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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... Science. ItТƒфs pretty easy to apply for one of these awards, just write

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  interesting question, one that took me about four years to figure out how to answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have ... the deadline to accept MIT's offer of admission? You need to return our form by May 1 (postmark date) if you intend to enroll at MIT. How much

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on ... through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first ... . Unfortunately, I woke up around 1 PM anyway and was about to go back to sleep when

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to those this week. But we've been instructed to clear everything from our

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to prove it to you? Aww, here goes. Today I ate a grape lollipop that Save ... to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... pleasantly surprised to find NO traffic at all (not even near Manhattan *gasp

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  This week, MIT admissions officers will begin to travel across the United States to conduct information sessions. This week, there will be ... RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a ... , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... life.) I've also been getting stuff together to apply to grad school. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  So this weekend I managed to visit two time zones and five airports ... Pig...no joke :^) So as of yet, you have not been introduced to my best friend, Rob '08, but this weekend, I managed to make it out to Ohio to

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  Let's start this one with a picture. So, we went to see the weekly ... getting back from Harvard Square, we decided it'd be best to bike. But it's usually not best to bike wearing this: So yeah, luckily the wind was was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  So I guess telling you my name would be a good place to start: Bryan ... Biomedical Engineering. (My mom hates it when I revert to MIT-speak; I can ... language by the time I graduate) I'm still deciding whether or not to double

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind this: I challenged the other admissions officers to a "no-shave" reading ... Juan Salvador Acosta. (You guys should write to Matt and tell him to join

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete ... pieces, and how drawing connects to everything. From 7 to 10pm, the class ... had one goal: learn to apply line and tone to capture reality. I liked

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  —where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... , or another kind of art, can be really personal"]humanity added to it ... ’m amputating a precious, home-grown limb. I tell myself that I’ll come back to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  is like an older brother to me! he did something that i can't tell is ... to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide ... teachers attempting to combine Rosetta Stone and mobile games and doing so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

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

  

  , we wrote regarding changes to the AP exams. Since then, we have ... offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal ... it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... a knob to raise the handguard, turn the machine on, and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.   I continue to ... aids and passionate faculty work hard to ensure that we graduate with the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  We often think of innovation as tied inherently to engineering and ... approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard ... social innovation. We have to innovate, engineering the ways in which we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016