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• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your ... confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its ... Thursdays, I was the sole representative of the project in attendance. So that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in ... can offer guidance. But sometimes I’ll see a Linkedin update about ... birthday today. Starting in 2019, I’ve always thrown a birthday party for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT celebrates Pi Day. How do you celebrate Pi Day ... sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  It’s funny how one month can entirely change your perspective on life ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... MIT students can get in for free any day with a student ID). Looks like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  pm. i'm studying progenitor cell migration in planarians, which are ... them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries ... to say, i was in survival mode every single day until i finished my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other ... asymptotically how can we quantify the notion of "information" and estimating

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  ).  This creativity can be expressed in any project: I’ve built my own robot ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... though the class was three months long, the only thing I can remember was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... until I was nauseous at [annotation note="all you can eat sushi place that ... , which was held in the last week before we were all kicked out. I took six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... different forces that shape cities and the challenges that they face. I can

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  same time, I was in school studying math and computer science. I am more interested in the math side of things, how physical systems make order. But I ... . How in the world did you both go from doing engineering at MIT to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  2, which is red. And I can hide everything in the layer by clicking ... teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it ... can add or remove Artboards after the document is created. I also like

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  just showing me how much more introspection I need to do before I can do ... . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... thing I must mention is how infinitely cooler it is to visit the East ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  were back in the day. As I hope you can tell from reading the blogs ... know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  how long I can keep this sprint up when I look at my calendar and see ... should be doing in January. I worry about how much energy I’ll have next ... productivity. Graduation seems so far away, and I’m not sure how far my legs can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  instance, i’m fluent enough in math and cs that i can more or less understand ... they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... understand what goes on in wet labs and mechanical engineering eventually i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• 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…

  

  explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I ... questions. How To Respond To Your Offer Of Admission. I hear from the folks in The Waiting Room that many EA admits have been wondering how they

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  graduating from Course 20 in 2013, I ran an educational media outreach program ... the MIT Media Lab’s then-called Learning Initiative. In 2018, I started my PhD in Course 20. Just the other week I had a lovely lunch with Ceri

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  Verde's ridiculous prices in the student center. I told Geza to set the pace, that I would follow. I can imagine how strange this would look like to the ... obtained to relieve me of the MIT firehose-induced famine. In truth, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008