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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  headquarters was located, and started pitching in. For about the next 48 hours, I ... would you do this to me?" "It looks straight...forward." Josiah '09: "I ... mentioned in previous entries, my UROP is in the Langer Lab, where I've been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group ... information session with a primer on our mission, so I think it would be ... inherent value of an educational experience on this campus, I also believe in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  blogger application." While some days I'm in Cambridge at the MIT Welcome Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my ... ’t clear, let me know in the comments or by email, and I'm happy to help!

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  like an annoying process and I would save time by correctly predicting ... advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  process, but a short one. I had to apply online, book an appointment, go in ... obvious, but you’d be surprised. In the past, I know I have certainly done a ... 'll need it. We all do.  I hope you found some nuggets of wisdom in there

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  accepted. To my surprise, I got in, and I signed myself up! Best decision so ... corner of MIT’s campus, people I probably would never have spoken to ... startup culture, and I thought I would share a few aspects that are specific

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  can definitely say that I learned a lot and improved in both reading ... , that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the ... conditions of women at MIT. I have personally witnessed a shortage of women in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  ’s been a big year. Check it out! STARS@MIT: A Year in ReviewWhen I was ... for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what ... question—I never had a college fair in my town, either. The only things I

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  friends from the MSA Nour and Iman! Finally, I would like to thank Paul ... this entry. I think that I am in business now! ... As far as admissions counselors go, I am relatively new to the MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  complain about how her hall's TV only plays in Spanish. I myself found MIT ... that I was certain I would fail, I stepped into the shower to be greeted ... when I wasn't totally jazzed about MIT. I got accepted, and that was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists ... because 30 people are taking a picture of a paper tree in lobby 10 then I ... 't trying to get to class. I now try to be more refined in my photography

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  application I had a pretty solid game plan: Stress band, life in the country ... available (I actually think I got Part I in about four hours after it was ... in my application. I do so many things for fun, which one was the one I

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  up. "I would tell them to have confidence in themselves and to push ... COLLIER COUNTY: A set of twin girls in Collier County have a lot more in ... valedictorians? If you knew anything about the Burfield twins, it would have been a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  architecture that I would like to pursue in my graduate studies. [It] helped ... helped pin-point my area of interest that I wish to pursue in graduate ... believe that no experience available to me in the States would have been

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  a day, Monday through Friday, I'm taking 6.189 - a crash course in ... A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the things I was planning on doing during IAP...and then I got distracted by

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  principle does not account for the organ variant. In particular, it would ... statement of this blogpost. I claim we should not give up quite so easily. In ... intuition, I don’t think we would deem it intuitively clear that the moral

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  supervisions are setup within your college (another system I'll talk about in a ... saving grace. Where as I'll usually be too afraid to ask questions in ... Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... would never go to university (I did) nor return home (I did, at least for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated ... of geeky wit. This, for instance, hung from the ceiling of Lobby 7: I was actually kind of ashamed when I didn't recognize the iconic globe

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  were other activities I liked more, or was interested in, and I quit ... committments. Erer asked: I noticed in the admissions stats that because of the ... in the sciences at the same rate as the boys? Have to ask. While I can

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006