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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question ... hands-on than most other universities - you work in labs, build roller ... universities, campus is more or less open. If you're interested in MIT, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  friends at other universities have to stay in the college they applied to ... hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the autumnal equinox, but an actual BAM! Leaf in face. It was new, and weird, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to ... unicode block. the most common hindi word in the mediacloud india collection ... hope to bridge gaps, not in knowledge or reason or respect, but in two

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  diversity is to 'relax the standards'. I can't speak for other Colleges/Universities ... bask in the glow of getting the MIT fat packet. Once that moment is over, get back in the game because you have a big decision to make in the next

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  scholarship to Syracuse University, until the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered a similar deal. So in less than a month Logan ... Scholarship. And he comes from a place where college just isn't in the cards for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Christy ‘13 The first in a series of articles about students coming to MIT in the fall.

  

  state in the class), are very underrepresented. For a full look at the ... letting her know she had been accepted to the university renowned for its ... , Christy set her sights on MIT after reading a story in Scientific American

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

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  issues in perspective. While universities are seeing larger numbers of ... , administrators and parents are all in this together. Victor Schwartz is university ... ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an ... deeper into the possible opportunities a program like MISTI could offer. Being a hopeful Course 10Eng-Biomedical and without fluency in any other

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  another blow to my confidence. I went and hid in a corner of the university ... offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store ... , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  , majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006 ... went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and ... in developmental neurobiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. I’ve been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the ... admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  journalism at Fordham University in New York City. It was an interesting panel ... , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone ... (1995), Dance for Two (1996), or Reunion (2003). In 2002, he cofounded the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science ... looks like in the sciences, but in reality most people are sort of ... majoring in biology." (That's actually a verbatim quote. Imagine it in a cool

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  matter is, as much as I love being in the Bubble Universe (where else can ... finish, but don't get too embedded in your bubble universe [of college apps ... brilliant and inspiring people and the sweetest research, but you’re also in a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  in all areas (even Italian, which is only offered during IAP), allowing ... , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... continued schooling at a high school or university other than MIT). Come up ... in recent years deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... that, in which (according to Alan) the universe expanded at a mind ... 14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  . Since we offered constructive criticism in a round-table format, every ... write. That is, there are many people who are interested in writing. A lot of people periodically have brilliant ideas which they then go over in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  you visit a different university. It’s like you’ve been living lives in ... about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019