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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  : Registration began at 9am with a huge influx of people. It was great to see so many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to ... concluded with a huge Festival, which included... Liquid nitrogen ice cream

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... the Courseroad of all the classes I took at MIT, it's hard to pick out a ... of knowing things was fairly simple. I either knew how to solve a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce ... to hope that a return to something more like our normal lives may be ... , government and industry brought us to this pivotal moment – and where we go

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  what they learn to create an alpha prototype for a new product! It's an awesome hands-on class that gives students a taste of what it takes to ... next product might be. Orange team prepares to present. Ferno: a flat

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  ;waitlist admit rate" has ranged from 0% to 18%. Can you tell me where my ... admitted from the waitlist? First: there is a link to the waitlist ... , 2012. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  where we heard how a drug goes from an idea to production - lunch at De ... stuff. Day One: - we heard a talk from a postdoc, Lyle Simmons, on DNA repair. Lyle will also be teaching 7.341, Not Just a Bag of Enzymes: DNA

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes ... . Nice. She asks if I need a few minutes to lie down, but I’m already ... need to appreciate them. I pack a few clothes, since I've rather

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  I made two years ago. One that I had to design a user interface for ... game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person view, while a second person uses a tablet to highlight different

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  point decades: we want to build a site that a) provides useful information, with a human touch, to help people navigate the admissions process while ... have never thought they might be able to attend MIT see it as a place to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... plastic bags to do this? 2) A Bicycle Trailer -- A previous D-Lab student ... market or bricks to a building site? 3) Bamboo Matchsticks -- Bamboo

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  my acapella group to serving as the president of a dorm, or the vice ... positions. I've always put my election to these roles up to a couple of very ... "a leader," i.e., someone who has the people skills to make sure

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a ... actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not ... Several weeks ago MIT had their famous fall Career Fair where

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... framing this post in the form of a Letter To My Past Self. If 2016 Abby

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  Thrones and 2. somehow managing to traverse what feels like a tundra of a ... forehead has known since you were a child in addition to the freezing weather ... snowboarding down a mountain where I can experience them at maximum effect! So

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  questions as I can. It's a long entry! Before we get to that, though, I have ... essay has to be something to do with engineering or could I send in a ... just forgo the optional essay since I plan to send in a CD containing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  . And I did find a place to start collecting papers - Paperpile is this ... I've recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order ... Week 1: IAP Week 3: IAP Week 4: I spent a substantial amount of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  So tonight, I'm going to watch my friend Timmy '06 and the rest of ... excited being a Star Wars fan and all. I'll give my review of the ... interesting things I've seen done with butter in a very long time. Yes

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  pi. But, if you take a second or two to talk to them, you’ll find out ... is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... followed a friend to attend a 2.006 (Thermal Fluids Engineering II) lecture

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  given all of our supplies and an objective. We then had a month to build ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody? Anybody at all? 6.270 is a LEGO robot programming class that takes place

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008