break (in fact it was not close to breaking ... everyone). however, it is easy to do this wrong. it is easy to hit the ground

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  can't wait to use these!) When we first showed up I was assigned to ... the 3rd floor of building 35 you ask? Well there used to just be a ... 's this class at MIT that designs toys, have you heard of it? It's hard to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  useful, but every entry has a flavor of MIT to it and, when looked at as a ... pamphlet-creating admissions officers can't convey. MIT does its best to ... 'm free to post whatever I want. When I push "Publish" it goes onto the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  This Crummy Place, and Trying to Escape This Crummy Place. I can't find ... things and am quite alright leaving it to the experts. I feel really bad ... Monologues. I'd never seen it, but it's pretty famous so I was excited to do

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  open to it. It's 11:44 am right now and there are 24 hours and 30 minutes ... thoughts, you'll become more illuminated in 84 topics. That can be useful no ... to not only ways I can cause change on a large scale, but also within

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  Enabled Active Learning). Basically it's supposed to be super ... love it. It makes me feel like I'm on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" or ... pretty cool, to be good at math. I hear that's sort of useful around here

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  coded before, they can use the resources that MIT provides for free to ... included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... reach of MIT and its relationship to the world  Connect to the rest of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  think it’s interesting and useful to learn about policies that have been ... it would be weird to use this platform to promote [annotation note ... cozy little apartment. But also, I hate Zoom and can’t wait to delete it

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  blog. So instead, we decided to post the audio to Soundcloud, so you can listen to it whenever and however you like. I listen to a lot of podcasts and radio shows, and used to run one for my college newspaper, so it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  condensed it to a 8-page report? Where can I add it in the MIT application ... to tell about sth you created!) Can I send it online?" I do think this ... recommend to everyone. (I think it's run by ESG, but anyone can take it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  [annotation note="we bought a big can and froze ice cubes of it to use one by one ... then have to clean it up, and even just buying all the ingredients can ... ,[/annotation]and two people I can coerce into helping me! It's the perfect time to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do ... stuff, if you're a budding engineer or inventor, what can you do? It's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or ... sense. (Even though Ben, humble as always, is quick to say that God is far ... floor. Tina suggested, "Give it to someone you don't like!" Upon which Ben

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  your time as a precious gift, and use it to its fullest extent. I know ... -changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college ... program to a high school junior? What was great (or not so great) about it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  , in this case Chris Su - met to choose new bloggers who will be joining the team for the coming year. It was an incredibly tough job to do ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010