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• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... degraded to the dream of a varsity letter gathering dust in the attic. After ... plates, which are usually allowed to be stored in some common area

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROP in a field [annotation note="Many people use UROP as a way to ... trying to find a UROP because of this, and instead waiting for an ... UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... . To me, he was simply a great teacher, in every sense of the word. He ... Last Thursday, Bob Silbey, a professor in Course 5 (Chemistry) and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to ... life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  the second day in a row. he was my teammate. i sat next to him three ... she does a beautiful job trying to express the ineffable. No amount of ... is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  pick a weekend in March to hang out in the city?" she asked again. "Well ... Kendall Square.  And  to top it all off,  a performance in Kresge of Steve ... cranking  (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  this exercise: find a friend. Pick one to be the doctor, and the other ... hopefully pick up enough phrases to find a job outside of the factory ... interning at a fairly large Asian public health clinic in Oakland, CA. During

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

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  attend CPW, then you'd have to select your choices (there is a lottery in ... , you'll get the i3 stuff in the mail. If you never had a chance to visit ... to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... particular, she wants poverty to occupy a more prominent space in MIT’s ... of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  to spare. BAM. In other news, I just got a text from my friend saying ... A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning, and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  away from “bad guys” and throw a stone in a nearby well to ... If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... collaborated with MIT professors to improve their curricula and published a book

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  off to find exam booklets for me. Twenty seconds later, I had a fangirl ... to. A few months later, I declared a major in physics, and indicated ... that they do in fact believe I ought to become a professional astronomer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  to you for my dad's desire to keep expired milk in the world a little ... brought to you by the letter E! EEEE!") In a perfectly formed and ... that the "Sell By" date should be taken in a literal sense - "the milk

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  where he was in the hospital to spend time with him for a week. It was ... Four years ago, in October 2012, Lydia published a blog post titled ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle ... ensues After landing in Italy, we took a bus ride down to Sermoneta, where ... I possibly can. It felt like a maze that was impossible to get lost in

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  PC are not available for Macs, it's usually not hard to find a ... lots of activities... So it's kind of hard to participate in a math ... Books - we took a moment while on the road to marvel at the realization that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Doves Cry.. I'd heard this like a dozen times in the car driving up to ... the song comes in with kind of a funk-metal tone, and Clay begins to ... it was a lot like the strange waking dreams I used to have in 18

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... toons + others to a chill time in his room called WINTER IN SPACE: he read ... Git, a version control system that helps to coordinate/collaborate your

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself ... justice to how profound and enriched that time in life was.  A year after

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023