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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  commonly known here as Reg Day. Morale is at a local maximum. Provisions are ... open, because that is how you make friends in college. I met with my ... told me that, why yes, it is, in fact rather “difficult”... Sweet! (He

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that ... Society, AWS, Zeta Beta Tau, and he is a Discover Biology FPOP Coordinator

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... th of July celebrations is that the Boston Pops do a special, less ... river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of Boston is very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... -Thanksgiving dinner last night. We had two turkeys! In this picture, everybody is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  . I’m in a small town in Russia. Why I’m here is a complicated question ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the ... , I attended a few Zoom sessions in the morning for [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  , etc. I agree that it is easier said than done, but I'm in the same boat ... to go back in time and correct mistakes or retake tests. 3. A little ... I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  (a factor we would normally not consider since it is so negligible in ... be intrigued. First, a brief introduction. Sanjoy Mahajan is an ... , Prof Mahajan is also a familiar and welcome figure. He has

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  , in a sense, they're both oversold—the truth, I think, is unsatisfying ... seeking, a question to which there is no right answer except the one which ... a graduate dorm now, which is still a dorm, but I have my own bedroom

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  --the current working design is a bit messy at the moment. The camera will be made ... students came in to build their own speakers out of MDF as part of a class ... everywhere. Zach Bjornson ’10 is building a replica of the 1736 Hemsch

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  holistic admissions process, we're much more interested in how an applicant "fits" with our culture than if they were No. 1 in their school. If your school doesn't calculate GPA, please don't convert your grades to a U
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  if there is a party near you! Here is a little taste of some of the ... : Sing-along in San Diego with one of MIT’s very own a cappella groups, the Logarhythms Sunday: Grab a slice of deep-dish pizza in

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  /gardens: And here is Kayla climbing at a local climbing gym in Montreal ... system, so all signs are in metric units. Also, everything is in French in ... were not just in Canada for the cats, so we had a shopping day with a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... , defer, deny) is. Because we have a clear idea of what we are looking for ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  ’s courses and majors and lays it out in a beautiful pastel graph that ... . CourseRoad is a wonderful tool because it lets you toy with alternate ... . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  Saturday at the Moakley Courthouse in Boston. The event was a smashing ... courthouse. Not very impressive, is it? Every guest had to pass through a ... , turkey, stuffing, pasta. The event space was in a gorgeous arc shape

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  between now and departure stands a few classes

  

  . It scarcely feels like what it is. Four years felt like just a few ... Mechanical Systems This is a lab requirement for my mechanical engineering ... minor! It has a lot of math, but mostly calculus and algebra. The work is

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a ... you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their ... I was like, “College students have like 3 classes a day that start in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  Today we're releasing our decisions regarding transfer applicants who ... about those we could not. As a former transfer student myself (not to MIT), I know that this process can be a difficult experience. For those of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  Today we're releasing our decisions regarding transfer applicants who ... about those we could not. As a former transfer student myself (not to MIT), I know that this process can be a difficult experience. For those of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  live on campus or in Cambridge – and it is very likely you are a male ... scooter battery is currently being held in place by a roll of duct tape ... .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024