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• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... . In everything from physics to philosophical issues in brain science

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  group. However, I proceeded to get lost in North Station because the MBTA ... ongoing event in rolling text". Apparently this used to be something that ... . Gloria: I was actually awake since much earlier in the morning, but due to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship ... Facebook group that you get to join when you're a student here that's called ... to get stolen Person 3: Yeah, this is why no one goes around hanging

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

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  from autonomous drones to what I am currently working on in Biomaterials ... you just as much as any lecture will, and I really use this time to get ... actively participating in discussions on how to alter the experiment that

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  motivation among friends to get stuff done (in startup speak: GSD.) Halfway ... skills that would help me learn how to get my projects off the ground in a ... specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my ... what I wanted to do. I felt like it would allow me to doing something in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  , experts in their field. One area that seems to be taking off right now is ... in the MIT 100K competition in 2006. We got to the semi-finals and then ... visit. How has your MIT education influenced/helped you in regard to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  all weekend and getting lost in the tunnels trying to get to a far ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time"]in ... ’m getting one anyway"]I want to be on the rowing team for one more year; I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... to hell" with an arrow pointing to MIT, but I'd have to get on the road ... about birth control. I didn't get to sleep much (I only slept about 10

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to ... to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i ... deeper in old sources of comfort. a return to times that weren

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  feelings that were washing over me in waves. Instead of getting straight to ... I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the ... longer under my control. Week four was when things started to get hairy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  ... I've been working in Morgan's lab ever since. I get paid $10 an hour ... advisor. On a day-to-day basis, I work independently... after working in the ... students to have problems getting into good grad programs, however! 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author ... 's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and ... refreshing to make memories that are anchored in places beyond my bedroom. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  maybe spot-welded together. But in the end Joe '08 and I get to write an ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... guess after four years it might be nice to get a different perspective on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  what to expect when you get to MIT. Floatillas, Liquid Nitrogen, and peak ... while they were in school, and so they tend to continue doing really cool ... , don't discuss odds with MIT kids. I estimated them to be about 1 in 10

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , you push in firmly to force the clay up and down until it reaches a ... positionings, especially when it comes to centering. In the class, we were ... the larger lumps, and I started using both hands to keep the clay in

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

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your classroom to inspire your students, Gisel is probably the person who put it in ... give to each other as a thanks helping them out in a pinch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  happened to play out. I was sitting in my Algebra class, I was really bored ... varied it is, I do find myself drawn to the micro theory side. In ... no costs in using your credit card to buy that Arizona tea, why that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  crumbles a little bit more, but then everything gets kind of settled in the position it's sitting in so you have to turn off the food processor, open it up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024