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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... written, because it demonstrates in fact what, in our decisions day posts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  more in my first year here. With the quote displayed on the giant screen ... been said. There was much to reflect on—in one hour, Professor Flowers ... critical thinking, gain wisdom about the world and our place in it. However

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  Pre-trip background: IAP (Independent Activities Period) in Pavia ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  plans for the future, and also will be hitting the 50% point in my book ... months immersing myself in as many books as I can cram in the windows of ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of ... the fridge felt like I was a guest in my own home. Even more than that, I feel like a different person than I was in high school, which is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  just give me the facts in lecture and challenges in the homework, but an environment that would let me follow my own intellectual curiosity in intriguing ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  Graduate Program in Science Writing; another was Caroline Mak '18, who had ... community to participate in what was happening. So did many other people, and ... registration initiative that allows anyone to register to vote in Massachusetts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  I'm back in Boston and absurdly jetlagged. I promised, though, that I ... . [ASK] me about traveling for 2.5 weeks in two carry-on bags. May 13 ... proceeded to scream into an iPhone in a bathroom in the Mission so loudly that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  alums in the 30 Under 30 for the past three years. (Slice of MIT is a cool ... Under 30 Lists in 2016 More than Two Dozen from MIT Named to Forbes 30 ... years, there have been 89 30 Under 30 MIT alumni. I was interested in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... 'm tired. The last time I blogged about classes, I was enrolled in six; I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  When I was fifteen, in the summer between tenth and eleventh grades ... me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... eight of us were hanging out in one person's room after class, someone put

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  who were admitted or denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of ... of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week ... last semester’s trials and tribulations in 7.05 Biochemistry (bottom left) and 20.310 Biomechanics (the other three pages). For each exam in 20

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  are all teachers – whether it’s working and learning together in the ... tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of ... me you now have 8 more tabs to MIT Admissions blog posts open in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public ... conference started in Seattle that now has a Boston branch. I went last year ... being totally in control of that process. All great games come from a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for ... about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where ... to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... Washington, and I'm from the valley in Oregon, so we feel the same way on days

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012