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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... Programs, which you could listen to here). The final project in the class

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... experiences. In short, Melissa, you don't have to worry about coming to MIT and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Has Been Found! Mystery Hunt 2007 is quasi-over.

  

  and I'll get back to you when I get home from church. Ciao! ... "At 2:14am on Sunday January 14th Dr. Awkward managed to defeat the devil and regain their immortal soul (in coin form)." This means Mystery

  • by Bryan
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things ... applicants right now who will absolutely get in RA. So to answer your question ... want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  smart enough to be here. And while I do see validity in these questions ... find yourself in (not just "am I smart enough to be in it"). Allow me to ... you did in high school. Yes, MIT is harder than high school, but getting

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  getting rather long. My research experience will have to be represented in ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me ... that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  Morgan Sheng's lab in the Picower Center. I didn't get to see much of the ... 'll cross my fingers for that. In either case, I'm planning to take my ... carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... involved in research early. Some students wait until their senior year to get ... lab equipment). Importantly, you want to get really involved in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ensures that I'll be able to get to everything I want to cover, and it oddly ... friends, etc. Gives me things to look forward to, in between studying and a ... classes in a separate binder. Makes it easy to compartmentalize different

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my studies and to continue sitting in places. The two goals are related

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  in the book. Psychiatrist David Jones of MIT advises parents to read ... the release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series ... fandom in general and Harry Potter in particular have shaped contemporary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  to answer the many questions that have been showing up in my blog ... could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to ... August 2007 will MIT make a conditional offer i.e. I will need to get three

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... live and where you’ll be in a year, so try to give this fall a bit of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year ... to rizz' presentations run with multiple co-hosts and presented in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  lying, then, to call these lies? Five. In What getting an education from ... you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... , chose to do difficult homework, chose to not go to parties. In these ways

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically ... worried! We are here to help you get your information to us. Thanks for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... the opportunity to ask any questions about the club or MIT life in ... -specific events! A lot of clubs will hold CPW events for you to get to know the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The ... from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try ... 't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005