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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  water but keeps on vomiting it up, fever of over 100 degrees, has no ... with MIT, so be forewarned. =D Since the middle of June, I have been ... our stay, I shadowed doctors, attended healthcare lectures, designed

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  of a school abroad. My question is: Will this letter put me at a ... New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... National Gallery (East Wing designed by MIT alum I.M. Pei) and maybe the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  Bachelor of Science degrees, which means that all degrees are SBs ... This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger ... ,000 steps and probably gallons of water, during which [annotation note="o7. he

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... actually goes to school here. Adventures!— Union Square Donuts Union Square Donuts is one of our favorite places in general: it is my and Cory

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  ROI on most undergraduate degrees. It is incumbent on all of us to do ... process of building out your list of schools to which you will likely apply ... I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  out of Harvard Kennedy School, and also the Harvard Ed School, and also ... , Toy Product Design, where teams of 4-5 design a toy from scratch. I was ... it looked utterly barren. (Thanks, quarantine.) So I thought of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  to grad school or possibly working if I find a cool company who wants to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited ... costume designer as a teacher. I don't know if it's offered regularly, but

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on top of yesterday's already heavy mail . The records office staff are ... MIT Tracking System, though this could take upwards of a week. We make no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  given me my freshman year of high school; everybody had told me that ... eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How ... prioritize public schools (~70% of MIT undergraduates attended public schools ... School, which offers a magnet program in health sciences to all students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  Potato Cannons, who is also an Athlete of the Year A high school inventor ... of different high schools represented: 862 Just For Fun Most ... as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  into the cringefest that is my writing from senior year of high school ... , here I am, headed towards one of the biggest changes life has to offer ... year for me. It marks the year of my transition from high school security

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  semester (when you have a better idea of what classes are offered when ... our own little world and were mostly ignored by the rest of the school ... of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  example (in case one is admitted at all) to have pointed School of Engineering in one's application and decide to go to School of Management ... each program has to offer." This is correct. Approximately 50% of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  of scope offered by our humanities courses, which is sort of the best ... /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... , which is as complete a record as anything else of offbeat communications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  I feel less guilty publishing this during IAP since IAP is designed to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  architect of Simmons Hall. I'll update you on the lecture and also answer some ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006