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• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions, including the one written above. Rather than asking applicants to ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has ... Boston (#37), but I have yet to earn my pirate's license (#64). I recently got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  decided that I'm just going to write about everything I'm interested in. Which is everything, including all the dry details that'll be boring to anyone but me. I'm granting you the permission to skip every section that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  -Spain) but she was in a meeting. On my way to my advisor's office I waved to a ... scheduled, waving an awkward hello to the first of the ex-boyfriends as we ... that person frantically waving her arms in the air, volunteering to take

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  Pakistan as undergraduates? I really want to know the numbers to calculate ... It's time to answer more questions... You should know that writing up ... answers are brief, but I hope that by publishing answers to all of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  resources to help MIT faculty and students move their ideas from the lab to ... researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... going wrong—I try my best to sit down, contemplate, and then write until I have arrived upon the actions I need to take to put my life back together

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  require frequent missions to deliver fuel, food, and spare parts. Two MIT professors have created a software tool to model interplanetary supply chains ... ://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=6275565 3/26/07: An MIT doctoral student studies how addicted people are to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• 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.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding ... section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  this picture, with the necklace as my tassel, as a wave to the Nisha of ... wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very serious, but I considered them all quests that I was determined to achieve

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... ...). I probably won't take my SLR to snap away clickclickclick during lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  field and Harvard decided to nuke us to free the sun and then we had to ... > how to calculate t-test values for small data sets and determine whether ... separate drafts before I decided to make my roommates Fatima and Nora do the

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  there are always tons of great options to choose from. But sometimes ... ] 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

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Thursday, 10/26, 7-9pm EDT. That's over now, but you're welcome to email me ... 't promise to get to them soon, but I'll try my best. For reference, I've done ... to talk about more than just The Process. Every college is different

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  Many months ago, I broke my water bottle cap. I tried to find a ... stickers on this one that I refuse to throw out. Apparently H2GO is a brand that exclusively does corporate swag, so if I wanted to buy one, I'd have

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most daunting challenges. From addressing the energy needs of tomorrow to ... the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to ... education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement ... requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... . Unfortunately, this semester also turned out to be rather less exciting for me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  returning to Boston in waves on Sunday. I was in the first wave, and per the ... The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... compelled to follow, including one that implored us to refrain from using

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010