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• 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 ... students to get through it.  … They made me feel like everything was going to ... head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• 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 / 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 / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

   (or, getting addicted to success) Soon you're not so special, and that's fine ... harder. It's an easy spiral to go down, and one you get tunnel ... you know that you still have to be successful on paper to get everything

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  get them to you in time? A: If you did not select your scores to be directly sent to MIT, and are worried they will not get here in time, we will ... when trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  , enjoying life independent of the work load; and three, getting to know ... !) - published a letter to the editor from Folkers E. Rojas on February 28th that I ... Folkers' paragraph that begins "I started to paint again." Without further

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  abroad program. I figured this could be fun, getting to work somewhere cool ... the more I hung around, the more I wanted to get to know them better ... [/caption] We went out to the pub together a few times to hang out and get drinks

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  die. Each of us gets to choose.” Whether we like it or not, you and I ... chose to do the work. We wake up in the morning and before we even get out ... at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  then actually get to spend a lot of time and resources working on it, and ... Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to

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

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  -love way of saying, "You've only been there a week; you'll get used to it, and it will get better," which was, as it turns out, what I needed to hear. It takes time to get used to the reward system of my workplace

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016