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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ). Then there was midnight. Three of my friends and hall neighbors, M., T ... of art, the transparent front of the ICA offered a panorama of the ... before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  percent of top positions in mainstream media. In a Brown University study of ... I needed to apply. Just a little jolt of confidence can really go a ... aura of professionalism, grace, and personality whether she’s reporting

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  colleges: Rice University. I make no secret of the fact that I think MIT ... I've just finished in New York City, where I did my last two days of ... where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  200hz in the unseen hours of the morning. University faded into universe ... is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light ... five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  . MIT can offer you everything in terms of academics. I could not ask for ... changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to ... , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  this was not one of those mornings. This was a curious morning indeed. I ... + piccolo) below the seat in front of me just the way I was taught by ... of background info: The MIT Concert Band is a student organization, as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  research, or applying to certain summer grants. Or blogging! But of course ... wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non-credit class through Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. Here's a photo of me in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  Random Hall Senior House Simmons Hall Also, there's a new beta version of ... . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree ... the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  the center of the universe. With that context under our belts, we ... , 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  there's never a truly huge number of people applying to one program. If ... : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  realize that most of this readership has never applied to either grad school ... 's an argument for applying. What kinds of fellowships are out there ... and four letters of recommendation. And, if you're applying to the Hertz

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... lost' question, which offers a choice between two public-health programs ... will save 200 lives, the other has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 lives

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  can apply to any part of the world. Our professor even has a piece in ... , offered under the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). I signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  (Todai), the most prestigious university in Japan, through a year of ... ashamed of. I was deferred when I applied ED (not to MIT), and there was a ... Amazing Discovery of the Day: After nearly three semesters at MIT, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  walked to the other side of main campus to go to a class. The lecture hall ... Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/Applying ... with 👀, but do I want to dox my Reddit account to all of you? No. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... an awful lot of meals in a dining hall. Notice that I said "a dining hall", not "the dining hall", because if you have a plan at one of these

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013