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• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  follow Nance's "Beaver" act, but managed to draw a few laughs. I was disappointed to find out that people still didn't know what a UROP was! I have ... lab of a Nobel Laureate, get a paper published, and go to professional

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been exercising this quite a bit with my switch to 5.112, adding my HASS - Disease ... , though, and I started to realize that maybe I'm doing a little too much. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  to have spent a semester looking at the world through the lens of ... , to chat with Prof. Jonathan Gruber, whose experiences spanned a PhD at ... , ultimately bringing him back to a professorship at his undergraduate alma

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer ... later on in my high school It seemed to me a little cruel How the right

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  employed by writing new blog posts, and I hope to do about one a week from ... . Sometimes I'll consider a personal project I'm not attending to, or even a ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  paper and do that pset when you have a puppy to play with. Thanksgiving ... enrolled. In the spring Baker House usually drops a piano off their roof to ... "]it sucks.[/annotation] You have a week or two to drop a class and it costs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  profits from his NGO to fuel this expansion and establish a fund for ... ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set up a global warming research center in Antarctica.” “Why

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  started and ended with the Net Price Calculator (a nice tool to remind you that you can’t afford a $60,000 per year education). I went to info ... didn’t want me to turn into a 30-year old cynic at age 18). Every

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can't wait to ... , and it is. As a matter of philosophy, we have typically preferred to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... to have more freedom and fewer social pressures. It's a great time to ... are great places to do this! "Right now I identify as a cisgender queer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  technical pursuits. And I've begun to feel a certain yearning to do something ... (because I've been practicing piano). And I have a cheesecake to bake for my girlfriend's birthday. Nothing like a well-rounded life to keep you busy.

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  to blog a little more than a year ago I wrote the following: My blog will hopefully give you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd ... you have to be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  best to get a noncompliant five-year-old ready for school. Not easy, even ... went to a bookstore in an old white house and looked through old Indigo ... was and wandered over to this coffee shop. The barista looks like a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a country I’ve never been to before that speaks a language I kind of know to work on a project that covers subjects in chemical engineering

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas ... attendance. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  fair to compare one or the other on par. Joining a fraternity doesn ... something that you get just because you show up to all the Rush events for a specific fraternity (but this is a popular misconception). One week prior to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 ... theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  limited to): the IB, A Levels, the French Baccalaureate, and CBSE. Your ... We understand that it's difficult for international students to apply to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  spring, I started talking to a postdoc (Binbin) at MIT's ice rink ... long enough to practice jumps on a public session and decided to just ... project of a reasonable scope for an undergrad to be doing; no, seriously

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this ... will be a great opportunity to share your CPW experiences as well as

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008