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• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  okay, but a short, handwritten note is nicer.) I hope that is helpful! I ... EC to find a time and place that works for your interview. In a ... to ask. Remember that the interview is not only a way for us to get to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  that state for 30s in totality, when then I’d snap back to take a photo ... glance at the Sun without my glasses a few times (please NEVER do that, I ... .  […] Finally, with the Eclipse, I had a sensation that I very rarely had in my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... food people have brought to me. Life with a small baby is rich in ... that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  thoroughness and rigor--but it is a window onto a truth that many of us like to forget, which is that even in a diverse community of geniuses, scientists ... proven competence, the average woman at MIT is less confident in her

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  or call us again after Monday morning, November 26 (I will do my best ... MIT tracking shows a missing component, please fax it to 617-687-9184. Note that ... until a few days after the holiday. Please do not send multiple copies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  (featured in the video). 16.810 is offered each IAP, and I certainly plan on ... robots (and that I'm in now- more on that later). As part of our final ... . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  that time is not linear; that in past or future, or I guess parallel life ... likely of which is that the admissions office here has a somewhat unhealthy ... goes still deeper than that. I always tell people that MIT is the closest

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  I've never been so excited for a semester. I'm taking classes that ... got free art materials from MIT over IAP, which I'll talk about in a ... literally all the time. I'm also going through a break-up...and it sucks. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is a NASA/MIT-led satellite that monitors ... coming from the star to the Earth to dip, which is a possible sign that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I've suddenly become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , because I forgot the mat in Connecticut a screwdriver with many many ... embroidery floss! in all sorts of [annotation note="I have a weakness for color ... , Holden is sprawled out over a couch in the lounge, and Yohance is lightly

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  ’t tell my colleagues in other departments I said that) department at MIT, and a department that is top ranked in Computer Science, in Computer ... ambition. I also hope that this gives you a sense of how MIT is wrestling

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  does lead to a lot of clay that doesn’t make it in. So if I started with ... seeing the familiar sights and realizing, after a few times, that I no ... : I didn’t go in completely new–I’d attended a wheelthrowing workshop

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  . Luckily, college orientations are funny in that they're a lot like kindergarten, in that "everyone is a potential friend and everything is a friend ... get a text that there's pad thai in the 52, and one of our DJ's is

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  your interview. I say that NOT because I have provided them with a test that I want each of them to give when they do an interview. I just don't do that! The interview isn't anything like a test. But each EC can be

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at ... -sensing contact lens that has a little patch of color that changes in response to ... In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  research very much. Here is a blog about that whole thought process. I was ... because I have fond memories and learned a lot from them. Some classes that ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  sharing our work in such a way that other people can easily understand and ... tens of hundreds of cat pictures to learn that a cat is not a dog.  A ... all the cool things that we do so much more easily than computers. In

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... issues, and all I can say is that we figured out how to be friends. Fancy ... chairs and a lamp, all we really want to do is fall into bed and sleep and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  Hockfield argues that funding energy research is a smart investment, I think ... research. In her speech, President Hockfield cited a report that showed that ... a few weeks. To those who will not come to MIT to study, I hope that

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009