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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  personally did not choose RBA because I wanted to get to know a lot of people ... was a really good experience because I got to learn about a topic I was ... 'm actually going to be an associate advisor for 2.A35, Biomimetic Principles

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  'll actually get to be a real, certified EMT. Plus, I got an A on the paper I ... Guess what! I passed my EMT practical exam! Yay! Now all I have to ... I'm really lucky, even through the 18.03 pset I have to do right after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... considers herself really lucky to have had the opportunity to work at such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  don't want to hear all the way through. 9. Daniela, for having a really ... -Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment of over 100 freshman across nine floors, rarely needing to sink below

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have ... , uncensored posts reveal a lot about MIT students, academics, and life at MIT
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded to address fundamental questions about climate processes with a multidisciplinary approach. The Center's goal is to improve the ability to accurately
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we ... After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your application has entered a black hole. So what really happens between when you
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite ... . the foreword by ross gay was enough to dissolve me into tears. i did a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is ... through Colón to see how excited everyone was. Here's a view from behind of ... from a few blocks away, and they didn't seem to be ahead of me. And

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make ... experience of intense struggling knocked him down a few pegs: “I had to find ... off by a final design project that brings them to life. He’s also

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  thought about taking a shower, but it was like I was glued to my bed. Just ... the kitchen to get ingredients for a smoothie. I pulled the fridge door ... hallway playing with a hyper Kiko before I went back to my room. -- At 3 AM

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... was a ~little~ hard to see. Around that time I first heard of neural ... ’s a strange serenity to coding late at night to a mug of hojicha tea and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a ... " -- floors which allow residents to have a cat -- and Third East is one of them ... 's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to ... cases I actually did pass, I would have to subject myself to a virtual ... the helper functions. Functions to make test cases. Helper functions for

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Engineering professor. I can’t express how grateful I was to be a student at the ... . I even had a conversation with Marc Abrahams. He told me to look out ... -researched but also ridiculous (e.g. a paper on the best way to slice a ham

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  -258-8304. Please be patient, as materials take a day or two to process. Now, to get ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... ! Yesterday, a student came in my office and said, "Pink! I've never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy ... selective a college was because I knew that some would be harder to get into

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh ... to practice with me makes her happy. (Aside: My mom was a cheerleader ... , and I have to write a paper for 21A.260 and a pset for 5.60. And lead a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  stop for questions, but a couple times students have stopped to ask him ... time to introduce the concept of the Fourier Transform, he gave a 10 ... Optimus Prime can be a truck or a robot depending on what he needs to do, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006