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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or ... always carries that “judging a book by its cover” risk, but it is at least true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  for Admitted Students. Although a lot of my time is spent preparing for ... and spend a bit of the afternoon in the home of a wonderful MIT Alum ... information and RSVP if requested. There is a whole MIT community that cannot

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  Condry, an MIT Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, is giving a talk ... Undergraduate Economics Association (UEA) is hosting a lecture by Frederic Mishkin ... programs in China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Spain

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of the most exciting things about being a student at MIT. The flagship MIT student research program is UROP. When you do a UROP, you find a professor
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... , the authority's research and development staff will be hosting us in ... concepts, including a "faster" moving sidewalk (no joke...): This thing is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  [Drown], a collection of coming-of-age short stories set both in Santo ... : Intensive study of a range of texts by a single author or by a limited group ... lectures a week (~15 people, discussion class) fun fact: Professor Buzard is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  ’s a list of Financial Aid Deadlines & Required Documents on our site ... because we’ll be in committee making decisions about Regular Action applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity ... entry. Don't go to China Pearl; it doesn't have a shark fin. The first time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  episode is being advertised with the tag line, "Turn a Poker Dud Into a Five ... poker player and currently is an author. He has published three books and ... expressing what they think about and what they do in a precise way," he said

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  that your uncle is in fact crazy.) Cutest observer ever: A note ... .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... I'M DONE WITH FALL CLASSES! and am now back home in London, doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  crossing rejected one for some reason; I had a folder with documents proving ... is easy these days. Fact 1: my internship switched to being a Canadian ... could not enter the US with me. Then I had a crazy idea. This was in late

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of ... have to be that guy on LinkedIn who calls himself a “incoming summer analyst” starting in October, but it is good to explore professional

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  Allison was worth the most because she's a girl and artistic. I was worth in ... Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT ... to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What’s the difference between Early Action (EA)/Regular Action (RA)?

  Early Action/Regular Action isn't a big decision at MIT. There's no difference in the review process or criteria used for admission in EA (non ... decision-making process. MIT’s Early Action program is both nonbinding and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  world, including in India and China, working together to build a plug-in ... M.I.T. Energy Club, which was founded in 2004 by a few grad students ... demonstrate a 95 percent reduction in embodied energy, materials and toxicity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  're having a conversation. What happens is that: I have this big picture in ... sentences. Carol is a fluent speaker. She can hold extended conversations in ... records in each one. It seemed that, after deleting a document, one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  and influence policy solutions for mitigation and adaptation In a 3Q ... everyone else at MIT who wants to be able to grow old in a liveable world —  in this topic, I wanted to make a quick blog post letting everyone know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  administration. That, supposedly, is coming at 1 pm. I sit around in a kitchen and ... all of my feelings; while I wrote up a bit more in April, it’s remained ... the text is readable, but I've decided to post it in its unfinished

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  W. '16, is a project that explores the modern fad in personal ... major. She cares a lot about recycling and reusing, which is reflected in ... is a doctoral candidate in Course 2. These designs makeuse of Emily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  thing called scrum, which is basically a method of getting work done. in ... standup is scheduled to be fifteen minutes long. 10:30 AM i came in a bit ... a month is back, and i pour myself a cup. for the first time in two

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019