Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  complete life’s greatest project. So relax, but do write your college essay ... talk. Yes, time may be running out on your high school years, but it’s ... . Decide What’s Important. MIT allows applicants to enter five activities

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  CityLab — The Atlantic magazine’s website on the urbanized world. Amid covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth ... Important Question still revolves around whether his job is actually what he’s

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  West Side Story to swing to a celebration of the Roaring 20s. Other ... (of Broadway fame and the TV show Smash), the Boston Children’s Chorus ... take-and-bake pizza and s’mores fudgcicles, and just having a lazy day

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  he is very strong, so I pointed at him and announced that “he’s very ... ’re welcome”s and hurried out of Building 14 towards Walker Memorial, home of ... physicist," he revealed. "He’s a social worker!” After chatting for a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  some fun with them on the roof! Adam S. '14 wanted a photo of him in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at ... are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... requirement for this program, and I landed in Milan’s Linate airport on January

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  from Anna’s. It’s good to be back. Anyways, it’s IAP (Independent ... , working on personal projects, or just chillaxing), and here’s what I’ve been

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  inflationary cosmology and Anna H.'s academic advisor :D And now, onto black

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  have gone on. Everyone’s so passionate about their posts, and all of us ... , check out Allan’s blog post: https ... ” and wear it around my neck along with a reporter’s hat. Oh well, on to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  , let me leave you with a photo from this week's annual East

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  enough, a job offer found its way to my inbox in January. Here’s a normal ... again, I’ve been studying the language for five years; it’s no surprise that I feel so comfortable. My work is fun, but it’s those weird, kind

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  it’s for something important, like, recently, picking my little brother ... former with her legs swathed over her boyfriend’s body, occasionally ... the trunk did not have a seatbelt. New York City traffic. That’s it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  know this. And it's not a great feeling. What is a great feeling

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  [Editor’s note in 2023: This post contains outdated information. The ... that follow the common application. The MIT MYR is different, it’s in ... . The Midyear Update has a maximum of 250 words. I know that’s not a lot

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  Roy pulled up the app I made*, went to some detergent brand’s page, and ... lot of pset groups like to meet up in East Campus, because when it’s ... to me when it was time to work. So, it’s a good idea to occasionally

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  are blogging from Assam, India. The students of D-Lab’s Cycle Ventures ... Assam – it’s famous for its tea and it’s home to the hottest pepper in the ... needle nose pliers due to Micaela’s airport security incident. They are

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  surprisingly like a doctor’s waiting room with masks and red paint on the walls ... room. It looked surprisingly like a doctor’s office, complete with a blue ... up. “Is this going to hurt?” I said. “No,” he said, “it’s a marker.” He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren’s ... , and his colleague(s) had simply been deleted. Based on Fassbinder’s ... action scene of the group looks even more frantic when there’s two of

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  office, going to info sessions, and wading through the internet’s many ... that a good sense of humor is important.” And it’s not just engineering ... , and we need to be able to have fun and enjoy what we're doing—when that’s

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  think about it this way, it’s a striking transformation. What began, by ... built around profound sharing with supposedly strong ties. It’s a complete overhaul of the entire social ecosystem, and a complete reversal of Facebook’s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011