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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  Line, my heavy suitcase and jet-lagged state convinced me to take the ... into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... ’m here through MISTI, or MIT International Science and Technology

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  , sorted, entered into the database, filed, and reviewed. My advice to you ... materials and test scores for more than 7,000 regular action applicants. That

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  it. More than a decade (and a graduate degree in media studies from MIT ... of SLACs and state colleges in New England...and also to the College of ... audience and his far-flung fans. Maybe that was the case for you. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  Washington University. I was sharing an efficiency double with Rose '05, and we ... , MD, home of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism ... the podium and undergrads on the other, and alternate awarding degrees

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious. The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the ... about same time, June/July 2018, I and the rest of the Class of 2022 were

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  Colorado and neighboring states and runs a day of demonstrations and ... RISE (Roots In Science and Engineering) and is an example of how ... (surely "in" is no more important than "and"?) In a nutshell, Google grants

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways ... .091 (Intro to Solid-State Chemistry), my love for chemistry was reignited and I ... M.Eng that gives you both a bachelor's and master's degree in five

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of ... The results are out, and for the second consecutive year, MIT has won ... ), Daniel Kane (sophomore-junior, Mathematics), and Vladimir Barzov (junior

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  , Delaware and most recently Ithaca, New York. I am a graduate of Norfolk State University (Home of the Spartans!) and the University of Delaware, (Home of The ... recruitment at Cornell University. Fast-forward six years and I'm the new

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  the best youth of this and other countries, the Institute is obligated ... Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many ... voting, and faculty have been instructed to avoid scheduling assignments or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  angles and degrees are easy: one-eighth of a circle, or [latex]45^{\circ ... through The State of the Tau. Some personal highlights include: SMBC and ... ]\tau = 6.283… = 2\pi[/latex]. And I cannot help but tell you about the glory

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  familiar universe previously explainable by reason, science, and Stephen ... and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off ... influx of heart-shaped candies and frilly pink cards and teddy bears

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  the Myers Briggs test is fake science and not a good personality test ... : ambitious and sociable. Even the stated health risks were kind of true, I have ... merit to it? I spent some time doing some thinking and was talking to my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  , philosophical and critical things about the current state of humanity. I would get ... always struggled with fiction writing and long-form storytelling. Writing a ... only writing poetry, but noticing poetry, recognizing symbolism and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  cold marble floor of the state capitol, surrounded by federal agents and ... . And with detailed polling data, state legislatures have disenfranchised ... Thomas Jefferson as the first President-elect of the United States and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  universally accepted now and laughed at 50 years later. There are so many ... universities really be? This time, that extra perspective is not mine, but that ... serious), an MIT junior (majoring in math, of course), and a participant

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  engineering and math. Flores will enter the Massachusetts Institute of ... & Mathematics Institute at CAHSEE and the Minority Introduction to Engineering and ... Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  two years and are unaware of the current state of American politics, the ... Institute--and weighted to favor students". This was greatly exciting news ... like a turtle in three pairs of sweatpants and two sweatshirts and a lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  simply gotten the grades and graduated with degrees. It’s not a ... saturated and shouldn’t I use my college degree to get one of those well ... horizontal or vertical slashes. Feeling rebellious, and wanting to amuse myself

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023