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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work. This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e ... Denmark, 1 pm for those on the west coast. One poem per week, with different ... , the writing of which resembles pulling teeth but creates a satisfying

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  separate according to density and the initial degree of intermixing**. Voila ... travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished exams underneath the melting clocks), there resides a species of creative

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries ... insane, so it's back to productivitiy! Time to churn out the dozens of blog ... days (I pretty much made a dinner out of Sun Chips and pineapple soda the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... tempted by the fruits of Silicon Valley or otherwise find their passion ... ). One can of course see that from my resume, but the ring has occasionally

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... the 'Food' section of Pinterest lately. Might make the following this ... becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and ... ” made of other types of cells to faithfully recreate the organs ... Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he came to MIT to pursue a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT Economics Department in the past 5 years: 5 Number of John Bates Clark Medal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading ... neat (and Emmy-nominated!) series called The Secret Life of Scientists ... version of her research? ...and here's the Mollie-cheerleader origin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  create classes in everything from "Alebgra 1" to "The Atomic Science of Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the interesting offerings in this year's Spalsh course catalogue. Well, a couple of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... , keep these hints in the back of your mind. If your high school / current ... everything the night before. It saves you a lot of stress, since you won

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design ... ? Can I add it in Section 13 of the MIT Application ?(where they ask you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  happens to be the official name of the course. The class has been offered ... Hi, everyone! Sorry that I vanished off the face of the earth. That ... -known class around the Institvte. As many of you know, 6.001 was a class

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most daunting challenges. From addressing the energy needs of tomorrow to ... the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  the wide range of resources MIT has to offer. If you're applying to ... Career Week. Events of Libraries Week include: Photos with Tim the Beaver ... accused me of having with the Lewis Music Library.) Events of MISTI Week

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  students on the waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those ... off the waitlist, and wishing them the best of luck at the college they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  Today I attended the Network of Sloan Undergraduate Women (NSUW) event Coffee Chat with Professors. NSUW is a sponsored group of the Sloan ... , Kimberly Thompson Here's a little bit about each of the 5 professors: REENA

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  (we cover the equivalent of one week in normal semester schedule every day). 496. Other than the classes, there's plenty of time every day to ... sense of the daily newspaper, the subway announcements, and having 2-hour

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved ... openminded, I was initially pretty opposed to the idea of joining a fraternity ... out from the beginning. Personally, I've gotten a lot out of my

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006