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• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... an enormous stein with the United States seal of a bald eagle on it and ... have sprung with a vengeance, and yesterday, what I thought was flurries

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to its graduates. But unlike many universities, MIT's alumni magazine is a ... classmates are, and thought I might share some of it with you. This month, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  university campuses, female scientists are asking why, and wondering what they ... held at Columbia University and the City University of New York graduate ... Monday and Neuroscience today, and my last exam is for Thermodynamics of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  : Lubbock, TX High school: Lubbock High School College: Tulane University, Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  . Friday • Head up near Iowa State University in Ames and hear about life in ... , and now that I have emerged from my first season of reading MIT ... potential future classmates, as well as MIT students and alumni. Here are a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of ... . And Boston is an exciting, historic city that offers something ... entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... the Show-Me State, Columbia is a lively college town, except for the ... , college kiddos, and old folks who really like our retirement communities

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  found a few nuggets of wisdom in my last post that will help you and your ... philosophical issues and solutions for surviving the college decision process. In this piece I want to address specifics - in particular, down and dirty

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  called the Transparent Horizons, and it is almost universally disliked by ... It's finally spring in Boston! And unlike the occasional t-shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  So HST -- the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology -- held its 2006 Forum last Thursday, and my friend Veena '06 invited me to ... '76 and Martha L. Gray, Ph.D., HST'86, the directors of HST. Read their

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  difference. Anyway, I offer you a tale of suspense and... you know, other ... of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to general incompetence, my driver’s license states otherwise. According to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  writing master’s degree in England and is now enrolled in an MD-PhD program ... at their own universities—student populations filled with clout ... them and befriend people who express intellectual curiosity and genuine

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  keep my room at a feisty 80 degrees this winter and start a refuge ... resume, arranged an interview with the MATCH director, and was offered a ... , and walk past a large chunk of Boston University. On the plus side

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  universe, and yet is filled with bleak existential thoughts. if you've seen ... offered me a return offer and i accepted it. i asked to work in the new york ... everything. ben&ben has a song called branches, and when i listen to it i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -Euclidean spaces, thermal radiation and early history of the universe, big bang ... media, core media institutions, and media in transition. 21L.011- The ... -accessible treehouse, crawled onto the cold-tiled roof, and stared at the thick haze of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  be wondering: who is this girl and why is she talking about astronomy ... Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.) Some news from me: I have a new blog now. Here it is. and now, here are three thoughts

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... can go ahead and read your application. Get it? Got it? Good ... nuclear engineering and wrote about a high school project that she was

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  work and get ahead for the next week. Umm... right... it never really works out that way. Instead, you have one more day to procrastinate and have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  only caught up in finishing psets, completing exams, and getting a degree ... :58 AM* "AH CRAPPPP. NOT AGAIN!" *throws TI-89 calculator into pocket and ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  years ago, I chose between undergraduate programs at Ohio State and at MIT ... going to state school would mean an automatic 4.0 and admission into a top ... competition between students, and is it destructive competition? Before I give a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006