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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  about the MIT startup community. One of the projects I'm co-leading is ... across the Web piecing together fragments of the 100K's rich history has been so much fun that I lost track of time.   The competition

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a ... Emerson Scholar program? MTG? I've read most of the online stuff, but I'd like to know about the time commitment and competitiveness of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen ... state something: our advising seminar might be one of the coolest classes ever. Each week we spend the first hour or so of class learning about

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  to a few new faces? So I asked the good folks in the MIT Class of 2012 ... in the long run that only degrades the full impact and true value of ... dedicate the full measure of their time, passion, and energies to admitting

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  good chance of finding success the second time around. It all depends on ... well as a good number of the other "top" national universities. Good luck ... . ------------------------------------- Jane wrote, "what i'm wondering is, how does the essay really affect our

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

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  major by the end of their freshman year. If you're really, really unsure ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year ... declaring your major at the end of the year. My impression is that joining a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my ... in all of her snarky goodness, but sometimes these pesky things like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... than watching 1/4th of a movie, I started thinking as I looked out the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the ... by two attendees of the Hong Kong Comics Festival & Game Fair in one of ... an idea of how behind on email I am right now). He wrote, "The male

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  of the light filtering through the pink curtains of my bedroom in the ... for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and tranquility, of quiet car rides punctuated only by the soft hum of the engine as

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

    It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... rounds). If they lost this match, they would be out of the tournament and ... thus named in honor of the poisonous organisms in the Charles River, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  of (in good spirit)/ talk directly to specific people from the audience ... . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it ... (the topic of the class today) where our teacher showed us animatics from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  ? Of landing inside the best Wall Street firm from which to write the story of an age? Of landing in the seat with the best view of the business ... played by accident in their lives. There's a lot of other good things Lewis

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  commencement address for the Class of 2008, as well as a response in the opinions ... “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... , the average MIT student is more than conscious of problems that don

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems ... practiced at MIT. I struggled to understand what was the point of all the

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  -tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the undergraduate science majors and more than a third of the engineering students are women. Half of the nation’s medical students are women, and for decades

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... mark the passage of time. When people ask me how I got my start in ... into the teeth of the Great Recession, I applied to 63 jobs that spring

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019