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• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post ... pressure to stay by default. It’ll take a lot of communication to get through ... Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  "Braveheart" is "rated R for brutal medieval warfare." By the time you read this ... for our first bandit running of the Boston Marathon. I've got my Super Protein Odwalla Bar for energy, ten dollars in case I pass out and need to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  part of my application last May and the process did not end till about ... what is best for you. Recovering from all of this is a process, but ... couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  chapter of the python natural language processing textbook. then i hung out ... cream with toons. it was a rare occasion where i didn't feel drained by ... 'm doing good work that i can be proud of, and like i'm contributing a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  day of classes. I therefore had eighteen days' worth of summer to spend. Actually, I take that back. Two of those days were taken up by a wedding (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  of electives chosen by the student to provide in-depth study of a field ... about cell systems, and model processes of a cell, then consider Course 20 ... have been traveling around for MD-PhD program interviews, which is one of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT prefer public school or private school?

  every type of school: public, private, religious, charter, and home school ... have different resources. It's our job as admissions officers to sift ... MIT. Matt McGann, former Director of Admissions, wrote a great blog
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... ), I always thought of myself as more of a writer than a mathematician. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  students with limited resources of money or time or parental participation ... While I was on vacation this past week, MIT Dean of Admissions ... with Bruce Poch, Dean of Admissions at Pomona College, to promote their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  to major in anything evenly divisible by three. I am not making any of ... been a streaking blur of energy and spontaneity: starting classes at the ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  , penciling in notes between the lines, and the two hours of rehearsal fly by ... subconscious energy; they take up the part of my brain which is usually busy ... terrain here is bumpier: the past two years, of course, have been marred by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  robot ram into the wall and destroy bits of itself in the process, we ... 'm running out of time and energy to even get back up? How many more hits can I ... you can't predict how a robot is going to look like by the end of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  changes that will impede this global energy crisis from spiraling out of ... sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm, with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  healthcare, followed by manufacturing and energy. It's cool to see winners in ... Director of Data at Second Spectrum, which is used by almost all NBA ... was more of a recognition of energy achievements in the years before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say I'm the biggest fan of football, this was a great game, and the ... .) So I leave California on Saturday morning to enjoy the wonders of IAP

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  resources your school might offer. and of course if you have a better design ... i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive ... tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  the admissions process, support that we consider along with the rest of ... MIT is one of the top Division III athletic programs in the country. MIT is always looking for students-athletes. Almost 20 percent of
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  -making process by asking myself what my core values are. I decided that these were ... because of cool space applications. The idea of black holes and dark energy ... great news. I was interviewed by the American Society of Mechanical

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  institutional behavior. Many of the best jobs held by leaders in the field, will ... program, jointly offered by the Departments of Civil and Environmental ... most pressing global challenge of our time. Solutions for mitigating and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  the lens of these other platforms as well. So, as a resource (and a bit ... other way than navigating to or searching for MITAdmissions.org. Of course, it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014