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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  admissions blogger Bryan B. '07, now a professor at MIT. You should read a ... from here – I invite you to be a part of COVID-19: Vaccines and prospects ... A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a ... attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took ... Stewart Gardner museum for free (you can also do the same at the nearby

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  at all where it usually is, but I know because I've put it there and I ... room looks like a mess, but in reality it is my organized mess. I know ... a plan, without thinking, just feeling it as you go. It was completely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  disappointment after a rejection is “I would be concerned if you weren ... is a true gem in its entirety, but the three main points that Petey ... control, will work against my favor. All I can do is identify those factors

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years ... VA...being its 3:18AM. But you can see the space marked off with tape

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a ... spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January? How about combining a study-abroad experience with an internship in
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  is cool with you dropping classes 11 weeks into a 14-week semester. It ... paper and do that pset when you have a puppy to play with. Thanksgiving ... ? Maybe you completed a couple of midterms and a chunk of psets in a class

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  conditions here in Cambridge. The good news is there's not much that you can ... 'easter is a big snowstorm and a virtually seasonal aspect of New England life ... issue. A more realistic threat is that of having nothing to do. This

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  '12 had created a job-awesomeness formula for me. To understand it, you ... your weekends, a rough estimate says your job is ~65.27% awesome. Work is attached. Yep, this pretty much made my day. And now you can all use this

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Human Genome Research Institute? Thanks a lot for your help." This is an ... database where NIH scientists can search through different fields and find ... across your information are so low! What you have to do is browse the NIH

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  -respect for watching reality shows. My hypothesis is that you can create a ... is actually a really exciting opportunity. To my knowledge, there has ... check out this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you can have a guest entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  plastic balls on you. And you. And you and you and you. Yeah, that's a lot ... having a life will apply wherever you go to school next year - but you ... all about MIT, and neither are you. There are 35 gigabytes of music on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  , there's only so much you can gather from small black letters pasted ... again! There's always something going on at MIT, so any time is a good time to visit. And if you really can't make it, no worries. I lived

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  requirement, where students have to take a certain amount of HASS classes before ... ? Revolutions. Beer. Pigeons. At 3 a.m., I wrote a synopsis for a story where ... ? More like Cringebridge" is [annotation note="If you're reading this

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to ... you have a problem) and have one page left to write on the linguistics

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  MIT is a part of the same world it is disrupting. Whether you want to or not, there is no way to simply put your head down in college and learn a ... experience is a part of the real world, and the things you learn (or don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  answer is always the same: "Whoever can write most compellingly about you ... thing you can do is just tell us, in the additional information section ... focus on things you can control. As someone who now writes a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  opened up, where you can sign up for a slot and you have the gym to ... and can go consistently again, but for now, the apartment gym is a great ... this to a student. Perhaps they should change that. It is now Friday

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  didn't properly experience the lecture and can't blog about it, there's a ... /editing/etc. If you're curious, here is the Buzzfeed article I mentioned (I'm still ... the video and there has been a crazy amount of MIT-related things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  goal was to survive MIT, and I did that. I think there's a statistic ... Lectures MIT is a hard school, and the lectures aren't always that ... to go, I know this is a little bit of an ego issue for me, so I'm going

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022