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• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  -4791. We want to ensure that you make the best, most informed choice you can, especially when it comes to something as important as finances. Is the reply form supposed to be postmarked by May 1 or received by May 1? The form is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  's Guide to the Galaxy. Similar to gateway drugs, this book is the first step ... really just in here to see how many of you will even read the post before ... come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  : PARSIG’s goal is to understand the mechanism of L. donovani infection and ... the most rewarding as well. Without a doubt, I would love to do MISTI ... In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  're going to crossreg than actually do, mostly because MIT's offerings in the ... refreshing to experience a Harvard course. Probably the most popular cross ... . Wellesley is further away, in the suburbs, but because of the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  back, and mine is bright red. I don’t actually mind the rain much ... It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... rain thing down. The first thing I’ve discovered is that umbrella’s don

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  the recipe is in the dipping sauce. We didn't put as much jalapeño and ... . This summer, we've had more time to be in the kitchen, and we've made a ... already! Its SO good omg. The dough is flaky and buttery, but not in a gross

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  choreography?" ...and then I choose to watch the videos that fall in the ... know what parts I need to pay more attention to. of course, this is the ... 've been dancing...unofficially...for much longer. as I've mentioned in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  As I mentioned earlier, Neil Gaiman is coming to MIT! The lecture he ... also happened to have my laptop with me...and there was wireless in the ... academic to walk around the bomb site. As a writer, I am much more

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if ... for the space ship to explore the Solar system in 30 years if it is ... -E-Cheese: addictively entertaining in the most kindergartenish, brain-frazzling sense of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  unpacked thoroughly yet – the suitcase is still in the center of my ... to use up the rest of my TechCash (there was so much free food over the ... Saturday, only to return on Sunday morning (haha, just in time for the Boston

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  thought process I like to walk myself through, but in light of the most ... ="because apparently y'all care about TikTok THAT much"]the second most important event ... we went to a Lebanese restaurant in downtown/Penn Court. We took the

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

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  not to scream. It's not the drill - I have about as much tolerance for ... wakesurf to rock climbing to celebrating the most epic birthday ever - it was ... absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It's as if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  in high school. I was mostly busy studying; I would make excuses to not ... single day is discuss scientific theories, listen to the NPR Politics ... , the Myers-Briggs test is, in fact, not scientific at all. Even

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  've learned in linguistics applied to Tagalog. Phonology is the study of a ... sharing a decent number of sounds. The most common sound in Tagalog is the a ... graduation requirements in MIT is the HASS Concentration, a group of related

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  of the fireworks. I apologize in advance for our witty banter. I’m much ... went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Harvard libraries, my primary use for it is to ride the M2 shuttle for free ... back was me practicing calligraphy, which is one of my hobbies. In the ... some drafts I made while trying to piece together the diagram in the post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• 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…

  

  work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... robots have yet to even come close to mimicking the human gait. In an ... , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to

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

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  awesome feeling. All that's left to finish up this semester is the final ... joys of MIT. In actuality, I have much, much more to say - but for now ... Oh, hey, the weekend's here. Awesome. In other news, the last full

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  've Learned", is quickly rising up in views to join its brothers with over 2 ... other anything and everything. Many say that the best time to be at MIT is when semester classes aren't in session, and I agree. IAP is a much more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015