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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  canvas. I wondered if I, a human, couldn’t really understand art, what ... having that exhilarating freedom in college to figure out who I am and what ... lofi hip hop beats. There’s also a certain thrill in knowing that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  needed a host to fill in for a last-minute emergency, and I happened to be ... run into. A couple days later, I was in the basement of Walker Memorial ... song of the hour. In retrospect, I probably should've just done the show

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  time I checked in... We learned about hashing, and how it's a trade ... have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of ... spending 10-15 (count 'em 10-15!) hours on p-sets (I am a n00b. But still

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  sent me a few pictures of the quilt in progress. I gotta say, I still ... from when I got to rep Sony from the top of a moving bus in the LA Pride ... internship ever, and a shockingly great summer in Seattle that I never would

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... commented in their blogs about the recent snowfall. Here's what I saw through ... - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  clapping when somebody dropped a plate in the dining hall. [annotation note="I ... school, I discovered that the school library was built in the shape of a ... first week, I confided in Arystanbek, a teacher who taught math from grade

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  grades in classes and decide what I would need to NR a class. The ... easy 3) not there to help my grade, so I had a crisis in my dorm before ... lucky enough to have a day without finals in the middle of the week, so I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  . What followed was one of the most mortifying incidents I've had in a ... , eraser down... By the time I left, I had sung the song in a way that wasn ... nights. That said, I really should NOT do another musical in the fall. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  but somehow I ended up in Russia at a computer vision hackathon. It ... abroad to teach a STEM subject usually in their discipline. What’s cool ... abroad. I was in Pavia, a train ride away from Milan, living with two of my

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  something I don't think I see a lot of in most places, and it's what most ... my sophomore year of high school. I went to a small school back in ... cultural zeitgeist in South Dakota; I know a lot of people at MIT who have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  A few days ago I got back from what I can only describe as a four ... lectures in, and I was already given a few tangible ideas. Dinner was held in the main cabin with a roaring fire, and I felt like I had been

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  financial aid? Should you apply for it? What should I expect? Also, the local ECs will introduce themselves. They'll talk about what MIT looks for in ... at these meetings? What should you expect? First, the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what ... last two weeks I was in Seattle, the whole city was covered by a pungent

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a ... like that. It's meant to be more of a conversation, a give and take. What ... EC to find a time and place that works for your interview. In a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  . What I’m going to show below is that it is possible to find a treatment ... in some group, i.e., the probability that a randomly chosen individual ... . Much research that happens in economics is very different from what you

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  which I was just a spectator, we decided to try to name all the cities in ... through cities in Europe and I was, well, amazed. After a day of career fair ... what happened next, but I think these snippets do a much better job than

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in ... ASLDFJSDJKL" I screamed a lot. My parents, who were in another room, thought I ... might have felt oddly relatable to my angsty self, but in no way should I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  /Astro department. So while the boys were out having a good time, I slept in until 11 ... that all the stores I stopped in had air conditioning. I picked up a cute ... interviewed for my UROP, I was coming in with very little experience (just a 10

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but decided to blog it here as a real entry so that more folks would see it. I ... /she doesn't make it. In no way am I comparing my feelings to those of a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  , you should accept the offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it means making a deposit. If you are still interested in MIT, you should stay in contact with us. I'd recommend an email, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009