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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... myself really actually relaxing in the mountains of New Hampshire. Now, if you know even the slightest bit of me, you'd know that I really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my ... hug them. Not sure if that last sentence was full of wisdom or just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the ... been a core course in mechanical engineering at MIT. Our own Dean of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  put my head down and sort of dig into the work, and although there have ... summer. One thing I've noticed this summer is the presence of what I will call Big Feelings™, in the sense that I feel like many of the experiences

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  -four designers from MIT, Harvard, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. One semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting ... the other UA Sustainability committees, the audience, and a panel of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  to try so many new and wildly amazing experiences here, some of which I’ve recorded in the semi-permanent realm of the blogosphere (who are we kidding ... the future. Finals week will mark the end of an era and slowly, one by

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu coding in history class...instead of playing Starcraft FIRST Robotics and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... days... enjoy them! 390 --> 522 I've been noticing lots of ... of EA admits from last year's 390 to this year's 522. Fear not, we have

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about Oklahoma City, the events of September 11th or Virginia Tech, the closure

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  discussed just that kind of research from MIT. The first article, about ... occurred millions of years later than fossil bones suggest, and the break may ... Institute of MIT and Harvard was headed up by David Reich (also an assistant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer ... inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting ... times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and are made

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if you're my mother) or weird (if you're the rest of the general public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  , we have a variety of programs to choose from. MIT’s first-year learning communities offer a distinct kind of learning environment that provides students with the opportunity to study and socialize as part of a
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... decadent brunches, going shopping, so on and so forth. One of our many stops that weekend was the Richmond Night Market, a local attraction full of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• 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 ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune, Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until

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

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  Today I attended the Network of Sloan Undergraduate Women (NSUW) event Coffee Chat with Professors. NSUW is a sponsored group of the Sloan ... , Kimberly Thompson Here's a little bit about each of the 5 professors: REENA

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... can also be full of unexpected growth. We adapt and continue onward

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... time to nourish yourself, it can also be full of unexpected growth. We

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  considering many aspects of the early MIT education, including not only ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General ... ) compose the majority of the academic coursework taken in a student's first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions profession, and one of those texts that reads basically as true today as it did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018