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• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  the[annotation note="this also gave me an excuse to avoid studying for ... to write about my life for college essays. Writing about your strengths ... of waiting for decisions, and remember to enjoy your senior year of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  question. Never mind that your family cannot afford to pay for your ... narrative points to 11th century Europe as the starting place for higher ed ... Subjects Studied: for a university to gain its status, it must be a place

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... responded with "I have some bad news for you..." to which I felt some concern ... a bit since he came in late and was just scrambling for somewhere to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  't promise to get to them soon, but I'll try my best. For reference, I've done ... , so it's important for you all to take the time to find out what MIT can ... in the comments we didn't get to answer (watch the webcast for the ones

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  didn’t want to wake. Megabus, for leaving promptly at 3 am, minus a ... One bus, for trying to shove a whole extra person into your van, which ... is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  month of work for 6.009, dropping your A to a C, and you still felt ... ’t help it right now. For some reason, it hurts to value someone’s presence ... interning or working for the fam (which, by the way, adds up to 40 hours a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the Ethiopian way, without any meat or dairy other than fish for 40 days. But this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  IAP stands for many things. For those people just chilling on campus, It's A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working, It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  . It is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the ... arrived in the Admissions Office. For students for whom midyear grades are a ... the midyear grades. For other students whose grades have been consistent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 ... theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of 2018 applicants, for sharing your experiences with us. I have shared your ... lessons from you, I have cried for you. I had a really horrible physics

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... Association (or the UA for short, because MIT students love acronyms) aims to ... thanks to Tech Photographer Eric Schmiedl '09 for graciously providing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  converting kiddie toys into a dragster to creating moving art for a museum and ... had the opportunity to work for him for a while, since we are both in ... schoolers design and build machines — from dragsters to an automatic pancake

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  Assam – it’s famous for its tea and it’s home to the hottest pepper in the ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I ... interviewed by my Educational Counselor, he asked me if I liked to do things

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  actually taken the opportunity to test my hypothesis. For everybody out there ... Library takes on a whole new use for students. No longer is it a place to ... 'm all for taking pictures, even having taken many stupid ones myself

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always ... "technology", but are people socially aware,m for example? Are there people ... possible, once one has established effective study habits, to maintain decent

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  Engineering Project Laboratory -- YES! We had 15 projects to choose from for ... Professor Virk. He would wear a North Face jacket to class every day for 10 ... the song for this medley, since that's pretty much the one song in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006