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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  weeks of emailing, trying to get in contact with people working with water ... trying to get in contact with people on the ground here, so to be offered ... volunteer health workers, they just get sent down to the ICU. After speaking

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  , hopefully two-way, where the EC gets to know you: what drives you, interests ... around the corner. While I hate to distract you from the application, essays, standardized tests and teacher recommendation letters (not to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT ... only on the hard sand because I get tired easily on the soft stuff. If I ... best color in the box. From the ages of 3-10, my life goal was to be

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not ... time to sleep lately, let alone blog, but I just thought I'd give a quick

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  sad. It's hard to explain how incredibly jealous I get of friends who ... such a sheltered life so to speak, and when I gush over the fact that my friends have been to even the UK (of all non-exotic places, at least from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  three or four times this year, and it's a good way to get to know your ... happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most of Tuesday on a bus from Montana to Washington state. - Last night, my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  three minutes (shouldn't you be in class?), we're trying our best to get ... Science Talent Search today: good luck!Still to come, whenever I get time ... beyond the call of duty to process the 40,000+ application pieces as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... , that I've decided to devote an entire entry to it. First things first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone ... tougher students to get through it.  … They made me feel like everything was ... head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  suggest getting another book to help you out, especially The Official SAT ... won't teach you as much about the SATs, it's a good way to get you ... 's really expensive to get other people to motivate you. If money IS a big

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  best to be as resourceful as possible. There is a process of getting our ... them. I'm hoping to get most of the classes and credits to transfer over ... could get humanities to transfer over as HASS-E credit. Regardless, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  kind of meditation could. If you’re looking to get free, it’s there, you ... When it comes to Boston’s music scene, it certainly isn’t lacking ... that whatever they are, I love listening to them. I admire music and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  I'm gaining money rather than losing it. Lastly, I also wanted to get ... This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... starting over. No delays to tomorrow, next week, or next month. No more "I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  get to keep a blog. No joke. Part of the requirements are to write ... plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential ... ." That's SO WEIRD. You don't get to say things like that unless you're an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  get to skip the line of people attempting the test to sign up for a ... ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  , we decided to get the hell out of there. Soon after this, we were told ... tunnels to get from Building 54 to the main academic buildings without going ... getting ready to go outside and play in the snow with Sarah when the 223

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  about overscheduling; they just wanted to know how to get into MIT. Now ... Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... , from rural Saskatchewan to southern Mississippi. Most prominently, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006