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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  . Wednesday - school visits on Staten Island and then in East Brunswick, then Chili's (love Chili's!) and then later, the meeting for Central Jersey ... finally On friday I drove back to Massachusetts and slept until Sunday. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  my decision, I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking. There’s much ... reread it and felt bouts of cringe, but it’s fine. They say cringing at ... of my gap working to remotely build up funds and gain work experience

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  arts college, a large flagship state university, a couple of community ... Had my parked car crashed into Moved from Hawaii (and had movers break ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  't be lame and fake at said interview. 3. Get good scores on the SAT I and ... and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the ... and a 1/3 chance of no deaths. In this formulation most people prefer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  also my one and only visit to the state. Get to know your professors ... and realized I have a lot of half-finished blogs, which is a bit tragic ... the course and building numbers ✅ This one I was able to accomplish

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  entrepreneurship program. We saw the Empire State Building and visited interesting ... Sights Las Vegas: At CES 2017, my friends and I networked with startup founders, rode an UberCHOPPER for free, and got into the Tech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  that was the United States. As a chronically online Gen Z-er, I’d already ... fateful night during a Phineas and Ferb marathon. What exactly is cream soda ... make theirs from melon soda and a scoop of vanilla ice cream. [gallery

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -Euclidean spaces, thermal radiation and early history of the universe, big bang ... media, core media institutions, and media in transition. 21L.011- The ... -accessible treehouse, crawled onto the cold-tiled roof, and stared at the thick haze of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  class at The Ohio State University and I am one of three females in a ... festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been ... . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  Beaches and Bioreactors summer is gone and I'm trying to move on

  

  first-year orientation, when all of the frats and sororities host ... [/annotation], and the end of my UROP, the start of classes felt like an afterthought ... Working on my class's Brass Rat design ...and, arguably most importantly

  • by Nicholas R. '29
  • September 25, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  ’d gotten from my computer science classes and general institute requirements ... research in Germany, first at his hometown university and then at G ... , and geometry.) The math CI-Ms are small classes, taught almost

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  creative collaborations with leading research institutes and consortia around the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and students in all majors and all class years (including first-year students
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  universal journey. We asked ourselves and each other, what issues and ... a mission to serve and create a better world by providing universal ... individuals who bring the energy and truly give the program life. Institutions

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  to get the CS degree alongside my business one. And so that's why I ... and my budding interest in pursuing computer science despite not having much CS experience and not being very good at it. Now, nearly nine

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting ... , Smith, Wellesley, Wheaton, Mount Holyoke, WPI, and of course MIT. After

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  breakfast sandwich and run across campus to the Koch Institute. I stepped ... Hi there. Today was an incredibly long day. Like running back and ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  Science Institute, so I'm pretty excited to declog my arteries and eat a ... through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... and tell them I'm just a normal kid who chugged two waterbottles before

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn ... (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the ... ago, the painted red and white stripes on the trees beside my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  "]Chipotle[/annotation] than I expected, but that's fine. I've got a few quick and relatively nutritious meals up my sleeve. If all else fails and the hosage monster gets me ... shipping and delivery takes a while"]YamiBuy.[/annotation] I watch a lot of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  Cami '23 and Shayna '23 —  spent the last few years working on a UROP ... 's really good and you should go read it. If you want to learn more about what went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023