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• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  in just how many maker spaces (or spaces for making) it houses! To try ... makerspaces on and around campus. In addition, they’re able to add descriptions ... in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... books is nothing to the number of books I used to read in middle school ... , I figured beginning to develop good money habits would be in my best

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  major projects in order to split up important work and keep the product ... everyday, which is definitely preferable to a long walk or commute. From the ... learned in classes, but hadn’t had the chance to utilize on my own. It

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  rowing. I decided to come down to DC for the conference back in October or ... I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation ... due to the weather conditions in both Boston and DC; the first real

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  this post, i am very happy to talk more in the comments or via email, not ... values in any way, shape, or form? In applying to graduate programs in ... ’s impossible to do things like run into someone in a hallway and say hi, or walk

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world ... instructions that I would need to follow in order to be sure I follow the best

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 721. Though they are all different in their own ... sometime in March. If you are deferred, you are not expected to send us any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... to strip the title of anything actually evocative of the piece in the ... shall remain Rainbow Floor (@MIT) to me. So, in order to take these

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... or turn in important forms on a computer or something, but then again ... minuet dance lesson for us to get us more in that baroque mood. 21M.500

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  passionate about way back in August, and knew I wanted to ED it, no questions ... applications (while wondering why in the world my interviewer hasn't bothered to ... . I wanted it to be totally perfect. 100% perfect - not 99%, or even 99

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  courses. And we highlighted in blue the skills we learned (or started to ... have done at MIT in an attempt to illustrate that, despite common belief ... ] figured out that our career goal is to work in the Animation Industry, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional context on how the pandemic or other circumstances may have disrupted your coursework, access to testing, and extracurricular activities. If you feel it
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  mention hundreds more students who weren't admitted to MIT or chose to ... the comments thread in this post to leave your best wishes for Ben as he ... As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in ... , need to develop time management skills, or are facing challenges that are ... how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  to hop between projects, ask for help or input from anyone else in the ... " or "comparison" it can get tricky!  Finally, in order to test the ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  every saturday or sunday my freshman fall, i'd go over to have dinner with ... problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... is in your problem set, that topic you tried to independent study but

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  , "What is the deadline for SAT scores to be sent in?" Please designate your ... , "Is there a deadline for deferred applicants to send in supplemental material?" I'd say it's best to try to get things in by the beginning of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  community. With privacy becoming increasingly more consequential in our day-to ... first class back in February, the Georgetown Law students flew up to ... best to learn as fast as we could about the law in the short time we had

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  I was in an independent living group (sort of like a sorority or ... . I’m a teaching assistant. To get funding, most MEngs have to TA or RA ... fellowship. In particular, we have the 6-A program, which allows you to intern

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023