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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...about the legend of RB Woodward? RB Woodward, MIT SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  degrees. I had tried my best to make myself a sort of “senior engineer on ... I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may ... graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  College (Jan. 6), RPI (Jan. 1), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 1). For ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students during regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up ... good research job. It's ~5 years of subsidized training in a field that I appreciate. I'm not one of those people who rambles on about how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW AND WIND CHILLS IN THE 5 TO 15 DEGREE RANGE ... MERRIMACK VALLEY OF NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS. SNOW... WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES ... CANCELLATIONS IN ALL SORTS OF TRANSPORTATION DEPENDENT BUSINESS. SNOWFALL RATES

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  If any of you have attended one of my MIT info sessions, either on campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of underground tunnels. On mornings like these (3 degrees when I left the house), I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  were happening on campus. Didn’t see any of my friends hanging out in the ... hang my jacket and I sit down in front of my laptop and stay in my room ... The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last ... to advance to the semifinal of the NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  you submit your high school transcript with three years of grades and the results of any external examinations, such as the International ... entrance to universities in your home country. We understand that many grades
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  the last two telethons but, alas, this year the 9 degree weather outside is just too much of a deterrent, it's so nice and warm inside that I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Cambridge ones, will have done as part of their undergraduate degree, or one ... Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... half-week of classes, and my first problem set, which was intense. I ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  comforting hometown of Los Angeles, California (well, not quite. I live slightly outside of that: Norwalk, California.) I'm really excited to be ... year for the past four years, just out of my mom and I's pure love for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow continually found new and improved methods of hosing myself and ... method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Harvard University

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  . 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). For those ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... College (Jan. 1), Boston University (Jan. 1), Brandeis University (Jan. 15

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a ... that you could get D's in most of your classes and it wouldn't affect

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  the first one: Not the same few colleges: The State University of New ... the nearest major research university to where I grew up, for some of ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004