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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  all of the "leadership positions" that I had held in high school. After ... the chance to fly faster than the speed of sound, pull more Gs than any ... chance (which happens to be very good coming out of MIT) to have an awesome

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  type of hair well. This brings me back to high school, when I remember I ... more of a spotlight at this school, since it's hard to find out when ... were choppy, disjointed, or I simply did not like them. Of course, when a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  school truck full of engineering toys. Check them out: So yeah ... . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  interdisciplinary area of BioPhysics and why you should not to enter grad school in an ... physics undergraduates, advice for grad schools, and, of course, addressed ... myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Regular Action, 21,706 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2022. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1 ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2022 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Regular Action, 20,247 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2021. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1 ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2021 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  way of allowing myself rest within this school year. [caption id ... the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it ... unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  together. True design is the very core of a product, which manifests itself ... philosophy, which is why I've always dreamed of joining their Product Design ... points. If you lose control of your attitude, two things happen: (1) you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  . RELAX. This is your last year of high school. Enjoy it! Definitely don ... Dear High School Senior Stalking College Admissions Blogs: The purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it ... ), and statistical learning theory (9.520). outside of coursework, i ... other and/or 2) we graduate. lots of puzzle hunts and concerts lined up

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... his grad school days at MIT. Random fact: Andrew Fire began his PhD in ... familiar, it's probably because you've seen the work of his distant relative

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  class of 2016) released a report on the status of undergraduate women at ... designed and administered in 2014. The takeaway: young women at MIT are every ... work outside of academics. The report also shows differences among the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... impression that they were tunnels in the most adventurous sense of the word: cavernous cement cylinders wreathed in shadows and coated in a moldy film of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  spending money on top of the money they were already paying for school. So ... lot of money to apply to graduate school (GRE general test, GRE subject ... note, with some degree of amusement, that in the case of the example I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  Well, grad school interviews and visiting weekends are done! This weekend I visited Harvard Medical School's Biological and Biomedical ... of questions MIT alums ask each other when they meet: what course were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  and relevant. Perhaps similar courses are offered at other schools; I ... sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  of “Ostalgia,” building designed by SANAA Thomas Schutte ... work of Félix González-Torres stands at the intersection of these two schools. See: Untitled (Passport) Untitled (Passport), 1991

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  we already have. Also note that while some of your schools submitted ... finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early ... next week. That means that most of you who have a missing document will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The ... year out of MIT: Another $10. Second year:$10 + $10 = $20. Third year

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  “The Poetics of Place” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a last ... School of the Museum of Fine Arts) appealed to me when I applied here, and ... I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016