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• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the ... the idea that parents need to lighten up. "Just as you've changed and ... when I told them I was applying to Wellesley and Yale. "But I thought you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will ... and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  's Writing and Humanistic Studies department. Dr. Boiko wanted to tell me about ... about our students—how interesting they tend to be and how interesting ... student, I too found MIT's writing and literature courses to be among the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  . To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and ... democratization and governance in China. Given that I'm a twig, it never ceases to ... to think about options. Enough about me, though, and onto the blog. I

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  Center -- I took someone here to see Jon Stewart perform, and I have yet to ... Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet, seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  students began to act. Within a couple of days, mailing lists and discords ... student who wanted to help plan events, donate, and support current efforts ... This is, admittedly, a kind of quickly written post, but I wanted to

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  have to do is go to http://mit.gocrosscampus.com and login to play on MIT's campus tournament! So have some fun, get closer to your dorm-mates and ... turns into the game and I thought it would be appropriate to fill you guys

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  nineteen, and my friends took me out to dinner at the Border Café, followed by ice cream at Ben & Jerry's, and refused to let me pay. I ... , and to generally figure my life out. I remember the hacks: the purple

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  Our applicants come from all over the world and from many different educational backgrounds. You should choose a college that will offer rigorous ... and extracurricular opportunities in your areas of interest. In other
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  rush. This means feasts and festivity. Festivities like poetry slams, strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  weather is changing in my knees. Also I'm cranky and like to talk about the ... to studying aging, its effects, and how it can be better understood ... , engineers, marketing, planners, architects, packaging engineers, and others to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  convenient and easily accessible form of defense. Some are oblivious to the ... day and already some strange things are appearing around campus. Have you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  blogger application, to finally take on this vlogging challenge. I will be vlogging every day of April and trying to release videos somewhat on time ... I was inspired by Ceri's take on VEDA and partly by my long

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  undergraduate, she made sure to take time to explore our campus and enjoy the ... 5 chiral centers and takes about 2 weeks to produce at only about a 50 ... The Class of 2007 walked across the stage last Friday, and among the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  our hypothesis, and then have to explain against biological framework ... turn! So this semester, I took Quantitative Physiology I: Cells and ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  time to do everything I wanted, like ice skating club and Origami Club ... Nations and Medlinks… Well, I’m sorry to say that that belief was shattered ... lucky ones get put into a folder to be re-read and noted later. (Most don

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value ... , which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or ... 'd advise you to be strategically nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  best options to help and respond. If you have specific questions, please ... traveling outside the United States and you wish to return to campus, we ... received this email from mit administration sometime yesterday: To

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  and an excuse to eat with your hands. 544 Tremont St. Boston, MA T ... MIT iGEM team, was on his way to eat with some friends at a new (for him) restaurant. Summer is a time where students find even more time to explore

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... students and faculty, but when I clicked on your website's link to its ... get me everywhere I needed to go, and to an extent, it did. This turned

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014