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• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three ... famous for its stereotype, "Nobody ever sleeps." In fact, this is not ... /refining your skills in the language. It should be an amazing experience

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  career to the Air Force in exchange for tuition. As for med school itself ... started at MIT. Medicine is an exercise in delayed gratification."]fellow[/annotation] in Washington DC. I love asking questions to move an entire field

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  admission department to reach out to kids in areas where an in ... an admissions guru (lolz) when I was still in college, I offer the same ... others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  will give you cookies without razor blades in them for trivial reasons ... There is a whiteboard in Ben's office which was apparently once used for admissions work, but for years it has been taken over by students

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  / Ice Dagger combination for the rest of the game. 2. Coding in MATLAB ... in the sink at all, ever, for any reason (or in any other constantly ... 'll rust. Your kid will wrinkle up if left in the bathtub for a couple hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  performing in a group recital in the spring. As an Emerson Fellow, your lessons are paid for in full. The requirements are: taking Advanced Music ... /ensemble/piano accompanying, and giving a solo recital in the spring. In order to audition for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  blogging for us, we are primarily interested in people who can tell stories ... year, dorm, and course (either that you are in now, for our upperclassmen ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  -run art group that focuses on providing an open forum for artists and ... been given an actual office in CAVS where we host "office hours" (open ... HONK! Fest in Cambridge, a parade to reclaim the streets for horns, bikes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  an editor for the MIT student newspaper, "The Tech." As editor, his ... news. It was as an editor that he received a letter in the mail. The ... There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  [Guest Post] How to get paid to be funny by Abby S. '26

  

  Fund for Humor is to "impress students with the importance of humor in ... ideas. For weeks, kazooing could be heard down the Infinite corridor, in ... practically leaped off the table and were gone in a matter of hours. As for me

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 31, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  in a group with five other MIT students. For Physics, we designed a ... an eye-opening experience in terms of reading one's students. With ... real world public power supply operates. In Biology, we led students

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  -built formula cars in the world. FSAE is an international, collegiate ... wheel formula cars. MIT’s team designs and builds an electric car for the ... in different countries. While I could wax poetic for days about all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision ... this fact in the application good enough for the admission commitee? (The ... some really tough courses (3 science subjects and 2 Maths in A Level) for

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... questions about what the company is looking for in its candidates. Before I ... , an engineer in Kenya might advise someone in management who is in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... -based course led by Professor David Wallace. 2.009 is required for seniors in Mechanical Engineering, and it is, in the words of Professor Flowers, an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  .” *An aside: My classmates in senior year voted me most likely to lead a ... , not even by an MIT person. In the end the lottery granted me 24 ... , which provides for a great environment to have an open discussion about

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  : Lawrence Academy senior Quentin Smith works on an independent project in his ... Washington, D.C., in June for a presentation that might include meeting the president; and those most impressed by his summer job -- as an intern for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  advisor: How do I know what to take this year? For starters, CJ has an ... class or substituting the HASS CI-H for another intro class in a different ... you take in your freshman year are usually going to be reserved for GIRs

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022