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• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... professors is in students themselves. So don't be scared of them! They like to ... common for people to go the other way on the Red Line and end up in Harvard

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  everywhere. Many of these are "early returns"—desperate to get on campus ... freshmen get to explore the dorms, meet the upperclassmen and decide where they best fit in. This freedom to choose where you live was actually one

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... stores glucose in cells). Since adiponectin is used to metabolize, or break down, fats and sugar, you would expect it to be in high levels in obese

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  't join twenty extra-curriculars because you think you have to in order to ... classes, I tried really hard to keep this in mind. But the pressure to take ... devote an entire entry to a class I'm not even in anymore: Physics

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  -vaccines and terrified to interact with anyone outside my household, in a lot of ... through air, to breathe clearly, to be awake instead of trapped in a dream ... library windows.[/caption] Next, I showed up to the first meetings of my in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  us in addition to the many activities they're planning for Campus ... to be in Boston that weekend, and want to stop by, we'd love to host ... Vanilla Sauce We'd love to meet you and your family in February if you

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... that I think I want to work in—transportation planning. It is nice to ... away, I really want to make sure I get an internship with a company I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... (History and Computer Science).  For this major, I have to take 7 classes in ... be invited to an in-person audition.  At the audition, you take a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  , getting stuck in the elevator due to aforementioned obesity, plummeting to ... Graduate - spend a summer in Boston. I don't think you'll ever really get to ... : Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  have done at MIT in an attempt to illustrate that, despite common belief ... ] figured out that our career goal is to work in the Animation Industry, we ... you to a career in animation -- is something we would have really wanted

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  roommates at MIT. In addition to helping with the Infinity camp in June, which ... exposing students in rural Northeast Texas to technical fields and ... /Globe Staff) He arrived in Boston barely able to speak or write in English, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the ... desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am ... English as their first language and grew up in different cultures try to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get ... snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet ... conundrum. Except one of his ideas to get rid of the snow was flamethrowers

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over ... to get down the basic facts - oversharing first base, if you will. You ... structure of America's higher education systems Great! Glad to get that over

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  class, it is a media studies class, we do listen to music in and out of ... ). These were, in my opinion, really great articles to open with since I ... products come from, how products get from A to Z, and really the muddiness of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  the rounds so I hopped in and joined them. It's always nice to hang out ... chillin' in my mouth. I got back to my room and decided to spend some time ... a way to post all of the videos in such a way that not only do they

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  variety of programs in place to help startup founders get the funding ... , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... accepted. To my surprise, I got in, and I signed myself up! Best decision so

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  ="'Boston' refers to both Boston and Cambridge in this post"]boston.[/annotation] it ... , i slowly made an active effort to make the place i lived in, mine ... did in the fall.  i went back to read a journal entry i wrote back in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  , being so deeply engrossed in a topic. And I get to take this depth with me ... of me; once in place, I could follow them where I wanted to go. So there I was one afternoon at MIT, talking to Dumbledore in his office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together ... do the math before recording in big rooms since the ability to ... problem sets, and while 6.864 was fun, I didn't get to actually implement

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012