Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine ... it. It's infamous for the inordinate amount of time that it requires of ... of the seniors in Mechanincal Engineering are split into teams, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group of college enrollment leaders and college counselors from across the ... that they provide a reminder that the vast majority of those who do this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  This was the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  —WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements ... to catalog.mit.edu) The degree program currently consists of: 6 ... . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions ... counselors are calling flabbergasted that the best students of their careers ... out there. Many of the questions that we're getting are totally

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... ="Comparative Media Studies"]CMS[/annotation] CI-M. CI-Ms are part of the communication ... typically get out of the way your freshman and sophomore year. Then there are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the ... after earning a degree. Then I came to the realization that I was unhappy

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm ... the topic of this blog. So far this semester, I realized that I haven

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all ... taking advantage of IAP being, well, independent, and is elsewhere for the ... all back with new entries. Cool. On the topic of blogs, does anyone

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  have a long history of watching awful horror movies (think The Evil Dead ... minutes before finally stumbling upon the new, extended DVD release of ... MIT's 28 fraternities in the fall of my freshman year--while I had no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  " of intro bio- another flavor offered in the fall as 7 ... what finals week did to the 213 suite. First of all, everyone is always eating and never doing dishes, so the sink looks like that. Second of all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut ... -Piper said of her MIT experience: "The brief thumbnail sketch of getting here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... the ones), intimidates the part of my brain that has suffered through ... a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you ... - remember that you can call us after 3/18) - otherwise, we'd be offering "online notification" which as you know we don't offer. :-) MyMIT will only

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... ;n> without going through all the work of actually being <n>? Build a ... taken, and my evolving road has left a record of all the things I ever

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  your Part 2 (thank you for doing this in advance of the deadline ... of your opportunities, not just in math/science but also in the rest of life. So we will evaluate you within the context of your opportunities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... out of the belief that MIT students, regardless of their field of study ... GPT. The following thoughts on this topic are advisory from the two of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  morning. All I do, is read her the first line of my offer letter. "Dear Paige, On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer ... 've figured out the puzzle-- maybe now I will have a shot of being admitted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  place several miles off the coast of Rhode Island and roughly three hours ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take ... Judith to the shores of our destination. As our ferry cast off from Point

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011