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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  freedom to get around. They offer convenience and flexibility to fit the ... more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world ... products and can be ordered! Clocky, the alarm clock that runs away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  feelings and activities that aren't directly Institute-related... these ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  a fifteen-minute bus ride. Or MIT and Boston University, or MIT and ... I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  attended high schools that offered dozens of these courses, and, yes, some of ... to be somewhat controversial: Jones believes that creativity and ... , and we in college admissions officers reinforce that, they don't get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  final, time. After an hour, I reached a stable state and asked around for ... usually amount to advertisements of events and programs and people trying to ... , and host “learning festivals” at local schools along the way. Though I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  best-known biomedical engineers in the world. He holds 500 issued and pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... Prize” for engineers) and author of over 900 papers, Professor

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  and following my instincts, I feel like I haven't even tapped into what the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned ... ).  We invited all of these professors to tea and connected the institute

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  University which was my first film, and then I started on Coco and that’s what ... photos of their loved ones and leave out food and offerings that their ... screening, and it’s the state of the story at that point so it’ll all be in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience. Local Admitted ... Providence, Rhode Island, and as far away as Singapore. There will be meetings ... Francisco, Washington (both the state -- in Seattle -- as well as the District

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  who, like me, has had to drop a child at a large state university in a ... length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the pipes hanging from the ceiling, when my son looked over with a smile and

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, and other countries in the southern ...  high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university in their home country and begin studies while they wait to learn their
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  , but her 2 brothers live out of state and only make it back to Jersey ... The fourth Thursday of November and the few days before and after are ... actually played with your feet), and preparation for the holiday season. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... around an extremely pleasant 65 degrees! My classmates and I took advantage ... guitar, basket of food, and blanket), and I was pretty envious. I chose to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  with my new best friends exploring the Institute in any and every way ... last year, and it is, once again, that time of year! This year I'd like ... questions you have in the comments section below, and I will do my best to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  and is a member of Northeastern University's Class of 2024. Since I left ... my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  know each other, our team leader and I met up over coffee. Or rather, the ... need to decide which classes to take and where that will lead me. That in ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything ... the Library, and pelt out tunes that would make Beethoven roll in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact same taste in music: classic rock, blues, and jazz, and that's pretty ... this unwritten pact (well, I guess it's written now) which states that if

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  , surrounded by some of the best biological and medical institutions in the world ... University professors are often portrayed as self ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  decision on equal terms, the institute and myself, with nothing to lose ... thriving at my state school (Purdue!!) and have found a community of bright ... applicants with those who aspired to join the Class of 2027, and to add to our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023