Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  compelled to highlight a particular talent or skill that they believe is ... emphasizing that admissions officers do not expect, require, or secretly hope ... (for this cycle: November 1, 2021). If you’re applying through Regular

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  MIT, it’s that time flies by - whether it’s funtymz or ... natural example of self-assembly or self-organization. I picked oscillating ... ...because chances are, it will help me. (Last semester I spent 6 hours drawing line

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  Sciences (HASS) Philip Khoury, to help us talk about and address the quality ... in Victorian literature? Or in the history of Islamic architecture? Not ... , so they will be your only teacher in their subjects. But perhaps the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  will not be allowed to return to campus after Spring Break. Classes are ... break will all be online. We've been instructed to move out, packing as if ... will see again. There's barely any time for real goodbyes, for send

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... few years. What I did was analyze data from computer simulations of ... galaxy changed. Using this data, we got an idea of how dark matter fits

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  . What I like about Boston (or rather Cambridge) is that the message there ... engineer or artist or mentor or parent. these are all appealing in different ... great ambition that you are driven to accomplish... At best you will grasp

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  , but that’s the problem. I feel like I’m on a rollercoaster, or some ... ’s like I’m putting on a persona. Every word sounds fake. Or maybe I should ... … And I will, eventually. Hopefully. But for now, I’m going to tell you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  Spotify playlists will suffice, but there are some days that just call for ... Sting - My hall refers to this song as the “1E hall song”, although this ... in our Walounge, and we play it at the end of every party hosted by 1E

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield"), we admit about 1,400 students. However, it isn
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... , Kim happens to be a celebrity because she was a cast member on Season 1 ... “ambassadors” from different countries will work together on design projects that

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  that another black man or woman has been shot by the very people charged ... , or eating ice cream in his own home! Again- the fish rots from the head ... not racist when he’s asleep! Anyone who supports this man or excuses his

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  yet, but will become problems if ignored. Like having a credit card, which leads to a credit score, which leads to getting an apartment. Or going to the dentist every few months. Or buying new shoes to replace the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  access to Rosalind's data and photographs in slightly sketchy ways- not ... , because they couldn't refer to Rosalind's unpublished data without raising ... that anyone outside their research group had access to their data

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my ... middle of it, but it feels so good when you reach the goal. We are lean ... , and you are wandering around lost, I will bet you five dollars you can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... piano! In a marching band. We can't really afford a marimba or glockenspiel or anything, so, engineers that we are, we adapted a snare drum

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  stressful nights and over 1,700 miles on the Oregon trail, the finish line was ... heavy or dirty it seemed, and we began the long drive to Hastings ... laps in one day or 143 laps in two consecutive days to qualify for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... Meetings. Across the country (and across the world) there will be meetings of ... tips for CPW: If your parents will be joining you -- and they are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  particularly one who will be the first in his family to attend college full time. Zinser will graduate tonight having aced every college-level Advanced ... to sway him to choose MIT over Harvard or Stanford. He says a scholarly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  I'll tell you where I went, who I took a walk with, or what we talked ... vibration goes through the air, reaching your ears. You put together the ... series of sounds, words, or sentences: it's ideas going back and forth. And

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of ... high school. Just occasionally hearing the name being thrown around or ... school"]was willing to bet my right kidney[/annotation] I would not get in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020