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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  A couple days ago, I received an email from a blog reader who asked ... fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... , take my academics seriously. There are also a number of I'll say

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  different from Ohio. That's actually a whole entry in and of itself... I ... difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology ... Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  working very, very hard campus tourism and imposter syndrome

  

  -grad preparation drift, unchecked, from one week to the next. Yet, as long as I'm a ... both within and just outside of a painting. Staring ahead, a low-hanging branch frames my vision in a gentle arc of bright green. The Dome, the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 22, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do ... science olympiad, etc., even though the applicant is from a region where ... . ------------------------------------- Reg wrote: "From what i remember, you need a science/math teacher

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  . I am not a good person: I wanted to add a song from our Blend to ... the emptiness that he felt afterwards. How his stomach would go from ... bed, gave me some tomato juice and a kiss on either cheek.  But what I

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  weirdness, and recognizing that it comes from a long history that makes the US ... 't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo ... would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  also knew a lot of people from college who took the path you described ... with the privilege of a) having gotten a math/cs degree from mit b) being ... world a better place; the solution has to come from people having real

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  post i’ll briefly summarize a few of my favorite readings from the class ... last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  - Hot plate. This thing is amazing - it goes from like 25 C to 200 C in a ... "practiced" by pipeting water from a beaker to another beaker for a good half ... come from, anyway?). There's also a bottle of CHOLESTEROL IN SOLUTION on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the classes I didn’t take you seem pretty unsure for a girl so in love with her major

  

  We are a week away from the point of no return: the Institute ... invention of new molecules from thin air. I also like to think of Hydrant as a ... assembled from smaller components, or reduced down into its final form from a

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  away from the obsessive straight A’s. But that doesn’t mean MIT still isn ... improvement from a very low baseline, but it’s still a step up that I didn ... function of whether socializing takes energy from you or gives energy to you"]a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard look at many issues concerning the US and the world today and observe a ... January I wrote a post, “Colors”, detailing the MIT community’s response to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  off the match. I'm screaming and applauding from a bench in the middle ... 's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High School. It was a huge part of my life. I initially joined FIRST because my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  what is best for you. Recovering from all of this is a process, but ... *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... .10 might have been a C, but I'll never know - I took it on Junior-Senior P ... , which made for a frequent point of contention between me and my once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  admission to MIT. This is an unprecedented increase of approximately 62% from last year's early action period, when we received 9,291. As I wrote a few ... -minted members of the Class of 2025. These students hail from more than 500 high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  , from Bruno Mars to Jennifer Lawrence to Lebron James to Ronda Rousey. 600 winners a year may seem like a lot, but according to Forbes there are 15,000 nominations per year to choose from. That's a 4% acceptance rate, less than MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November 2. a resilient device, typically a helical ... upward or forward 2. originate or arise from noun 1. the season

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  from the application; a separate sheet of paper is most common. In general, third recommendations from a teachers do not provide much ... music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  noticed that the title of my last entry was from a song played in The ... First, some updates: A few people have asked about information on ... students who did their undergraduate work at MIT (and has a different

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006