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• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  States, and how it related to the promotion of unity and understanding on ... ... but it's snowing here, and it is beautiful. I'm overlooking this winter wonderland as I'm reading applications today, and it makes me feel calm, very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  Institute. And, quite notably, I was able to outcreep the ever ... a great degree of compassion and commitment, and I greatly look ... into these past few weeks - and that's not even including classes, which

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  ."]Midwest:[/annotation] gentle clouds over a rising sun, and trees as far as the eye can see ... [annotation note="I spent a lot of time in high school on buses and I got very ... was woken up only twice: once at 2 AM, partially by the cold and by the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is study help available?

  MIT offers a variety of academic resources to provide support for any student facing a particularly tough academic challenge, from tutoring and study groups to time management tips and testing strategies. Here's a
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  homes, scattered across different states and countries. I sang “Hallelujah ... -school students interested in pursuing singing in the future, and the choir director ... music and some vocal technique, and then go home, with no real additional

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have populations of 5.3 and 8.2 million people respectively, so Hot Springs seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  and July). Now, for the meat-n-bread of what I’m doing, check out this ... the University of Hawaii - Hilo to develop the marketing plan for this ... brochures? tips and things? website? information fairs? making a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  (Title above and song below inspired by lyrics from Avenue Q's "What ... ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  . One semester of chemistry is a general institute requirement at MIT, and ... orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever ... overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  universe much like ours - but its inhabitants are built from pixels and lines ... college essays, and maybe you’re right, but I really like writing! College ... it and b. It timestamps every single edit you’ve ever made on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how ... MIT's campus complete with video clips and 360-degree panoramas of ... psets, 3 labs, and 2 papers that are all due tomorrow by 5pm. There's just

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and ... on genetic silencing. And yes, in case you were wondering, I thought ... post is that Prof. Reddien allowed me to interview him the other day, and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  shielded as we are by this great institution. This blog is my platform, and I ... Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble, being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  Architecture and Islamic Cultures Statistical Methods in Economics Can you match up the class with the number? (Hint: there are two 14s and two econ ... Weinberg format: 3 one-hour lectures and 2 one-hour recitations fun facts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered 454 applicants ... students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... from the waitlist, and the year before that we admitted 40 students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... reasons. Sometimes it is hard because you don't know your audience and have ... tumble out of you, all stiff and angular like a box of bent pipes. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  he went to Harvard for his undergraduate economics degree and didn ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  , and hopefully someday, a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air ... [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1 ... could really synthesize who i had been and what the Institute had made me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  's degree, and others seem to consider MIT the best (#1) Planning school in ... Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my reading textbook in elementary school and ... and can still multiply and divide just fine in her almost-senile 90 year

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009