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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of ... Preview Weekend (CPW)! Over a thousand students will be on campus and there ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What student disabilities services are available?

  with disabilities receive equal access to all of the Institute's programs, activities, and services. We encourage you to contact Disability and Access
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  's Degree, and become a teacher. I'll go to Penn State. I hope to have an "A ... . Also, I've gotten comments from high school juniors and sophomores, so I ... that any of them had ever been read, and kind of arbitrarily gave them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  working very, very hard campus tourism and imposter syndrome

  

  both within and just outside of a painting. Staring ahead, a low ... entirety of main campus, provides a stately, serene backdrop. Just ahead ... with them the blur between subject and observer. Cross-legged on a statue

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 22, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  speaks to my curiosity about the fundamental working of the universe, and I ... engineering school and i think my cs degree would have the word engineering in ... everything is so cool. SO COOL. And interesting, and exciting, and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... and out-of-state schools to give myself the option to leave home if I ... against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  someone walking and drinking a coffee in a rush, like we do in the states. I ... One year ago, Gosha and I embarked on a whirlwind IAP trip across ... part came out awhile ago, and this second part got very delayed due to a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  schools like Bx Science and Madison. Since none of them prepared speeches, it came off a lot better and a lot more truthful. Although a lot of it ... Resonance and the Logs, heh. I <3 acappella, especially at MIT. Score one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  footage and audio files to your working area. I use a solid state drive and ... This past semester, I took 4.354, Intro to Video and Related Media ... hours"]varying lengths,[/annotation] and of wildly different styles. Some

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good thing I’m all bundled up though, with a beanie and down jacket. 9 ... practice, a friend from Technique, the yearbook, photography, and design club

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... inexperienced and mostly did experimental work, it looks like I'm going to start ... - there are special talks and dinners with featured speakers and various

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  with a group of 15 friends took just a handful of coordinating texts, and ... world, and getting everyone in one place will involve significantly more ... grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in ... forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I ... decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you want, and balance money, passion, and family however you want. Next year

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  talking about my UROP (and for those who don't yet speak MIT, my lab job). A ... , you have a DNA that encodes a protein you're psyched about, and you put ... the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  now, and I don't have the time or headspace to write them. But, like I ... practical and theoretical devices. Perhaps you did not know that lists are ... repleteness of units and their interobjectivity. From the perspective of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I ... five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long ... , and a bunch of photos during this coming week. Stay tuned!

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  around 6:30 PM, around 65 degrees Fahrenheit, and above me I could feel the ... profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... of college life, self-deprecation, making fun of Harvard, and (best of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  Questions about class plans Nehalita asked about class plans, and I ... take outside the General Institute Requirements. (If you're only doing ... four classes per term for eight terms and it will almost certainly come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006