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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit ... require you to travel to the school itself. MD-only programs have one day of ... of recommendation and proceed to your personal statement, where you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  effectively. In the 19th century, a group of secondary school educators ... . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... own adventure, and there are an infinity of options to choose from ... to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  will have to take for the degree. 4.111 basically introduces design and ... projects responding to tasks somewhere along the lines of “design a space for ... track in American schools. I had learned some basic biology in 6th grade

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  weeks at the end of the school year to see my family, and then I went down ... offer with a pretty number. Of who I would become if I accepted. People ... I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  going to schools named after sketchy billionaires i.e. basically all of ... handed me a degree progress sheet that showed I was four electives short of ... school admission process is almost done, and I'm on track to graduate and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  program, jointly offered by the Departments of Civil and Environmental ... — jointly offered between Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Earth ... most pressing global challenge of our time. Solutions for mitigating and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  resources your school might offer. and of course if you have a better design ... 's easy to think of successful product design as something that beautifully ... . it's a very different way to think of product design or just design in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of ... , the depth and breadth of ECs varies from school to school in the same ... .i got confused after high school as i have got wide range of interests and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... --just one of the many things they'll let you do with an MIT degree. Here's me ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  field of view. A first grade amazement turned into a middle school ... of major in the comments. If you offer to bring me cookies at CPW, I ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to ... to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up ... , more than I probably realize. So, while I may not think of my self as a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  /nano technology. -2.372J Design and Fabrication of MEMS: Introduction to microsystem ... , GFP, self-assembling peptides. Molecular design of new biological ... powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  accomplishments and those of my friends, we couldn't help but feel some degree of ... I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  the design process with introductions, a lot of questioning, and very ... shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has ... schools." It's interesting that the question is framed in terms of private ... have one of the lowest percentages of private school students in our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  . Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons ... of small test fires. The team then performs system design using a ... flight propellant grains. We static fire test all of our motor designs

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect ... , himself, part of the very simulation he thought he'd been hired to design ... ’s early precursor to films like The Matrix and Tron, World of Wires offers

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  *written by Rukia H. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support ... knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018