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• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics ... activities -- make sure you convey that to us. When you describe your extra-curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior ... about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  curve. This curve will be what Gabe uses to decide whether he should get ... works. It takes another three pages to derive the social demand curve ... vaccine has on other people. In order to reach the socially optimal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  tables and are asked to solve problems too complicated for one. So, they ... ," he said. "I began to see that there was an option that I had never considered -- teaching physics at a high school level. That would allow me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks ... the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  to Ruth '07's column from last week. Two people complimented me on my ... where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  noted artists to campus to work with MIT students. The program is called Artists in Residence, and has been bringing artists to Cambridge for more ... the opportunity to work closely with Tan Dun and also with Guillermo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse ... pathogen that is closely related to Escherichia coli and infects the colon of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show ... student has to take. The strongest examples of problem set classes are the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  that stuck with me. such things tend to stick with me. we were talking ... the word. literally, african american refers to people who live in or ... black people can relate to each other and speak to each other - it's a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn ... was kind of a bath of crap (my roommate, Sneha ’13, can attest to this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... out to be invisible until right after everyone leaves the dinner table ... -sweet BBQ sauce that makes me want to weep honeyed, tangy tears of the same

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  realized that according to many theories, we shouldn't be seeing anything ... kind of conference I was attending. But when I told him I was going to a ... novel to come out this summer. I checked into the hotel and went across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  ... which just goes to show what a great job the acoustics engineers did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Rambax and Galak Tika used to rehearse in Building N52 – a 10

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  Sloan lab that I stumbled upon during a desperate mid-April I need-to-get ... people organizing my floor's video. My friend sends me some clips for me to ... quality content as I go. It's really nice to see the videos; I miss my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... updates that you want us to know (things like awards, achievements, etc ... obligated to fill up the form—it’s okay if all you’re sending us is semester

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... psets all night it becomes much too easy to skip meals and rely on fast ... made the largest difference in terms of my day to day happiness it's not

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a ... want to be a part of our community. They are attracted to the innovative

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010