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• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  that it was at his house, which was quite dark, and seemed kinda scary to ... MIT just before the onset of World War II, and his MIT, while having the ... example, there were many fewer humanities courses, student activities, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , from times I'd scrape my knee and then keep running, tearing the wound ... anyway, so I took a day off and hoped it would go away. But it didn't, and then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  degree. During his freshman orientation, Loren and I met up to talk about ... /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour, and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... test yesterday morning, and a final assignment for something else due a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  , before it was bought and subverted by Buzzfeed, was a truly delightful ... -style Twitter bots, which actually do take source texts and produce randomly generated tweets inflected by the voice of various academics, journalists, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started in October ... Sferza and Professor Carlo Ratti. THe collaboration already brought to Sant ... Dinca, Department of Chemistry, and the “Mechanosynthesis Group”, led by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  all 50 states, 63 countries, and nearly 900 different high schools ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep hitting ignore and ignore and ignore until i actually need to deal with it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  delays and disruptions from the ongoing pandemic.  In the last few weeks ... and an aging parent and hasn't been able to get it done yet. Judging by ... application process, and believe that, as is true at some schools (but not us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  surgeries and hold a defribillator in my hands and say "Clear!" As a kid, I jumped around and had a tour of careers: judge, astronaut, movie star, video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon ... Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through the 2A program, and ... Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP). Her thesis advisor is Dr

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  degree of arbitrariness to the numbers that demarcate and discretize the ... I’m in my Uncle’s home in Virginia, typing the word ‘word’. And now ‘now’. And at this moment, ‘moment’. My throat predicted that truly awful

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  degree program, and head into the “real world”, by March 2013. Prior to ... was literally and – perhaps more importantly – figuratively a one ... away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... people talking about “engineering leaders” and “engineering leadership.” I ... between generic leaders and engineering leaders? Truth be told, I’m still a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  to my former desire to earn a degree in Chemistry (HAHAHAHAHA) and ... My name is Keri Garel, and nothing else in my bio is true anymore ... bio that are immutable; my birthplace will never not be Jamaica, and my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  in my room in Simmons, and it's about 22 degrees outside. Ultimately ... April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th birthday and doesn't have a party? I know I'm gonna party when I hit 375 (or ... balloon rides were offered across the city on Saturday afternoon. And boy

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  's confident that the proteins would be ripped apart and rendered harmless by such extreme temperatures and pressures. Mad cow disease is thought to ... back to animals. Appel assumed that the United States, like most modern

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006