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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  half done, so I'll answer my backlog of questions in several parts. Here ... Students?" This is a question I answered in this post. The answer was: "We ... ; I'm not involved in graduate admissions. Regardless, kate, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship ... heat pumps.  In the three weeks, I have mostly just snuggled and fed and ... -plus years since I last blogged in a format inspired by A Pattern Language. A

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  'll probably be a better version than the original in the near future. i know for sure that i'll be using some of these sites in the next couple days ... bible of all the classes offered at MIT in the fall. personally, i've got

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  gear, it should be no surprise that I'm thrilled to be back just in time ... in situations that are other people's nightmares. I'm particularly ... in this machine trying to keep it cool.) I've named this computer

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  the best decisions I've made in my life. Also - we're getting a new ... triceps won't fail me anymore! YAY! Yes, I'm excited - in case you couldn ... (Reading and Writing Short Stories), as I wrote in a previous entry - was my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  authors, which I think means Allan has made it in academia (read his paper ... she blacked out and (in her words based on eyewitness accounts): “I ... , my future looks like a dark void. Not in the usual “will I pass this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of ... class!) decided to blog about schoolwork, I decided to pitch in my own ... eating. (Note: I actually like studying in cafes during weekday nights

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father-in ... amulets. (Some scientists I know recently put up in their lab a statue of St ... (after reading my directions to Target stores in the Boston area) asked, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  Today, two quick items I've recently seen on the web (more substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog ... . The course, which recently has focused on the war in Iraq, is described

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  place in the 2003 World Solar Challenge in Australia - for a spin on Mount ... , said MIT student Ben Glass, who was traveling ahead in a lead car. ``Obviously it's not built for the road,'' he said.   I don't know if they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  (Jo-Jo) Chang '03. I first met Jo-Jo my senior year at MIT, when I was ... as Freshman Class Vice President. After graduating in 2003 with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Joanne now works as a management

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  , or TOEFL, in addition to the required SAT Subject Tests. Q. I am an ... Test ("SAT 1") or the ACT Plus Writing. In addition, we require two SAT Subject Tests ("SAT 2s"): one in math (Level 1 or Level 2) and one in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  's birthday, and I honestly had not had that much fun in a very long time. 5 ... , reasons for their success as well as their importance in Belgium today. I ... cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is watching TV; however, when I do have time (*cough* IAP *cough*) I manage to ... I'm sure this isn't the best way to spend my time, I somehow can

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  few people would deny that individuals are shaped by their experiences. Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart cannot be grown by simply placing stem cells in a Petri dish. However, Ali

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4, (flexible mechanical engineering with a concentration in design/architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  happens in there. I've found that it's sometimes easy to forget that this ... sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... ," and it takes places in E15-001, aka The Lego Learning Laboratory. E15

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

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  awake. With bagels, a tea bag and some peanut butter in hand I make the ... productivity packed in a few hours, I'm so glad I was running out of body wash. 1 ... of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle ... , just didn't shower? Me too. But seriously, congratulations! In my 9 ... one experiment we ran in class involved everyone writing down their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  audition for a play, something I hadn’t done in over ten years. It worked out well, because I did get two parts in said play, The Vagina Monologues. I ... beginning of the semester, I encountered my former Harvard TA in one of my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016