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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  career fair was kind of like being the twelve-year-old at your big brother's birthday party. You're kind of cute and everyone smiles at you and gives you ... be too. So, to wrap it up, a summary of the career fair. At the cost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  show them how easily a campus can feel like a home. At the end of the jam ... -In program this fall, we’re reflecting on the incredible success of our inaugural event. Last fall, we welcomed our first group of high school juniors

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  offer. if you're interested, look at the dorm pages and check out their ... handful of dorms at my CPW, and ended up ranking Burton Conner #1 later. tip ... Bloggers - Friday at 8 PM in W20-307: come say hi to all of us and ridicule

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Gloria Chao, a story focused on a freshman at MIT. I also reread a bunch of ... ....sad because Covid made all of these impossible. Go to at least 3 musicals ... as a kind of win. Go to at least 3 museums - Incomplete. I actually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  local coffee shop while others gag at the smell of coffee. Pretty sure you ... sit at a desk in a library with a stick of gum to keep me awake but no ... unfiltered. c. Staring at the ceiling – I do some of my best thinking while

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  spread the word of Jesus recently. Everyone around us at the restaurant was ... of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique ... [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... building block of the simple nanoscale world. Nanowires can be used as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost ... in the right direction….. ……eventually found the Hollywood Walk of Fame and saw the stars of some of my favorite actors….. He graduated

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  ’s common to feel stuck in a rut at times, and there are ways to get out of it ... . After a long week of interviewing, I accepted a position at a company that ... My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  MIT Class of 2012 Weekend at the Movies So how's it work? Well, the most ... movie or favorite scenes/lines. I'll post the results of the "Weekend at ... As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parent event offerings based on feedback, requests, and questions. Some of ... Services Session for Parents: Friday afternoon at 1pm, Director of Student ... , whys and whens of financial aid at MIT -- how we determined your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  of Galax, Va. Brown ended up at MIT by recruiting himself. In public ... Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70, via Slice of MIT, reprinted with Prof. Winston ... Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 I went to the last football game of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... screenshot of how your MIT grade report looks like online. Note: Your grade

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  This past Sunday, I walked out of an early screening of Everything Everywhere All At Once hosted by MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). MIT LSC hosts a lot of very cool early screenings as well as just high quality

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  course of the semester, I finished it later and later. First it was done at ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time ... performance While writing this blog, I had a look-see at some of the goals I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  nerdy side of things, I also joined the MIT Science Fiction Society at the ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice ... more time at MIT). I don’t think I did a very good job of building these ... for something related to your education, MIT offers a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  being and took the hint, offering us lodging for the night on his couch at ... things as those at MIT. Ursinus students apparently slide down some of ... sitting by the fountain at the Tomb of the Unknown American Revolutionary

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  there were only a couple of hallways and none of them had any forks; walking from one side of campus to the other took less than 4 minutes. MIT ... , I expected to get lost at some point. Everything is so new! Psets

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In ... selection of friends at some random time in the middle of the night and ask ... they were doing. The result would be a mosaic of diverse happenings at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009