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• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  people seem to be panicking about getting all the required materials in for ... ’t make the Early Action deadline, it is okay to apply Regular Action (RA ... interviewer was last Friday*. This is NOT the deadline to have your interview

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  commit history to the project repo, which spiked enormously in march ... 's...so...beautiful...[/caption] In my last post, I mentioned how therapeutic it felt to be able to drag a bug report to the "Done" column on Trello. This might be Stockholm

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about ... installation of ski lifts in hell, or the release of a successful Blink 182 side

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  2.009 is over, but you can watch the archived webcast on Facebook ... Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events ... shuttle to the mall (it picks up right outside the Kendall Coop, is free ... 've been everywhere in Boston and everybody is sold out. I just want to have

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  went from 8:30 to late in the evening, Work Week activities lasted all ... The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  national convention, which is conveniently also in Louisville this year, then taking the bus down even further south to visit my dad in Woodstock ... differently with people. Such is the nature of being in very different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most daunting challenges. From addressing the energy needs of tomorrow to ... the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  and Ben), the first step to getting into medical school is submitting an ... reading the newspaper in my free time. I swear this entry wasn't just to ... schedules. First off, in order to even take the MCATs, you need to have taken

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful ... two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... , now. to the point where you can't even see where it went. catching up

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... together. There was going to be a fifty-fifty chance we'd be in the same ... probably make room in his group to staple with all three of us. The other two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor ... since I could barely walk. So I waited for the pain-killers to set in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  Chevron, which is announcing a $10 million commitment to the Fab Foundation ... ). One of the most fascinating things I discovered in the course of writing ... manufacturers to share their talents and hone their skills. As part of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... comic strip Doonesbury. Basically, back in 2006, the author of the strip invited readers to decide which college the character Alex should attend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  'm totally going to sneak down when I'm at the lab on Friday morning. This is ... phenomenal cosmic bad luck!), my midterm weeks tend toward the crazy. This is ... want to check out the webcast of the ceremony celebrating the opening of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... "]wake up at 7am,[/annotation]and head down into the cramped gym in the ... person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  . Anything in the gap between the subject and the verb is less likely to have ... endings: the end is the most powerful part of a sentence, paragraph, or ... meaning in context you want it to have; use the thesaurus again if you have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... , or Friday Afternoon Club. This is a study break event in the dorm ... 's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... to go to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with them

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and ... completely agree that it should not be a competition to see who takes the most ... of the program is not to pile on pressure for the benefit of a high

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006