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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  giving me a great chance to be better informed about what life is like for ... years I went to school here. But the coolest part is that when this four years is over, I don’t have to graduate or land my dream job…because I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of ... colleges is quite appealing to many families. There are more than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy ... Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those ... show is a satirical program, poking fun at conservative political pundit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... Easter). So what does this mean? It means that we’re supposed to ... Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  much we have grown compared to a year ago. The TwT experience: It is so ... premise of this video series is to demystify and humanize professors ... us in many ways. What we want most is for people to watch the videos

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same ... is ready to be evaluated by the admissions officers. Then, finally ... . When we get them, the folders are all set to go -- it looks so easy! But

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  It's been a long week, but next week promises to be even longer ... right is a picture from the concert) and it was awessssomeeee. Ok, so there's no excuse not to have fun! Think about it, when you've been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the ... wanted to create this joint major and how MIT is well-positioned to offer ... adapting to climate change require an understanding of both the Earth system

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  with everything else, that seems to be the case lately. It’s almost the ... outside my room seems to be rattling, as if it's filled with rats. Maybe I ... finish it before the end of sophomore year. I had signed up to take the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low the bar is set and simply limping over it to gain admission. The biggest ... people! From MIT! Talking to other people! With cameras! And chat rooms! It

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  . What I’m going to show below is that it is possible to find a treatment ... to serve. As the draft happened by birthdays, it is almost surely ... economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  because it's something you have to see for yourself.     Janji makes ... Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a ... to become a better photographer, so I have a bunch of pictures for you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  went to great pains to protect the dome. The material is very light and the wind will blow through it, not billow up behind. It is colorfast and ... digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  information faster than you can provide it? I tried to brainstorm some resources ... (does anyone actually know what an Irish Pub is?) to teach Carl about ... thanked Carl for his company. I'm not sure how to think about my day. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  's just the way it is. Ask anyone. I've known and understood this since I was a little kid. That's not to say I accepted it, of course. When my ... also be a stupid way to pick a college. Just sayin. =) It had astounding

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... , but the FUN form is the best way to update us. The FUN form is due by ... in EA. That's a small number, but to be honest so is the number of RA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of ... we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost ... search is nearing its conclusion. And now, for the obligatory suspense: Did

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  a 9 pm flight at 7 pm, it was too late. I need to get my eyes checked ... minivan or a sports utility vehicle. It was a strange hybrid of sorts, but the nice part was that it only had 1200 miles on it, and it still had

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  compare it to that physics demo. The institute is the speaker, sending waves ... is tuned to the right frequency, it can make the wine glass really sing ... . There's no denying that MIT is hard, and I'd be lying if I tried to hide

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  Allan K.' 17 once put it, "Stanford is never far from MIT"). Grab some ... great competition that sends many alumni to MIT and is broadly aligned ... Thursday, which is Public Day and when the finalists are at their projects to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017