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  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... creation in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Technology, Music, Literature ... permanent resident, live in the US, and not have your 18th birthday before

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and Cognition," known around MIT as Course 6-9. In this post, I'll describe my ... 's [annotation note="and nicest, in my opinion"]newest[/annotation] major. How I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  Ideas Weekend was my calling. I sent in two event proposals, and thought ... Ideas IAP started off just how I imagined. In the first week, I practiced ... touched 18.03.   In a desperate moment of clarity, I sat down to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... that out, she piped up, “If you check our website, you can find schedules

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  'Oreal’s website, you’ll see the emphasis on science in the cosmetics industry, and ... Stewart (I just couldn’t resist putting this one in =) ): We attended a ... Bryant Park have in common? Besides all being located in New York City

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  sitting in the admissions website, crying out for me to finish them, but I ... ? How much of a role does money really play in my life? I've been ... Scott and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, I feel a discernible ache in my chest

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  reduce the time a patient spends in surgery. Additionally, it can be ... lab through the UROP website: “I looked under the project openings and ... their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  can be said about a good number of esolangs. I’m sort of working on a ... that can be traversed by a pointer (the current position in the list ... /command set, brainf*** can be used to create even more esolangs. One that I like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... in MIT, lies about MIT in and unsubscribe. I think this is partly ... known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  slight rivalry between Harvard and MIT. Whenever I'm talking to prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry ... deep down they really just want to study alone in their rooms and go on

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the ... probably the reason that I ended up on 5th East, which has changed my life in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  " section of my entry, I can see media uploads here in Wordpress from Chris Su ... not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody* wrote in. I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  still send in supplementary materials and, if so, until what date can I do ... visit. ------------------------------------- Anon wrote, "can i send in ... to you? I can send it in by using fedex." You may email or mail us the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with ... bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of the first-year experience, I stumbled across the following graf quoting ... Education Survey (aka the Lewis Report), which, as you can read on our history

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then ... go to CMIMC, in Carnegie Mellon, and I had a great time. It went quite ... was majoring in something, and I was like, "woah woah woah, don't you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to write about in one paragraph, so check out their site and explore what our
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  Massachusetts. I’m really interested in [annotation note="6: Computer Science"]course 6[/annotation] and am thinking I will probably major in either ... with the MIT Outing Club! In my free time I like to play lots of board

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Cross student going to M.I.T. in the Fall By Jarett Henshaw Published ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The ... him leaving Roanoke in the fall. "I'm very very proud but very sad that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024