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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a ... admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked ... particularly conscious of the magnitude of this selection process, given the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  accomplishments and those of my friends, we couldn't help but feel some degree of ... I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  . And when we admit a student, we admit that student to all of MIT, and at ... the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  can actually do well in - all my years of being good at English class ... At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  . Morale was low. At around 3:30 AM I took a 30 minute nap on the floor of ... , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  This year the city of Boston turns 375 years old (that makes Boston how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th ... when I hit 20). To kick off part of the festivities, free hot air

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston ... feel great at the finish line, you'll still have a lot of people cheering ... --for better or for worse--kind of a defining experience of my time at MIT. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  , I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I ... eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... few weeks at MIT, both of the (old) laptops I had brought to campus

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  chat this: HELL. FUCKING. YES. For those of you who don't know me ... movie on Netflix at least 14 times over, if not more, and read the first ... arrived at the gorgeous venue. We took the escalator to the top floor and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  to move at a speed of about 5 steps every 10 seconds (over ... degrees (I know you winter-lovers are laughing at me but just remember I ... of the Boston skyline at sunset, from the sailing pavilion.  

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  actually still technically a member of the Class of 2011. While at Squid Labs ... have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... school/Talibe center I volunteered at (photo courtesy of Lauren Scott

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for ... moving to and living at MIT becomes more of a reality for you), I want to ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  representing MIT (well, and the nation of Belize) at WorldMUN. Should be quite ... "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  of teaching at MIT as well! I’ve been a TA for Single-Variable and ... at the end of Junior Year, but the people are what made me stay ... great ;-;. They gave me an Anya “heh” shirt at the end of the semester as

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems ... One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  whatnot. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: You can be pre-med at MIT, but you'll have to ... like something out of The Running Man, except without Richard Dawson ... are mostly low, with a few are flashing in a miasma of neon, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  lot of moments at MIT that remind me of how different this school is ... debater at heart :') the nuances of this are complex and deserve another ... , at this stage of my life lol."]feed the hyper-competitive part of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the ... any customers. One day, independent filmmaker Nirvan Mullick of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  figure has been found to a high degree of accuracy, the question then ... one of the easier 8.13 experiments) and gives you, to varying degrees ... check at the end of September I got a 60/100. But I learned. By the next I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008