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• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  I can pop into unannounced, and I wouldn't feel out of place making an ... also helps if you can read quickly -- there's a lot of reading in college ... have a list of books I've read in the past few years. Also, if you have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  getting in :) Beyond that, I'm afraid I can't be of much help. If you ... chances of getting admission? Is there a way I can still have the interview ... : I'm sort of in the middle of a bunch of traveling, so my answer won

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Wits is an awesome example of a place you can work after you graduate, I ... Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I ... chunk of this, solely because I can. Three people from my school applied ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew ... , “Of all the airports I’ve been in, Logan International is on my shit ... , to signal that I was not interested in establishing some semblance of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... that they can give me whatever questions remain at the end of class - I ... with a few of them and discuss majoring in physics at MIT. I realize that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  multiple bottles/cans of caffeine. I ended up taking 384 pictures of CPW, so ... of the criteria that I'll be looking for in the guest entries I publish ... of my creative days, it's one of my "I have an entire day of toolage

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  actually involved in selecting the class of 2010??" You can view some of them ... to send in a Mid-Year Report. One of MIT's application brochures says I ... still send in supplementary materials and, if so, until what date can I do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... choice in going back to China. But I felt a pang of both regret and longing ... feeling. I have put a lot of effort into being in touch with all of my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  with MIT, so be forewarned. =D Since the middle of June, I have been ... even one protest in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Truthfully ... under Taiwan's Universal Health Plan, I really had no sense of the great

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  virtual reality, and photos of every VR event I've been to in 2017 so far. I ... valuable insight on what kinds of experiences work best in VR. While I ... . If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  I can't help falling in love with the excitement of obtaining a ... yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... only 1 mm in length as an adult - so NO, these are not earthworms! i can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  brewing through the very air pockets of MIT, and I was able to breathe it in ... ) on one of the roller coasters. As you can see, I’m the poster boy for ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about ... fill in the gaps =) I still can’t believe that they scheduled these ... A preview, courtesy of today's MIT homepage: It was 2:03 pm when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update We plan to release Early Action decisions on Monday, 12/15.

  

  copy of that email here. We'll have more details on the decisions in the days to come; thanks for your patience. In related news, I can announce ... . Here is a chart of EA application landmarks over time: In 1982-83, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  . There's these corners that I can hide in and do my work. It's quiet, but ... . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in robotics, which got buried down in my conscience by the stresses of adapting

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work ... involvement in international development @ MIT. Enjoy! In the grind of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the beginning of class. I am not a coffee person. I rarely drink coffee. I do not like the taste of coffee. I oftentimes burn myself when pouring coffee

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  middle of the road to figure things out. I stopped where I was, in the ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... . Dead phones can't make noises. But a concerned person can. I woke up to someone

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800 ... Ponchielli's La Gioconda. In his later years, Arrigo served as director of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005