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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  exhausted with the "glam" life and retired to the mountains of South Carolina ... the Year of the Dog. The celebration featured my favorite dog and admissions mascot, Evie Cummings. This initial photoshopping of Evie spawned

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  ). I have also had candidates ask me "what majors are offered at MIT ... MIT?" If you are enrolled in a degree-seeking course at a university ... beginning of next academic year, or possibly at the conclusion of this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  anyway. MIT offers a really cool unique thing known as joint degrees, a ... fully pursuing the computer science degree at MIT? Am I "giving up" or ... would you rate the quality of hum classes/UROPs/opportunities to STEM at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  : very few of the photographs below are originals) Beacon Hill Boston ... , so I've been spending a lot of time wandering through Boston. Everything below is within walking distance of MIT -- and I'm not one of those

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  really answer it. At the end of the day, you really just need to trust your ... enroll at MIT, just appropriate evidence of academic preparation. Sounds ... on multiple choice and standardized tests. I am at the top of my math

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  Institute of Technology. She said she arrived at high school with a passion ... ranked second in my class and I applied at several out-of ... local school, I applied at University of Texas, but my first choice was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  into the apartment, and have all kinds of grownup things like furniture ... by Saturday night, but we really didn't clean out all of the boxes ... 's worth of clothes so you don't have to unpack and then repack your temp

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  be afraid at all. But I am alone, and thinking of [annotation note ... typed away at the back of an empty cafe. "Coffee is the drug I’ve been ... vast number of edits to come… (at least the dark [a section of the book

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... children, but at the end of the day they are generally heading in the right ... a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  the MIT Museum. Not at MIT, you could take a tour of Fenway Park, walk ... delay responding to our admissions offer may have until Tuesday, May 3 at ... sorority events, though. The social scene at MIT is really what you make of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  was my first offer, and it was more money than I’d ever had at any point ... , because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... year, a blank slate, a fresh start. A momentary burst of confidence and ... too :o"]2 days for Thanksgiving[/annotation]. Then, it's 3 more weeks of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  At MIT, there are two weeks between the last day of finals and commencement. The second of those two weeks is called Senior Week: the class ... very good at card throwing. Large objects appeared out of nowhere, people

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Nick asked: "I was wondering how you got your job at the NIH National ... answer. As part of my high school's curriculum, we were required to ... research at the NIH. So, I dug around the NIH website (http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  , and changes of power on Capitol Hill. At MIT, we learned more about ... the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record ... , designed fuel-efficient cars of the future, observed subatomic particles, won

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  classes were just so-so for me. At the end of last spring, I made a major ... offers. Thus, this semester marks a brand new start for me at MIT. Moral ... journey with my major choice so far at the Institute. I began with my mind

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  Surgical Sciences Masters degree? Now you get it online from one of the best ... enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at ... Learn offers courses based on the idea of learning through conversations. Over 3

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  were not at MIT. I backpacked through north India with a friend of mine ... practiced at MIT. I struggled to understand what was the point of all the research at MIT, some of which I was involved with, if successful research

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  Lower East Side of Manhattan, speaking Greek and Ladino at home — did not ... thirteen more, and still compete annually at the Head of the Charles ... .50 in late fees at the public library.” But of course —  and as Damon

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024