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• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  wonderful things for education in this country. While I was in Reno, I also ... , I learned (the hard way) how not to pronounce "Nevada" (hint: it's not ... 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Do you have cheerleaders? This, I guess, is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "Hey Ruth ['07], I need a did you know?" "Oh, those are always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement ... and strawberry and coffee and... wait, I can look them all up." "Okay, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  student interested in painting your room, I know of four dorms that allow ... whether you can paint your room is one of those little quirks to look at. I ... Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  in which everyone can thrive and succeed. From what I have seen of ... should I take or activities should I be involved in? There is no one answer ... and recommendations highlighted in the Turning the Tide report, and I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any of the 6 kitchens, but has a muffin tray in every single one?? None of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  -registration, you can even exhibit your work on the MIT campus! My name is Li, and I ... internal and surrounding art worlds. I am interested in the fine arts ... student life at MIT. Before coming to MIT, I had only exhibited in groups

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  get excited. Every time, I think about how far I've gone to be able to ... ride up the elevator makes me think about how I'm "rising" through the ... donates, they earn a badge that they can display in their email signature

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  often inter-connected. At first, I was a bit worried about how I’d fare in ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  converting the numbers to Roman numerals. I'll be frank: never in a bajillion ... answer. So. Awesome. How my friend figured that one out, I will never ... You're sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... research project in six weeks. I attended RSI myself in high school, and this ... trial and error, I’ve become an expert in certain areas of the MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  sentence using words from a vocabulary list; that I can do. It’s quite ... suppose. I can’t speak for any of the other languages taught here at MIT, but I think the Spanish classes have taken a step in the right direction

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... entire AoPS crew are doing. I hope that if you're interested in and excited ... plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  has been sitting largely in its tote bag on my shelf because I wanted to ... usually travel on a daily basis, I want to cover as much as I can. I want to ... pretty quirky, MIT can be beautiful. :) Two... I told someone the other

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  . KN6OQK” how I got here I picked up ham radio as a hobby during ... bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I ... for marshmallows[/caption] artistic terrorization I forgot how exactly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social ... knowledge base. By focusing on LΔ we can really zero in on YOUR individual ... , and standardized tests. Can we rely solely on these tools? I say no

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

   grade in the class; if you do poorly you can simply take the class and the ... 've already mastered introductory coursework at MIT, then you can take an ASE to
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  Pederson won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1987 for figuring out how to ... received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006