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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  (I read that in Nature last week while eating lunch at the lab. Guess I ... , drinks fine wines, and drives fancy cars. I'm not really sure how he got ... ? Cause, I mean, heaven knows I eat and sleep and whine in the lounge and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  presentation. Finished at 3AM - I forget how productive I am in the wee hours of ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time ... Hrabowski's incredible speech, after which Marilee and I went in search of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  whoever was being Tim the Beaver in the picture I took during the chaotic ... smiling if he tried!). In true presidential fashion, I even got to take a ... first. Now I can say that I’ve actually been Tim the Beaver…how cool is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  ,'' Elizabeth Lozada said. ''I just remember thinking it would be the premier ... said. ''Now, I'm finally going where I want to be going.'' He'll live in ... how much they'll miss having him around. ''I've tried to prepare myself

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  disruptive, and I don't know how to keep 100 kids in line. They might find ... Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... , unfortunately, and the remaining slices are covered in Balsamic vinaigrette. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  lectures relatively straightforward in terms of how they explained the ... over CNNs, VAEs, and GANs in one day, and of course by the next morning I ... -specific applications. I found these to be very hit or miss with how informative they

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  December – and 2010 – I was briefly back in the UK, now my second home, where ... interned in the city, I simply revisited the street where I lived and took in ... unspectacular). I stayed with a gracious friend in the East End (with whom I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  bit and here I was again, on a cold, snowy morning, in the town of ... practical knowledge, experience, and vision. How would they react to our ... [by Patrik Kunzler] Over the summer I had the good fortune to spend

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  thinking, How in the world did they make that in a semester? Now I know ... . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super ... . Come and see how we did it. 6 opportunities in 6 minutes: 12 weeks until

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in ... workings of my brain. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m enrolled in 24.09 Minds

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  that when I got my admission letter in the mail, at first I was excited ... number one question I get from students is some version of: “How did I get ... decades afterward, once I started working in admissions - we all just

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  're not used in all exams, and actually, I think I use them more as an ... Today I am hijacking Laura's entry on tests, because a) it's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  night was a luxury. The single class that I took in January, which was ... that my score is lower. Edward persists in disagreeing. We make a bet. I ... say that I have a plan to make sure that I will be Perfectly Fine in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  , so I guess I'll find out how much I've learned pretty soon. [In case ... of how to prepare for MIT tests in general. Although I had been ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely wanted something to do.  MIT is no walk in the park and I wanted an ... , writing and discussion." but I find this definition is lacking in a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties

  

  our MIT alumni have thrown in various cities around the country (and around the world)? If so, how was it? I'd love to hear how it went. Also, if anyone took any pictures, I may be able to post a few here on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• 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 / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Classes are in full swing, though I’m just getting acclimated to how much ... claimed just 30 minutes in -22 degree weather would be sufficient for ... . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  I thought it would be good to share here too for those of you who may still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have ... time on Admissions :)  _________ When I was in grade school, I distinctly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my ... laugh upon the discovery of MIT greek life (but here I am, in a sorority ... my knowledge in general? Should I order coffee or tea? In the end

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012