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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Plains.) Kevin McCarthy is on his way to losing a sixth ballot. It seems ... that it is exciting to see something concrete reinforce a fact we usually ... the places this train must go on its way to California is Reno, NV. As

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... . Intro to French Culture is like a history class taught in French. It ... wish good luck and tell to try not to worry TOO much because it really

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back to his room with him to see his hydraulic door. To this day he insists 1) that it didn't happen and 2) if it did happen, his intentions were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  carted it all out to the floor lounge, where lots of people gathered to sit ... MIT is hard. Seriously. That's why we have study breaks. I know that sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a ... MIT, I appreciate the most is the diversity. I guess it might be because

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... 6.081 (Introduction to EECS 1). Course 6 will be changing its ... the modifications being introduced. I will try to cover it briefly, but

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

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  living tissue, but Khademhosseini’s work is unique in its “ ... found in your body. Khademhosseini is applying his micro-scaffold to grow ... word, it is extraordinary because of the incredibly smart, hardworking

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  (4 weeks), so it is a great chance to explore a field that you are ... that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It is a super cool ... alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  low crawling to how to challenge intruders, we had to know it all so ... , which is where we really get to practice our skills. LLAB is run by the juniors, seniors, and fifth-years, and is designed to teach the freshmen and

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... list is used to manage the uncertainty of knowing how many students will ... 't somewhere I really thought I wanted to go). Looking back now, it was a great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that ... study that's not even vaguely within your interests? I don't think it is ... 's department learns a given subject.   This is not to say that answers

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  longer essay? The Part II is a great place for us to get to hear your voice and understand what is important to you. Then, it's time for your ... Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  I was on track to double-major in history; all it takes is one history ... majors here, and it’s hard to choose. # “What course are you?” a tour guide ... , writing, is largely useless to humanity, so I want my day job to do some

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... short. Filk music can be awfully hard to define. Strictly speaking, it is ... " was written to commemorate Jim Henson's work; it is sung from the point

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  possible, especially because at MIT it is a required class for all mechanical ... teaches design and manufacturing, so the first month or so is dedicated to ... final product. Alas, here is my robot: Its name is Melotaur (both a play

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... of interest. i feel like it's good to know what good code looks like ... while and i'm really excited to finally be in it. i was a bit irritated by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  'm on at the lab is swearing to me that it's 1 Gbps, but that just sounds ... 't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... department is allowing MIT biology undergrads to apply to the program (see

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I realized 1) it is entirely inappropriate for innocent eyes, and 2) I said

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them ... Furstenberg is quoted as saying, "We do these letters to try to introduce some ... 't have any early notification is that MIT does its notification pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  , naturally, YES YES YES YES YES YES PLEASE!!! ME!!!!!! I managed to tone it ... my list of 101 Things to Do Before You Graduate!   It’s always ... remember to turn on the personal fan installed inside. (It took me and two

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015