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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  advantage of one of the best opportunities MIT has to offer. You won’t regret ... her for life outside of the MIT bubble. I love hearing other students ... . Matt '11, another GEL, was featured in the winter 2011 issue of MIT

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  offer of admission (it's okay, we know you're making the best ... Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are ... preview of all the fun that we’re planning this April. Check your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered ... , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I ... . One of the things that make these blogs special is that there is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I ... around them, if you can. So look for opportunities offered outside of your ... abundance of Diadema antillarum, the spiny sea urchin, inside and outside of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  field (Physics, Mathematics, Urban Studies, etc). One of the most popular fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of ... -Japan Program 2011 Internship: NAIST, Nara The project: After spending much of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  of the images themselves, offering concise, descriptive language to ... everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started ... 's work and calling do not lie in the theoretical disciplines of calculus

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  One of the defining experiences of my 3 years in high school(we had a ... monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... where the speakers shared their insights about the ins and outs of being a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that MIT has to offer? He's the kind of person will read Marcus Aurelius ... mindset you have. It was something really general, along the lines of "what ... now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most likely have to submit some sort of documents trying to convince the people

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  semester of MIT. I offer the analogy that MIT semesters give large pillars of ... this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  know what the daily life of an MIT student (i.e. me) is like. So i decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts and I can imagine them being lots of fun (for me

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  . In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the ... , along with the QB supplement, in place of our first-year application ... ’ve completed all of the MIT requirements. You will not be considered an official
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  might've had your mind blown. He's the type of Guido that made a ... constraints on the typology of human language. In particular, our latest project ... number of men ride horses at great speed and fire long-rifles into the air

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  towards positions that offered the opportunity to do design work. I finally ... hard, and nobody (openly) judges me for lying down in front of the ... things left to do during the next two weeks. I came in with a list of goals

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... test last month.) This morning was out of the ordinary, though, because ... 's talk about the SAA for a bit. The Student Art Association is one of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... lot of the people watching his programs thought that HE was the one ... they would only have said if they thought that all of the discoveries he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... bad day when there's the faithful five ounce bag of honey barbeque

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012