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• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  sooner. David D. '17 You're coming to MIT, one of the best universities in ... Orientation has begun. Convocation starts in less than an hour, where ... your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  . Going to university puts you in a dorm with dozens of people with ... A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me ... doesn’t offer me a bite. 99.999% of the time I don’t actually want the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  -educated people that I met had attended public universities in  Ohio. When I ... one visit in rural Ohio (one stop on a trip through Northern Appalachia ... teachers and counselors before the students and families roll in). I speak

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Southern ... sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place ... brownmityale.org. In addition, we will also host breakfast meetings for your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in ... summer programs in math & science. Science & Research programs Clark ... Program (HSSSRP)Michigan State University High School Honors Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  phenomenon — the ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI. In this new world, we are building on MIT’s established leadership in these fields to ... , research and innovation, and to prepare our students to lead in every domain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  your diploma -- it's what's in your brain. ;) EDIT, 9/4: MITalum ... know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  ...???" If you enroll in another university, you'd have to apply as a transfer ... admissions officer glances at in an application? Do you guys (officers) have ... information in the Part 1 -- name, town, school, etc. There are no numbers that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  it's kinda like james bond in the scp universe. i've spent the last few ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  of being in the intellectual and geographical center of where the newest advancements in science and technology are made.   Which ... Life, the Universe, and Everything"   To me, 42 is the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of that, in a small white wooden building that once served the base as a ... library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  It's interesting that I've never been even remotely involved in anything political, and in all such situations would always be the outsider looking in. However, in late February a protest was held at the massive tent

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  developments in particle theory, baryogenesis, the inflationary universe model ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry, preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  increasing exponentially in MA every day (not hyperbole: the numbers literally ... events helped prevent its spread. In a situation like this, even the "best ... competitions that are typically held in spring; ring delivery; [annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in Kendall Square in Cambridge-- a global innovation hotspot (and in MIT ... .96 (Management in Engineering). Our class was split between graduate and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  the rink, in and out of the classroom, offer a social component to an ... freshmen year at Boston University, also competed, in addition to another MIT ... , that pursuing skating and MIT meant I would be subpar in both, not able

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly ... . Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it ... in another country? And what if you’ve got other plans for the summer—like an internship, or research, or going home to see family? In that case

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  research at another university or intern in industry? Your PI has connections ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just look at the message and don't respond. In Spanish as in English, you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019