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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  actively participating in discussions on how to alter the experiment that ... , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the ... from autonomous drones to what I am currently working on in Biomaterials

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  relevant to the subfield that each student prefers. I say it's "been" in the ... changes to the undergraduate program starting this year. In May I received ... to count towards the degree. It's also flexible in a way that I think

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  care about how long it takes you to drive to get a Crunchwrap Supreme ... . When reading applications, we try our best to get a good sense of the place(s) in which you’ve grown up—reading up on how a place has developed

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... more panic once I get back to Cambridge. Oh wells… I mean, I’

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... how much enjoyment I get out of yelling at the television during

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own ... the air before it enters my system. It’s also recommended to breath in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  in high school and i want to learn more about how i can get admitted ... people applied to MITES, and how many applied to WTP. In addition, I wanted ... my chances of getting in is close to 0 if I were an International Asian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  an incoming freshman because “I’d never get in!” and then proceeded to ... "]RAT[/annotation] in my room and I had to call Unit 12 to get rid of it and some lady ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you ... financial aid award, when your supplemental forms are due, how to pay your balance, how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  good in SolidWorks, how's it going to look in real life? The first thing ... ? Later in the semester we'll be using these to create aluminum molds to ... a lot of coolant splashing everywhere so it was hard to get really

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a ... *. Plus, “high-school dropout” had a nice ring to it (and I would get loads ... hearing of Random Hall, even before talking to Donald Guy '12 (who, in all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  the right amount of torque to get the satellite in the right orientation ... remember going to an info session in the Green Building before the tour. How ... wanted to get in somewhere before hearing back from MIT in December. This

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  how much we were able to get done without setting anything on fire ... going to college in a city, and one of them is the proximity of food ... powder flour Ok. Plan acquired! Part 2 - Get in loser, we’re going

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... ? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a ... a month. I was barely reading the blogs, just trying to get two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  told me that whatever grade I get in this class: it's really not going to ... sympathize - I know how it feels to pour a lot of yourself into something, and ... you ask "SO HOW DID IT GO???" and you have to break the news, when

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  tell us how you will do? To get a more balanced view we ask you to also ... here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... Delta. This simply means Learning Delta. Before you write in to challenge

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else ... yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  how hard MIT is going to be? Do you think they're scared to get to ... way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days ... generally going out of our minds trying to get things done. This is ok though

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  give me the ability to run up walls. But the whole get up did greatly ... really cool.       Feel free to tell me how awesome I am. ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005