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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn ... autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same ... coded this with the Python version of Drake, which can be used for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  lot of this together. Okay, deep breath. Here we go. Remember the ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander ... , being founding director of the Broad (more on that later), and "world

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  from MIT, in 1986. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Brain & ... Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a founding member of the McGovern Institute. She joined the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  have to experience the torture of filling out infinite applications again ... of stress from this job-hunt season. In just under 4 weeks, all the ... culmination of the first three years’ hard work is going up against the dice of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  ="residence exploration, a ton of events during orientation week where frosh explore the ... one of the East Campus events, I learned how to use an electric drill ... kinda hard; a lot of the slots were full), and then went. The training

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time ... , Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more ... from throughout the duration of last year that I would not have any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  . He's gone through a series of various door-opening mechanisms over the ... box of EZ Mac to gain entry -- but he's finally settled on the simplest ... eye on scientific breakthroughs of the past decade or so: As a member of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of ... Anna H. '14, the MIT blogger, spend the weekend of Jan 13-15 doing? Your ... to the site, and but the blinding array of colors with which she color

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  reason, and with many of the the same goals. And times have changed, and so ... up with folks from MIT Comms, who were leading the redesign of MIT ... , culminates today, in the launch of the MITAdmissions redesign. Why did we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  computer, not on the runway...), equations, whoa science is actually kind of weird." I'm excited. Hopefully by the end of the semester, I'll be a fluid-flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... to be sending several up several prayers during the course of this ... wake-up alarms - all very loud. To offset the impending stress of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students ... report. You can download one off of the website if you need one. Your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  instance, younger you is a part of you in the same way your arm is). Hence ... back to all of the things I had done leading up to the first application ... and am. I'm usually the sort of person to either hold onto a passion so

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of ... , on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes ... (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students ... old age I cannot remember any of the restaurants he recommended). You

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  the event of a crash. Most databases use a steal/no-force design, which ... step out of their slumber and into the courtyard. I put a patty on the ... of the coolest things on East Campus; that my neighbors are so kind. He

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  between good and bad music. In keeping with the theme of nostalgia and high ... things are now. A lot of people reading the admissions blogs are rising ... .12."]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I didn't know which schools to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019