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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... from MIT and immediately went back to my old summer job from high school ... it. It's infamous for the inordinate amount of time that it requires of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... reduction and sustainability. Student designers from MIT and other schools in the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... we are trying to integrate VR tech into high school classrooms. In this ... organelles of the cell. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then ... than just an aesthetic wrapper, but rather as the core of a product that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes ... of moving objects. Rolling, oscillating, and spinning. You name a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of ... Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... Secondary School Reports and Transcripts. Please be patient. If the tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather ... of my friends here in the office is Mikey Yang. Mikey is an MIT alumnus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  school here, know what it was like and what kind of people and ... The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... repeat of what you wrote in your application. It will mention some of those

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  -hi-uh" -- Adam always makes fun of my *nonexistent* accent after I've been at home ... trombone in the high school marching band, and they're marching in the Rose ... night was the annual MIT Club of Central Ohio holiday get-together, where

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  changes to undergraduate life. Having come out of high school with ... were that I went to school with. That year, with the announcement of the ... small island of paper known as problem sets, tests, term papers, etc I

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  Bridge in the middle of winter. Tell people you go to school "in Boston ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student receives a stack of flyers and documents and charts and posters as soon as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... surprise goodie bag left at 3am on the the doors of East Campus residents

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  representative of the rest of my blogs =D  not to be cliche, but there is truly no better time to have friends than in college. the experience of living ... "]rpm[/annotation] dinner. the timing of it was lowkey early for me (4:30, considering that

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... house where cats will come out of room C only if either room A or room B

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it ... latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture ... a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all ... relationship with mit like on one of those public facebook post thingies it ... philosophy -- it was everything i ever wanted in a university. but i kind of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019