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• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... enough to get you into MIT. Invariably, someone takes that statement and ... cooler you could be doing with your time that will do far more to help your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  her first magical semester, but somehow settled to live from deadline to ... thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is just another roof to pass. The Frosh counts the days until departure from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art ... clothing that reflected the weather to a five-person dress that turned into a living space. The first piece down the double escalator runway was a

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  and Ben), the first step to getting into medical school is submitting an ... schedules. First off, in order to even take the MCATs, you need to have taken ... amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  Technology Ring. The committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver ... York proposed a mascot to President Richard Maclaurin. We first thought ... MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  to MIT students generally and first-years like me. Since starting this ... signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos ... theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... encouraged me to try again. I have been delighted by your nerdiness and amazed

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking ornaments off the tree to pack them away while drinking cocoa and listening to

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for ... big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community from Chancellor Clay last week: Dear MIT Community, In response to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to ... kinds of things appeal to them, and how do they interact with their fellow

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  first episode tomorrow (watch it now by clicking here). “Eight high schoolers design and build machines — from dragsters to an automatic pancake ... , Design Squad cast members learn to think smart, build fast, and contend

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth's room with one thousand inflated balloons. My flight back to Harrisburg

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  mine) According to our records, you have not completed the General ... total of 8 Physical Education points. It was your responsibility to ... : WHATEVER) It is imperative that you take steps to complete this requirement

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  happy, as it will be the first time in my life that I'm not home to help ... 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

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike up Massachusetts Avenue to see just how far it goes into Boston. Turns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science ... this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation, so will I. My wonderful parents are coming up to visit this weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  to the next pictures from there if needed!) https ... . The screaming kind’s pretty cool.” Last week brought me to Copenhell, the biggest music festival in Denmark dedicated to metal. Tickets have

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into ... ’s the inside via webcam shots… Someone decided to put all the pages from ... – that’s how I function. Using a stool to press down on a drying foam

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  ?" Good question! First part first. Some of my favorite classes at MIT, from a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005