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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  'm here to do is tell you about life at MIT. Selection's all over and the ... ." Indeed, we spend the first class day doing just that. :) I've kept a ... 'm looking at the MS in transportation offered by the civil engineering

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  walk in the same way that humans do. Ming says, "The idea is that babies ... offered the position. Her mentor, Russell Tedrake, was an MIT Computer ... she is working in a cognitive science lab. She came to MIT to do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... admissions offers for these schools won't be sent out for a long time ... Furstenberg is quoted as saying, "We do these letters to try to introduce some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar though. He's been doing it forever and he's amazing. He'll look at files ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to work hard? Is ... students, and is it destructive competition? What do students here do for ... generally do one thing? Are there cliques? How prevalent is partying, and are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... upon your new favorite spot.  Hold onto your 101 Things To Do Before ... think of something fun to do. I know people who've regretted losing theirs

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  , referencing Wenjun's only current internship offer in Tempe, which he ... up with that on the spot? Well, you do get to rhyme things with your ... ." "My rap name is Flavius," Wenjun offered. "No, it's not," Lupe said

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  's what I wrote about, and what I would change if I could do it all over ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) I wrote ... . Lesson learned. It's actually okay to do things for fun, guys. I still

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  -epic REX disaster, I’ve decided to offer you people some advice for when your ... .  People are good, I really do believe that. When you don’t know what to do, remember that you don’t have to know what to do on your own; the people

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing ... lying on your back yelling “I really like this stretch!” Then we would do ... indoor kickball or doing homework. With these experiences in mind, I was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  process, we eventually were able to offer admission to 25 of them. Transfer students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  - remember that you can call us after 3/18) - otherwise, we'd be offering "online notification" which as you know we don't offer. :-) MyMIT will only

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  offer as many interviews as we can, we have limited availability and may not able to offer interviews to all applicants. If your interview is
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  't offer something to meet every students' unique individual learning styles ... -year learning communities offer a distinct kind of learning environment that
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short ... you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning ... to please follow your school policy if possible. However, your offer of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... school does not offer any calculus classes...I also worry about not being able to take AP classes, as they are not offered at my school. I would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... dorm is renovated. The class, now labelled STS.051, will be offered this ... school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see ... twice (once to a law school, whose offer I declined, and once to CMS/W at MIT, whose offer I accepted), and denied seven times. In fact, two of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• 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…

  

  to terraform mars, and lab-grown meat, synthetic biology offers new ... that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post ... allows me to do just that - I get to create organisms with fun properties

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

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  students do whatever they find worthwhile – whether it’d be a mini ... !) taking a class (many people do. ‚ò∫) Browse around this year’s IAP site ... of the most popular offerings that fill up very quickly include the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010