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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... the back of a stranger’s car at the crack of dawn on New Year’s Day. We ... , along with a letter describing all the exciting new science happening at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  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 ... students at MIT, and next week she and I will be presenting about our Maker

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

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  me in particular. The Crescent connecting New York City and New Orleans The Palmetto/Silver Service connecting New York City and Savannah/Miami The City of New Orleans connecting Chicago and New Orleans The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  startups fail but at MIT that number is more like 50%. I bet another one of ... came to claim their diplomas, I lost track of my friends as I was taking ... front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom."  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

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

  

  with a complimentary reporter from the New York Times added at no extra ... lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at ... 're interested) in the internal piano of my soul. I should confess now that at the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  ball, on the other hand, is a ball only held at the end of the academic year. The ball is organized by any one of the colleges of the University ... for May ball and its fireworks! Old friends and new friends at St

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  trip to Milan from Boston THROUGH New York is significantly more expensive than flying round trip straight from New York. Does that make any ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  COVID -- after all, the majority of the nicer things about New Vassar are ... miss Nadia, whose cool, relaxed New York energy was simultaneously ... on the other side. I sit in the cold, unfeeling halls of New Vassar

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  online forums, you can't help but wonder at your chances of getting into ... through your mind. Equally, at the other side of the dinner table, your ... would you negate your own individuality at the risk of becoming another

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities are on subway lines ... . At the conclusion of the tour, student tour guides lead a tour of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  highly lethal form of brain cancer, uptake drugs containing boron at higher ... Nuclear Reactor Laboratory was selected as the leading laboratory of the New ... opportunities offered." *Source of BNCT Picture: URL: http://www.cdic.bnl.gov/bio_bnct.htm*

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  has been owning at life lately and winning tons of awards...more about ... repeating our new mottos: "D is for diploma." "Mystery Hunt - Fun = Thesis ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  endnotes at the bottom of the blog. We use this feature — which we developed ... translate to academic success at MIT if you cannot account for testing. Of ... offered at your high school, and there are immense disparities between

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  . Levitt teaches a class on the economics of crime at University of Chicago ... (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  heels of highly charged incidents, from Georgia to New York, that ... ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis ... , and students of MIT: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  represented state, as usual, is California (12%). Number 2 is New York at about ... had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... Class of 2009 14% admit rate. We received 10,443 applications and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  beautiful Thursday in the New England fall. I walked out of the Convention ... my UROP research at another university’s undergraduate research ... of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... simply happens to attend one of the craziest universities in the world. I ... of the University of Notre Dame. Although I've eagerly adopted Boston

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  from the New York Times, so I'm basically a crucial pillar of American ... the announcement of a new iPhone, but then I thought, maybe not everyone ... In case you haven't heard, MIT has a new president-elect! This

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  author of the book is basically a complete jerk (from New York, no surprise ... King's College, even though most of the people at King's didn't even know ... rifles, indiscriminately firing at a bunch of unarmed students for a total

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006