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• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  by offering nice dinners, and I was actually looking forward to eating ... Boston University Theatre. The weather is still nice, and nope, I’m still ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer fee waivers for transfer applicants?

  Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  entry, Kevin '11, Joe '12, and I had an on-camera discussion about how GEL ... undergrads out there, I hope these experiences show you how the Institute offers opportunities for students to live out MIT's motto of "Mens et Manus

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without ... internship at a large defense company and was ready to learn anything and ... permeated the culture. Student collaboration and hard, motivating problems

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  research UROP at the Koch Institute and taking 2.00B (Toy Product Design), I ... sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and ... biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an ... one degree of separation away. Other times it's distant and foreign ... . You need a steep temperature gradient (e.g. dry ice and a 400-degree

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and Masters degree in Chemical and ... Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and ... ;bottom-up” approach. Rather than creating a 3-D gel scaffold and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  overall. Only 16% of US employers offer paid parental leave of any kind, and ... state-supported childcare, and the numbers of women in the workforce are ... at my high school, so I joined my friend and only other female teammate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming non-MIT deadlines Other forthcoming deadlines.

  

  forget everything that's going on, and sometimes you're not even aware of ... , I should make the juniors (and, for some of these programs, other ... ): State Governor's Schools: deadlines & processes vary Awesome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... him as a professor at Princeton University overflowing with awards and ... “Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... required for entrance to universities in your country. We understand that many grades are not available until after decisions are made and ask that
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  song Yakko's Universe from Animaniacs, and Pokémon for nostalgia) After ... the slight urge to huddle under a blanket with a warm cup of tea and ... third essay prompt on a college app. And it'll probably happen more than

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  doing yet, and GOSH DERN IT I'M GONNA DO 'EM, FOOLS! I am proud to ... -time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts ... Junot Diaz and I am going to get him to sign my book and holy moly I am

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  and success of the Institute or things you find out you’re capable of ... Milton, however, stayed in Cameroon, and attended university there at the ... , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course 9) What's next: Entering the Biological and Biomedical ... 9/Course 7/Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Living group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  If you were offered a place on our wait list in March, you should ... complete the form and submit it by April 25, 2014. In the meantime, be sure to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom ... different angles, and my  Single Variable Calculus class is no exception. I ... calculus and seventeenth century history in equal measure all in a span of a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• 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.

  

  : "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 ... Chicago, you see, and I was still wearing my uniform--polo shirt and plaid

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  and purposes I am a junior, a 2020. I will not be graduating until 2020, my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... all come and how long we have been at the institute. Before coming to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  I was fifteen and intensely naïve when I graduated from high school and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... front of my ancient laptop narrowing down my list of unwatched movies and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013