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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  lined up a month into senior year, almost a year in advance. For the ... As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms/lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  . Dennis Hopper was an actor who was in a few James Dean films and believed ... girl scowling at the camera in a dress, I figured Dennis at least looked ... always count on him to share an empathetic look with, especially when the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  baseball cards in my kindergarten days. I guess the whole point is MIT looks ... to spend countless hours in lab is also an extremely important factor ... , and got H A's in my entire life. I applied and got into MIT. Someone

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  ) Tower Bridge, for comparison A rather progressive afternoon tea in the ... falling down? It really was sinking into the River Thames, so in 1968, the city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in ... converged again for this one class. Walking into lecture the first day was an ... pepper them with questions – I take about 18 laps around the room in an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  it is possible for an applicant to send in 'too many' supplementary ... any explanation)? And btw, I think a rocker for an admissions officer is ... applying to MIT as a Freshman for the 2nd time in a row. I sent 3 letters of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  , I could have looked for alternative housing so that I wouldn't spend ... their plans for the fall. In the end, I felt that MIT provided very little ... 't have enough time to look for internships or make other arrangements. I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  contributes for a covenant that goes deeper than just living there."]an ... was written by Mark Adamo in the early 2000s as an adaptation of the ... sets the groundwork and frame for who I want to become and be.  Looking

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  , most of the tools would end up damaging the scarves in some way. For ... of silk! For good measure, I also collected an FTIR spectrum of a 100 ... scarves arriving in a box that literally said “CHEMICAL TEXTILE” in big bold

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  need to decide which classes to take and where that will lead me. That in itself has been an necessarily more stressful decision than it needed to be ... relies on resources - time and people - as fuel for information. I’m always

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  our tent. I finally found the perpetrator: an old man in a yellow rain ... . “Yes! We’ve been looking all over for it. Thank goodness.” He dropped the ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  , hopefully we'll be nearby in September or October. Look for the fall visit calendar to be released later in the summer. We look forward to seeing you! ... Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Texas and Arizona. Details

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  Journal (MURJ) is looking for submissions (due October 10th) for our Fall ... news headlines include: *Macular Degeneration Induces Reorganization in ... , Say Researchers, Challenging Previous Theories *Compound in Carrots

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  laundry server for the latest news on conditions in Random's washers and ... comes in the form of [email protected]. Reuse is an MIT-exclusive mailing ... fact that the ceremony was in half an hour because we were in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  At MIT, every student has an advisor -- in fact, throughout their ... starts, everyone who opted in is assigned to a seminar and an advisor ... , and that's chill. I opted for an advising seminar because I like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  for programmable system on a chip) – an incredibly versatile little ... placed the buttons in a way that was most comfortable for me to hold. Only ... noticeable, but in my case, it just makes the graphics look... kind of bad

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered ... an option in the immediate future. This is what is supposed to happen ... at the beginning of May, when an enrollment decision must be made

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  . For the most part, we’ll treat your questions like they were written in ... ’ve played varsity soccer here for four years!) MISTI (internships in Spain ... about that) Greek life (I’ve been in a sorority for all four years and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  to grades? For example, would a B+ in an application be viewed in the ... grounds for a second look at the application (or even termination) if the ... and program one points in his/her application? Is it possible for

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006