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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college ... did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main ... service. Decorated with medals and ribbons on graduation. You've heard of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  space. One of the walls, deeply red, bore the letters: Boston University ... take classes and ultimately earn a Boston University Bachelor of Arts ... where I was. A group of women trudged past me. I looked around wonderingly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  after leaving for college? Even an overly generous estimate of seeing my ... losing a bunch of the freedoms that make college so exhilarating, I am ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you ... perhaps that's why you'd like to come. What goes on here is nothing short of ... other blog posts (you can even check out my first post, The Land of MIT

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of college email, so it never hurts to amplify the message."]tell you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  history of the universe. This would horrify undergrad Anna, who was afraid ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  imaginative problem solving. The MIT School of Architecture and Planning offers ... Technology. The MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences offers ... More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... . And even more-so, so many of the skills in GEL ... practice & growth opportunity. This fall I am directing The Importance of

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics ... Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  (clubs). One aspect of University that is often over looked is the fact that ... University Digital Gaming Society (CUDGS) A group of gamers who come together ... off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  playing. We play our first team of the tournament: College of Mount Saint ... our second game of the tournament. We play University of Southern Maine ... for games. Regular season: where we play all of our official games on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important ... [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors ... school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... at MIT, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do after college, so I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... selection, visual thinking and communication, kinematics of mechanisms ... at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  also helps if you can read quickly -- there's a lot of reading in college ... don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... , particularly at MIT. Most of what I remember from high school was doing things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for ... to say no one would hire me, because by August I had two job offers ... moment was the dark night of my soul. While working those two jobs, I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Neurobiology, one of three lab courses offered by the Brain and Cognitive ... 'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... looks like in the sciences, but in reality most people are sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited ... all the fun things that you sort of forget about when you're taking ... of Disease and Health in Society) and watch a pretty intriguing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... big MIT event, there's a lot of hype, rumor, and mythology surrounding it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009