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  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  active members. MIT QSN is a relatively new group on campus; some of the ... again and again was “The people.” Of course at that time, I had no idea ... everything that I do, much of which I could almost only do at MIT. A little

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  whatever we wanted. I stared at the blank piece of bristol paper and thought ... at MIT. These classes aren't for credit and if you're an undergraduate ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  senior editor of MIT News at MIT Technology Review, respectively). We ... went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a SHASS UROP at MIT, read on below! Phase 1: Being a Marvel Fan & an MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  't recall the names of these people except the guy right next to me (he's at ... them are now at MIT! (there are 7 here now, out of the entire program ... and being surprised at the amount of technical knowledge I acquired

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  , Pat You can go see more of Pat's work at the Media Lab on his project ... decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer ... I did here and here, as proof of what I usually say on Pi Day: If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video ... of scope offered by our humanities courses, which is sort of the best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... commitments are taking shape. My new room has thin yellow curtains and at least ... carrying the weight of this school. — In the week I've been back at MIT, I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  of things like "can eat five plates of food at dinner",* "can make ... free shirts. Just look at my haul: And, of course, I also did ... If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT. I arrived at MIT bushy tailed and bright eyed at the prospect of ... Lab at MIT's Center for Cancer Research studying the delivery of small ... would encourage all of you to have at least one UROP over the course of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... Enjoy a sunny Sunday afternoon at the home of an MIT Alum in Phoenix. Tuesday Enjoy one of two meetings held in the greater DC Metro Area at the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  comprehensive list, but there should be at least one useful tip. Think of this ... get a sense of what classes are offered in each major. What sounds cool ... resources MIT offers didn't just come out of thin air; they're there for a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  couple times after that, once at a journalism convention in senior year of high school and most recently during my trip to new york for spring break ... anime phases. she visited me at the beginning of the school year, last

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  good hopes and  Imaginations of the universe,  Digits, letters, and ... the STEMs… I’m from a piece of each of us at MIT, and beyond this ... for sure. But at least, I’ve now got a new hypothesis:  Maybe the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  has gathered at the front of the room to talk with the speaker and each ... universality. According to Anonymous Fourth Guy, "young people are terrified of ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  at you. Pursuing the simple ideal of being a good student forced me to ... the implications of the affordable care act and universal health care in ... with in this project. It even created a whole new side of the insurance

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater ... our wait list, 14 will be offered admission. At that point, our wait ... The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... paradoxes at the intersection of math, music, and art, and their implications ... Summer 2015, I’ll think about the snapping turtle at Walden, the peak of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  something productive at work. As fun as being in a new place, surviving on ... For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  workers at spas he frequented--leans into the hypersexualization of Asian ... little space as possible offers the best protection. Both of them were ... witnessed firsthand the deadly consequences of protest. Last summer, I was at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... its instructors were wonderful at supporting everyone with all levels of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014