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• 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 / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced tea we both ordered. It was 95 degrees and we were both slowly fusing ... something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• 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 / 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

  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 / 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
• 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

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  school French class, and then dropped out of MIT his junior year to build ... award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can also apply to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  and three degrees of firmness. Though, in his own words, it took him "a ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  are a lot of things you can do with them in terms of design ... learned a very important lesson of interior design, namely, furniture ... really limits the great equalizer of design which I had discovered the year

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  high school musical (apres nous le deuge, of course!). I haven't been ... , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  myself was in my high school production of Les Miserables my senior year. I ... relationship between three floors--Conner 2, Conner 3, and Conner 5. I think of ... 's degree but still lives nearby, so she bakes you fresh cookies every once in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in ... This year, MIT learned that two beloved members of our community would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in August 2018 when she strung together some scraps of potential posts that ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  academia should look like and of who belongs in it. Once, in high school, I ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... essentially let me design my own project based off his work on hydrogels, and so

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  So, I'm from Columbus, Ohio, home of Jungle Jack Hanna and the ... !) and pick the movie -- March of the Penguins. It was awesome, although I think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non-degree ... are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange ... participating institutions for a set duration. For a list of member institutions
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  to other schools that are spewing their judgments at you all of this ... , especially since so many MIT applicants also apply to the slew of top schools ... at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015