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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  strangers.”) Have no fear; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Second ... apply for degree programs at Oxford (I’m hoping to studying Integrated ... of recommendation and proceed to your personal statement, where you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining ... by being a tour guide at my alma mater. I loved college and all of the

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  of the protests, I love the Saturdays at PPLM. The activity pushes me ... in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  ’m Mollie! I’m one of the five or six(?) original bloggers, and I was the first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  but also want to feel disappointed at peoples understanding of science ... !!!! The Farewell: Billi's family returns to China under the guise of a fake ... interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

    Week of May 30-June 5 Commencement week at MIT! The Class of 2016 ... at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, followed by an offsite meeting at the University of DC, meeting with leaders of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  Astronautics. Andy finished near the top of all three categories at the Boston ... of them. Course 16 is like a big family of excited kids gazing at the ... professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  FIRST OF ALL: In case that you haven't thought of enough reasons to come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  lot of the time my purpose in being at such a highly regarded ... i recently experienced my first weekend at mit with classes finally in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  . And explore the rest of New House while you're at it! --- Other Must ... to throw at your friends for the whole duration of CPW, here is your ... . :) --- I will most certainly be at all of the events listed above (the actual

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  ’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates - one of us a teacher, the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... is actually very good, starting at Massachusetts minimum wage of $14

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  Student Profiles from MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning Course 11 is a small major with a lot of breadth. It is cross ... visualization of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning. Here you can

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that's about it. This concept of leaves falling off trees? Yeah. Completely ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  ’t think this degree of flexibility is necessarily bad, even if it can lead ... . 18-wheeler truck At MIT, most classes count for 12 units of academic ... in real life too – just look at the average number of hours per week in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  diploma?" question? @Jack: Yes, you should. It won't put you at ... you use to look at the URL we submit in Part 2? Of course it will be ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  keep my room at a feisty 80 degrees this winter and start a refuge ... 's most of the freshman class!) signed up to clean up harbors, work at the ... 's literally opportunities at every click of a mouse. Each week, a kind

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

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video ... , which is as complete a record as anything else of offbeat communications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  the “other side” of hiring at the MIT career fairs. Both of them agreed ... restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that Bertuccis Brick Oven Pizzeria is the Breadsticks of Cambridge, MA. This is

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at ... do it all now. It's okay to jog instead of run. Keep up at a steady ... importantly though, remember the BIG picture. At the end of the day, it doesn

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost ... Sinclair. At one point in the show, Esther is described to be the sort of ... CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023