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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick ... /PhD program yet, but the general plan is in place. So how did this all happen ... is that I made a decision about what I want my life to be like and how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  ;re here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers below in the comments.  I will try to update this post with FAQs ... period, but I strongly suggest you submit your application well in advance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  similar in these ways but I hardly ever find anyone that I can look up to ... how sci-fi can impact me and my worldview. I attribute passing many AP ... SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... in admissions (‘twas the season) and doing whatever my heart desired. I ... that occurred, as everyone in WILG seemed to start a project over IAP (I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  My hope is that in the next p-set and class-filled 48 hours, I eat ... joys of running bridge loops in Boston. Afterwards, I decided to take a ... drained. I needed to re-discover why I needed to be at MIT in the first

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... involved in obscure programs) can identify their major in one number of one ... in Roman numerals, as far as I know....oh, the intricacies of MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics ... better food. In 2000 I left JPL to try out consulting, teaching and ... I "really believed" in evolution. I had been complaining about this

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  interviews (30 interviews in the span of a week and a half can be rough, as is ... sister. This cat has no idea how much I missed her. Photo of Mansaf ... already--3,974,400 seconds--and here I am, back in the States, ready to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... five things that you can’t (or at least shouldn’t) eat in the Glass Lab ... to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  you try it. I can't say how many things I would have missed out on if I ... of the year, so please have fun. And lots. Thanks :^) That's all I can ... . So keep the cash in your wallet for your MIT sweatshirt. Rule #2: If

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  statistics, because I'm very interested in satellites, satellite networks, and satellite communications, so I need to understand randomness and how random ... (literally) in October 2020. I am super excited for this, but the first lecture

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  , looking at every project I can find. But today, I was there to attend the ... aren't the newest thing around but I've never seen one in person before ... data reveals how people move about inside a building and can potentially

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how ... scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I ... . Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... opportunities in classes and in clubs. I am taking SP.747-Creative Imaging, a ... semester's worth of film, but also access to three printers where I can print

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... it doesn't count because my birthday is in December, and I have already ... pretty excited because I can now write the date as "2-0-0-0" rather than "1

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Who will have access to my application information?

  can be found on our website. But so that you are aware, we do share some
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  in lockdown so i never saw any dentists. my gums became weaker and ... how i would have to smash my foot into the ground a thousand times more ... moving quickly, but it was only after meeting more people in person that i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  . For now, I’m struggling to coordinate communications between people in ... ’t realize just how ignorant I was about outside institutions. There are very ... prepare for—I’ve talked to alums who have been in the bubble for 30 years

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  foods is listed in kilojoules in addition to in calories. Hallo again. I've been in Germany for a little over a week now and I've already climbed 509 ... 200 miles by train in a single day. Amazing Race 13, here I come. My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  currently in print.) "I just think it's not very empowering, you know? It ... go," I say, and shuffle into the Self-Help Section before I can do ... I walked through the front door of my local Barnes and Noble today

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008