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• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  inside the oven. You want your rack to be sitting in a shallow pool of oil ... getting it to coat evenly, add a little more barbecue sauce to thicken (but ... through the Kresge BBQ pits on my way to Burton Connor. Grab a hamburger to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  redesigning the device. "We were having a really hard time getting fluid to flow ... currently developing a bioreactor that may potentially be used to accelerate ... tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  countryside to escape the Boston bubble for a few days. I’m in a club called ... my state, is a must-visit attraction if you’re near North Carolina in ... who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) A ten year ... to let your dreams TAKE FLIGHT What does it mean to be an admissions ... admissions authentically, but we can’t write about what it’s like to live in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type ... straight-laced personality was exposed to a weekend of epic proportions. One

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... . Or in laymen's terms, I get to break stuff in lab =). It's fascinating ... schedule this term so lets get to it. (classes are arranged chronologically

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  and it has huge, huge potential.  In a nutshell: siRNA (short ... you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green ... working.  And if there ever comes a time when there are no lights on in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say goodbye to. Friends that I couldn’t get a hold of before leaving campus ... guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer transfer credit?

  your academic record doesn't appear to merit credit in a certain subject, you may be allowed to demonstrate that you're entitled to such credit by ... If you're admitted, you can expect to receive credit for subjects of
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  , took a trip to Cape Cod, ate our weight in free food and got to raid one ... . Teenagers in Scotland can get hold of booze so long as they have a tall ... I say to the under-21s in Scotland: don’t be too scared of a drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you ... . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt). There

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  in reality. Sidequests: 5/10. To be fair, sidequesting on a brutal ... of annoying to have to redo a bunch of skills in [annotation note ... despite having worked in the industry for two summers in a row. Occasionally

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  around your touch. We made sure to take a look at more MIT projects ... to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming ... want, which in most cases involves your favorite t-shirt and jeans, and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  to. A few months later, I declared a major in physics, and indicated ... that they do in fact believe I ought to become a professional astronomer ... that, in which (according to Alan) the universe expanded at a mind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  Leatherman in your pocket?) and I supported the window with a knee and both ... until I found a way to get back into the hallway. After receiving ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full ... I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the ... expect to see first quarter grades. If we need them, we'll call your school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  define myself in a world where it grows increasingly harder to figure ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  rock: Last week-end, I went with some friends to a boring little town in ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of ... computer shop party in a parking building. I took a lot of pictures, but it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... , I started keeping a daily blog; a sort of space to vent about the past ... ="I watched physics presentations and travelled to a debate tournament

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  can get a little crowded! When your folder is complete -- all of the ... Officers get locked in a dungeon and cannot come out until all of the ... question first. No, you're not in trouble if your materials haven't yet shown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008