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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of ... what kinds of things they talk about. A week and a half to the early ... Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  snowstorm of the season in Boston, and an expected ice storm in DC (who ever heard of an ice storm?!?—we don’t have that kind of thing in the West ... Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get ... the snow is while everyone else got sick of it three weeks ago. But can you blame me?  Just look at the results of last night's storm: ^ the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  are concerned, MIT was in the 1980s, as it is now, a school that offers ... regular action. Given the small number of international students we are allowed to admit each year, it is better for us to compare all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the ... after earning a degree. Then I came to the realization that I was unhappy

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone ... again was right smack dab in the middle of finals week. Sometimes I like ... succeed at the coherent part before the bottom half of my body gives way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... about our classes!)"]spending-most-of-the-hours-of-the ... days after the phone interview, one of us (Allan) got accepted! We weren

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  four-week term at MIT that fills the month of January. For more than 50 ... tours, recitals, and contests. Here are some offerings from over the years ... materials Beekeeping 101 Make it: Pinball Ikebana: The Art of Japanese
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The ... Chuck Norris himself, the last three weeks of the semester hit. Everything

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and ... 'll excuse myself for having some extra level of fondness for the 2017s. i don ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a ... activities midway of the San Francisco Bay Area. CAMBRIDGE FOLKS: I've got ... an AIDS Walk in Boston, and on the morning of the event, a bunch of us

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  . Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to offer as many interviews as we can, we have limited availability and may ... available. ECs typically use the email address you provided on your
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  [/annotation] to the field. I am not someone who dreamt of being a scientist as a ... think I liked science that much; it was just the area of the pool that ... something I would put at the top of the list of things I am most passionate

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  West Campus for the rest of my years. When they say "Mens et Manus", they ... ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow ... method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  Cline made the alumni of Stuyvesant currently attending MIT (Stuyvesant being the majority of the room) speak, as well as Alums from other high ... of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  the answers. I used to save up questions and answer a bunch of them at ... about varsity athletics. I filled it out and mailed it in on the day of ... MIT. (Although I had clearly documented the MASSIVE amount of time that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  my early departure from the west coast while my closest high school ... the wheel after six months of no driving and navigate the roads by a map ... safe in the world, I've never been that afraid of uprooting my life and

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • January 6, 2014