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• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  January 1 deadline, if you can. It will save you and us some angst in the ... this, check out the Financial Aid website and also Daniel's blog. I hope ... your interview is fast approaching! You can find the contact information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  applying to MIT this year. In this vein, I thought I'd post some of my old ... rediscovered all of them in my closet. So, here goes. I wrote this first one in ... " average. I will move to Washington, D.C., probably in my early twenties

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  couple courses in the department, I determined that this was not the career ... (Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Management Science). I found that I really enjoyed the classes I had in course 15 but the course 2

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  run across the street to turn in homework, but I do appreciate how new ... , so I can't say too much about the course, but so far I've enjoyed the ... . Unfortunately, over IAP, I lost any progress I made in December, so I currently

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  math and learn math and write websites and learn stuff, i can't do it. i ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... 't change the fact that there is only so much effort i can pour into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  our website. What questions do you have that we can help with? Best ... Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. The MIT Transfer ... be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  doing. In November, I pitched my entire "buy-genes-off-the-internet, make ... .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine ... which point I started work in the Traverso/Langer Lab. Because Binbin is a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  research at the NIH. So, I dug around the NIH website (http ... to be placed in a laboratory. I thought it was just because of my lack ... , and desire to learn. Once you are in MIT, you can use the Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  I don't know if you've heard of this website, but there's a new ... chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it ... : Lemur You: wtf, bye *disconnect* You: I like turtles *disconnect* You: I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  MIT 2014. You can also read about some interesting past HackMIT projects in ... undergraduate hackathons in the nation, is opening up its internet doors for registration between July 1st and July 30th. From HackMIT's website: "Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  card and can get in. For that reason, I usually don't own these, but I ... tea in the next photo...) Nutella: what more can I say? I love bread ... -affordable grocery store in Central Square! They're relatively small so I buy most of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  MIT and he graduated last year with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. I ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  colors." Gwyneth Paltrow, I'm looking in your direction. Well, I don ... , Belgium. Because I was in Brussels, Belgium this weekend. if you happen to ... "travel like a lord" in first class. Wait, actually, I do have some big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  i should buy a plastic wastebin to wash my bulky wool sweaters in. (i ... unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter ... , since my parents are overseas and i'm in boston, so most of these old

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... : Finally at Merck! I can't actually talk about my specific project, but just as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  application components to us in advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can ... 10) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the ... MIT website. [If your interview has been waived, don't worry about it, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I ... before understands what I'm talking about. I don't have much time now, but in the tradition of my last several blog entries, consider this entry

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  ...” or “but their real motivation was...” I realize that the attitude, in ... capital ‘F’, is very different in places like Ethiopia. Instead, I am seeing ... throughout the afternoon and evening (“are people still there?” “I left in 2005

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  probably can't do ten. I personally do one activity plus a UROP, partially because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... any cheer expereince in high school, but I was wondering if it is a pre

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  (and can still find) in these pages. Now that I have seen so many more ... you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025