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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  break, I decided to visit some of my Stanford friends and spend a day in ... talking to the students, however, a strange feeling of familiarity emerged ... fundraising for a project called Fuse!box, a "mobile hackerspace" designed to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  won't teach you as much about the SATs, it's a good way to get you ... discovered we have a trash chute. I took my dinner up to my room just so I ... don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a prep course, you can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... explicitly designed as such, I like to use CourseRoad as a quasi-MIT simulator

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  there any point to thinking? putting too much importance in what other people would think. i worry too much about whether my decision to choose X ... hard, but you ain't gonna need it. you're not focusing on what matters to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  If you're a regular on /r/technology, you might have seen Project Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already ... twenty sleepless hours. Project Naptha, created by my classmate Kevin K

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” ^ I'd give it an 8. Maybe ... have a fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” “[referring to ... me to take a much-needed break from writing the J-Lab paper by playing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon ... pretty easy next year and try to take a few more interesting humanities

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  those divisions to grow worse. We need to imagine a shared future together ... video, which I hope captures a bit of what it was like to actually be ... helpful and comforting to see so much of MIT come together in firm

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  that, I won't be posting quite so much. But I did want to take a moment ... . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  system into a photoluminescence imaging system to analyze the benefits of ... renewable energy is still something I want to pursue and taught me to always ... Vivian Dien Class of 2013 Materials Science and Engineering w/ a

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... forward to a mid-day cappuccino at the vending machine. Even the streets ... ourselves being send with our students to a hackathon in Barcelona. It feels

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... placed with a number and ranked according to a few decimal points. Does MIT ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  this, I still feel a deep-seated need to be seen and appreciated. I keep ... need still feels present. Is it really a need to be seen and appreciated ... a need for my work to be appreciated. So that's where I'm stuck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to ... intellectual stimulation. I didn't want college to be just a continuation of high ... above pertains only to MIT, of course. You'll find people much smarter

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  that there was a much shorter line to my left so I wandered over and sure ... me had never heard this poem! If you haven't, you need to get smart and ... campus much earlier than normal letting me have a little evening-time fun

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  body desperately needed vegetables, so I went to Brookline Lunch – a ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... Simmons Dining a measly B, I knew what I had to do over spring break – go

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

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who's teaching you a subject you are not planning to further pursue, as against the ... provided good answers to a lot of the questions about the process): The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer a pre-med program?

  classes in any department. However, students need to fulfill certain subject ... -related professions are encouraged to complete a prehealth registration meeting with ... other health profession schools each year. MIT doesn't offer a premed or
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  you have created. You do not need to send in your research poster ... MIT. How much need I shorten these essays?" In a previous entry, I ... will not be a big problem. Victor wrote, "I'm confused if we need to send

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to ... ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... limited possibilities to create sophisticated devices when used alone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005