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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to know that there are other people in the same boat, and that feeling ... is to cut myself a break and realize that it’s ok to feel uncertain and ... see waiting there for me. My hope is to feel the same way as an incoming

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  and is spreading at a rate of 28 to 100 kilometers a year. Even the ... Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... and applying them to other organisms—perhaps even humans. The axolotl is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  being human and for recognizing that I am the same. I had a long response ... the same answer, because it's the only answer I have to offer. And here ... committee decisions on demand. But often there is not a specific reason that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  required standardized tests. There are a number of options to fulfill the ... date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there ... the past preferred to release decisions on a Saturday; December 13 or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  , there was so much to do and learn this summer that I guess the best I can ... once home to the Prime Meridian and is the world's oldest working ... note that one of the first things I learned when I got to Paris is that

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  puzzles. The opening round is often a little easier than the others and it ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red ... , which allowed us to use the Projection Device, and I got a very excited

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  vibrant city life that is missing in the increasingly desolate and dying ... restaurant on the 56th floor of a building overlooking the city to one side and ... , and churros at a taqueria. From there, we walked back over the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  is my friend Anna.” I thought, friend?! And then it occurred to me that ... came, I was grateful to have that support network there; a little ... influence on my choice to apply and ultimately to matriculate. I hope that the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  Rodrigo is an MIT senior. He worked in the same office as me for a summer or ... called MIT Imagination. A lot of work went into that video. Elizabeth and ... 's nine months. That's like a human baby. And like a human baby, this big

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  , which is very cool (and a bit scary)! Although there are still a few kinks ... probably not the best way to do so). I was a bit disappointed that Google had ... Gemini) uses up-to-date information and seems to know how the new Course 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... people pictured (I'll only publish first names), and any reactions to the ... (or download) 'Good Will Hunting' and all the same rules apply as above

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team ... haunt me every year since I've been in college) and apologized to the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a ... want to be a part of our community. They are attracted to the innovative

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  friendly, they both said. "I think we push each other and that is a positive ... ," said Taylor. "We are going to a school with the best academics and a ... Burfield play the same sports and share the same friends. But unlike most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  lost her grandfather to the same stinking virus. And as you may have ... live with it. In the meantime, all I can do is hold on to the people that ... to do exactly just that. On Getting Burnt  At the same time that my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  . And where better to study a language and a country than by being there ... Anna's asked me to write for her blog. And, since this is Anna, there ... about the humanities and half as a coping mechanism to handle the eight

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  to name the dragon "Angelina," because it is both hot and kind of scary ... . There are two parts to this entry. Part the First: Our Students So here ... '08 drew attention to the fact that it was, in fact, moving, smelling

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  , whenever I tell someone that I'm a physics major, I feel the need to somehow ... to do with that department, but is instead housed through the MIT Quest ... myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  using the same username and password that you use to log into your My ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... represent some of the best and brightest stars of our future. We are honored

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011