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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  for the one-semester class 10.26: Project Laboratory in Chemical ... are looking for work to get a feel for industry, then planning to return ... whom it's an elective. I have heard people ask whether, for this reason

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  for a total of 15 miles in Chicago, then 25 miles in Boston, then 50 ... that are hard to be proud of when they look like an almost-average on a ... ’s Association (SkateIA) to help grow the community. In becoming an instructor, I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Talent is everywhere. Opportunity should be, too A conversation with LIVE by Po-Shen Loh

  

  -Shen Loh, on expanding access to rigorous STEM learning for students in rural ... develop skills to make an impact in the communities they care about. NICOLE ... play an important role in bridging that gap, helping students build

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • August 3, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  , confident in my preparation for the following day. As predicted, there was an ... . Since I also have an interest in research, I’ve been looking into summer ... for two weeks I fed myself in a couple of different ways this IAP. For

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  relevant. Future topics for discussion that may or may not appear in entries ... those applying for the class of 2013: You're in the right place. Do you ... best way to find out. You're in for a good time! I'll see you guys in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  /received for 2017 aren’t in yet, but if I’ve managed to send/receive 4,122 emails ... your emails. Guess I’m just a sucker for Cool Data Things. In general ... STUFF GUYS WOOOO. This time, though, I cannot take any credit for the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  , guess what country I'm in: Looks like Europe, doesn't it! For a second ... displayed in the center of the cemetery. For your viewing pleasure, the ... About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  where the TA was doing an introduction for how to code in C++, and he ... student and they shot an incredulous look at my laptop. Finally, last ... that much, except for sometimes pretending I'm reading papers on an i

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  , sometimes even looking forward to another afternoon on the Charles River. In ... half of last week, I basically lived in Libraries and Study Rooms for the ... a country in a specific council (they're called "delegates"). For

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... ) did an internship at a policy think tank working on research for ... , for the time being, with being a work in progress; and with doing things

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... , and are worried if they will get here in time, we will accept an

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  is completely true: we are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers. As we say in our "Preparing For MIT ... looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  I have a friend named Charles Guan '11. He was my lab partner in 2 ... in his Facebook profile that led me to believe something big was going ... never really looked into what they meant. . . There are a variety of

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don't make mistakes; we ... around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them. I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  short for me to see into the eyepiece. And all the coats in the mouse room ... to. For many of us, our gender doesn't go very far in defining who we ... I've noticed, in my travels around the country and the internet, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  is an amazing, world-changing place. But it's not for everyone ... 't want to go to MIT, despite the nice scholarship thrown in for good ... that he knew what he was meant to do early in life. It looks like she

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So ... handling in hardware? Probability. So far it's been pretty interesting for me ... 's a real opportunity for it to become an actual product for Staples. 2

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  dorms when I came up here for an overnight visit, and I didn’t know that ... in the housing lottery form after looking through some photo galleries ... to just be themselves without looking down on them for not fitting some

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  in the style of an academic paper. Looking back I was very happy with ... interested in being an experimental physicist? This was surprising to me for ... learning step in the class. Despite this there is definitely an attitude of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  Techfair is here! Held right before classes start in the Spring ... biggest names in technology, student designers, innovators and entrepreneurs ... to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013