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• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

   interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for ... advice, I just linked to a lot of previous bloggers’ advice and recommended ... to someone comes from my own experiences, a sample size of [latex]n=1

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... . To be honest, the food tastes a little too "healthy" for me, but plenty ... science department! We listened to presentations on "How to Invent Food on a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few ... Summer Program – Summer Programs are a great way to make good use of your

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter ... you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter ... We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  How do I apply to the Women’s Technology Program?

  WTP is a women-focused program aimed at empowering students from groups that are historically underrepresented in engineering by providing a ... students to Mechanical Engineering (ME) through hands-on classes (taught by
• FAQ / International applicants

  Do application materials have to be in English?

  All application materials must be in English. You may have a professional service or a teacher in your school complete the translation, but ... any documents, please ask him/her to sign and date the translation
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  I graduate and don't get to be a rockstar blogger anymore. Ack!) So ... are more likely to go a little something like this: (A friend sent me that and I had to share. Tensor! Ha! Get it? Don't worry if you don't, a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  peer-reviewed journals. MIT has a program dedicated to giving you the opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... was on the now defunct MIT ChemECar team. ChemECar is a competition to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  . Along with my friends and my roommates, I've been on a mission to actually try all the cool places I live so close to! We've seen a live music show ... anyone local wants to know :) It's a bit embarrassing how much cool stuff

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  after 7pm Got stuck in Stuttgart returning back to Zürich because of a ... Learned to cook a traditional Czech meal in Prague Went to my first wine ... , and went to my first bar in the US FALL Started a new series for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  to see the lights turned off and people napping, sitting on a couch next to a friend i know's been busy recently, napping peacefully, and taking a picture and sending it to him to tease him, reminiscing about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would determine whether it belongs to a language or not. Formally, we will create ... get a bit more complicated but this is related to the idea that there

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by ... mentor, Steve Little, to no avail. That is, until one day when he changed a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the ... "]current events topics[/annotation] and thirty minutes to prepare a seven ... , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  wonders of educational television, I wanted to be a cosmologist like Stephen ... to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... community. Thanks to my well-documented genetic inability to win a single

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... my last blog post in a desperate attempt to preserve inspiration, and ... incredibly difficult for me to complete my work.” Then I’d solve a problem or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity ... challenge was to visit an onsen together, which is basically just a giant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem ... to start a business... now I'm ready to WRITE!!!! (If you want to see ... a month ago, and I couldn't get myself to edit it. But now - I

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010