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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  longer surprised me. Past professors or TAs of mine have also offered to do ... everything you learned over a year-long high school course in just a couple of ... School, and it promises a deeper exploration of vision and audition to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  a little while. Next week I will begin a leave of absence from MIT. I ... student and researcher. As some of you may remember, before MIT I was a ... the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  wanted to be an interior designer. When I was 15, I decided I actually ... from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with a masters degree, who loves psychology, studies/practices Buddhist

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  are a lot of core requirements that must be completed before a degree ... dozens and dozens of cool classes offered in Course 2, but most students ... . But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  :30-10:00 PM. Saturday -- Giving tours of my dorm, 1:00-5:00 PM. Graduate school ... long time ago. But I was sick of talking about grad school.) I'm heading ... were getting a master's degree by the end of your undergrad studies and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  Academy, a boarding school located just south of Boston. So I’ve ... Robert Langer, an MIT Chemical Engineering professor, is one of the ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat ... , and generally had close to zero human interaction (with the exception of ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  Marching Mapper is an application for designing marching band drills, and it came out just a few months ago. My raging school spirit inspired ... , even though I've never been in a marching band (or any kind of band). The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of ... : "May we offer you a drink of life's water, a water so replenishing and ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  the spring. Two of the three freshman chem classes are only offered ... upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of ... Icosahedron Designer: Unknown Here’s another piece of modular origami I made ... saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  were designing some type of robot and were focusing on one aspect of it ... varying degrees of involvement in extracurricular activities. There was an ... activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  advantage of the free resources that the GECD offers beyond résumés, like mock ... dozens of iterations of the design of my résumé (well, that's also because ... copies of your newly-polished and brilliantly-designed resume well before

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  of the US. In middle school I wanted to be popular. Freshman year of ... . Junior year of high school I secretly wanted to be an engineer. Senior year of high school I came out as a wannabe engineer and applied to MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... “craft bold, memorable designs that capture the unique spirit of the Class ... grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and ... information about them. So, even though you've been away from high school for awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  stronger voice inside myself to tell me what to do. The book offered a way of ... them out of hand. She believed that the authors had something to offer ... . When I turned over the last book of hers I read, the designation in the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... ? That I did. I was actually one of three people in my school to take it ... undergrad and grad school, since a lot of success in science depends on a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  sounds like--a team of students designs, builds, and flies a remote ... engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing ... Preview Weekend, the MIT Design/Build/Fly (DBF) team was in lab, packing up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014