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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  17.S914 Conversations in You Can’t Have on Campus. It’s 2 hours of ... to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... example, in the case of the required Course 16 Unified Engineering series

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... 's gotten into me :( Second: this weekend is going to be EXCITING! I know of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... . I graduated in June 2014. Now I do astronomy research at the Max ... from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  name. And I found the fridge: it is in fact disguised as a set of drawers ... On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When I ... impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can ... offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... 't make sense to major in, say, Literature, at MIT (which I sort of agree

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I especially love all the year in review lists. Because this was my first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 highlights of my year in review. And what an awesome year it was! 1. This is a

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  I've said in the past, the large majority of our applicants are highly ... chance of having been polished by expensive college counselors? I ... /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  interdisciplinary field with a lot of different applications. I can give you my ... collaborate with each other. External meetings. In most of my jobs I have had ... themselves — and that’s also why I believe we need all kinds of people in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  's next? I've achieved my highest of highs, and lowest of lows, in this ... the most of it while I still can, to take it moment by moment — and dare ... during the last few weeks of the semester, I had prioritized school first

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus ... Latino Cultural Center’s production of In the Heights, a musical written by ... /Latino(x) community in Washington Heights dealing with the effects of gentrification

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of ... outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep ... volunteering (teaching English I think?) They told us about volunteering in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?

  Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer applicant. You're not eligible to apply as a first
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  minimizes geography in formation of rich vs. poor nations By Robert Gavin ... economists in the area of antitrust and monopolies. MIT professors Paul ... On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  I'd write about celebrating an American holiday in Britain. Although to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2.5 months already!" I've been more along the lines of "I can't believe it

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 1 The first winning entry in the photo contest. What a view!

  

  Charles River, Massachusetts Avenue bridge, and city of Boston on the right ... Iran. This photo was taken from Arya's 15th floor room in the dormitory MacGregor House, just before sunset. The left half of the picture is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  Regular Action. In the email, please include your full name, date of birth ... Bridge application, along with the QB supplement, in place of our first ... . Do not begin a first-year application in our application portal until
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  city, my dog, my friends... So I googled for the email addresses of some ... concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  "]10:00 am[/annotation]. In general, I’m getting about the same amount of sleep ... . And in a stroke of great luck, this past year I even got to move in with ... matter. I can now fall asleep in ten minutes with the lights on, people

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  rode a few years back along the shores of a beach in Nigeria. By rode, I ... passed and glanced at one or two of these on my way to class at MIT, I can ... could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013