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• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in December, when EA decisions were first released. As a result, some of these ... terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... classrooms around the building. It was pretty busy for the duration of the two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  -and-a-half, but no less than two purposes for existence, both of which are exciting ... the dregs of October, I've finally decided that today is the momentous ... lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... ) but also what you didn't. I knew, of course, that MIT students got to ... 't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post ... One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... clear cool night, talking about life beneath the stars - a little piece of ... start my second year here on 2E. I really like it here - mainly because of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  .e. a trial, etc.). IDHR also offers various support resources outside of ... -Descriptive Mentions of Homophobia, and Discussion of Trauma ((Some Author’s Commentary.)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to make, but one

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is NEET?

   School of Engineering. The program aims to educate young engineers to build ... personal and interpersonal skills. Students will get an SB degree from the department they will be majoring in and a NEET Certificate in one of these
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  IPSCO.  Apparently it's what these southerners call us northerners down ... student. Whatever that terrifying cluster of words means.  Basically, many times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  "]probably won't get a degree[/annotation] out of it. But I know I'll try to do ... 'm preserving this image of a CHILD by embedding it here[/caption] On June 5th, 2016, I left behind most of my remaining earthly possessions and hopped

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering ... University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched ... month, after our first year of having a Maker Portfolio, I gave a talk at World Maker Faire New York about how we admit and empower these kinds of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  you out of your reading chair and into an adventure, each applicant's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of this library, because I'm somewhere in Texas, or Jersey, or California

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  , here is a good summer list of restaurants for students (and campus visitors!) to try. They're many of my favorite places! Cafe Baraka: A ... in all of Boston. 225 Hampshire St Cambridge, MA T: Red Line to Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior ... I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  Well, today was my last day of class as an undergrad. Technically the last day of class is tomorrow, but I only have 7.28 (molecular biology ... think I've attended a grand total of one since the end of my freshman year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  . Regardless of what you major in, or how many degrees you leave with, or what ... downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... MIT email addresses, and even then, you could only see the profiles of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  Tastykakes, a regional brand of pastry that costs about 50 cents in Southern ... very nearly attained twenty (oh dear!) years of age, I had not yet ... way out of Giant, on an impulse, I stuck a dollar into the PA Lottery

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... some of my friends consisted of: California State Nintendo Champion... a ... I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007