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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  10 degrees in demand are quantitatively based -- accounting, electrical ... communication skills are key to long-term career success. 'Being the best

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  , Delaware and most recently Ithaca, New York. I am a graduate of Norfolk State University (Home of the Spartans!) and the University of Delaware, (Home of The ... recruitment at Cornell University. Fast-forward six years and I'm the new

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.

  

  & PR 16% Midwest & Plains States 14% South/Southwest 11% West Coast 19% Abroad 10% States represented 49 Countries represented 49 Schooling: Public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  I’ve just finished assembling and sealing hundreds of packages with the rest of the admissions team. Not my favorite part of the job (I’m not the biggest fan of paper…

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a comic. The topic was on orbitals and hybridization. I really like it, so I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  ; Plains States 13% South/Southwest 8% West Coast 18% Abroad 13% States ... Least distance traveled: Cambridge, MA The only two US states not represented: Montana and New Mexico The most represented US state: California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  The selection process at MIT is holistic and student centered: each application is evaluated within its unique context. No school, state, or regional quotas are applied; neither is preference given to those with alumni
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... and “A Night to Dismember” party during the month-long Salem Halloween ... United States?" There are more than one romantic lighthouse and Winter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  feels like it's made for college students, what with all the long study ... expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... , thunderstorms, 98-degree days, followed by rain and a 40 degree temperature drop

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  in January is 36 degrees, the average low is 22 (it's also the coldest month, yay for IAP). - The record low for November is 8 degrees and the ... temperature ever recorded was -18 degrees in 1934. - According to the Old Farmer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  recommendation from my writing professor last semester, which begins with a long ... anything about the long day’s journey through Nebraska…The only very noticeable thing about Nebraska is that it was still, all day long, Nebraska

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  hopelessness of your state — existential longing. No, she replied again. If you ... in gratitude. And briefly, I remember what I longed for my freshman ... . The search for objective meaning is absurd — a hopeless state we cannot

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  son of the president of the United States falling in love with the ... alternate universes featuring the band. It felt like forever until I had ... education and university, yet even with all that's offered, I'm still unsure

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs-Boson particle, and whether or not the universe will eventually cave in on itself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  veterans, in collaboration with Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest historically black university. Next week, my mentor and I will travel to Maryland ... transport stops at the Bedford VA, so if I miss the right 62, it’s an hour-long

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  the US State Department. Anna is another PhD astronomer who decided to ... this point, the Associate Vice President for Research at the University ... are on a one-year cycle. The really long-term arguments are not the way

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  universities really be? This time, that extra perspective is not mine, but that ... 's twice as old as the United States. If I could massively overgeneralize for ... 't want to name anything in particular. But as long as I'm giving advice to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  familiar universe previously explainable by reason, science, and Stephen ... and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off ... sorts of MIT-related items, as long as they have the property of being

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  with family. I finally got that damn diploma that I shed so many tears ... Line, my heavy suitcase and jet-lagged state convinced me to take the ... Landlorde) I took an Uber from Bristol to the flat. Back in the States, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025