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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  undergraduates (which is not the norm for high-quality research institutions ... do to get in." No one activity is "better" than another: the best ... high school senior asked: I am applying to some schools in the US for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  , the question of how to best distribute bodily mass on sleds is a ... cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... compare it to that physics demo. The institute is the speaker, sending waves

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the ... find dates. Luckily for some, the Senior Ball Committee of 2005 created a ... can balance my equation? --Asexual reproduction is for pansies. --Let

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  Rodrigo is an MIT senior. He worked in the same office as me for a summer or ... for being the best Tim we could ask for. ... things in a big, bulky beaver suit. So this video is for you, Rodrigo. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  engineering is the field for him. Chemical engineers get to draw on math and ... Franklin High 'regular guy' bound for MIT by Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian ... venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  same direction, then the atom is at a higher energy level than if one is spinning up and the other is spinning down. The electron can spontaneously ... called "hyperfine splitting", for the reason (as best as I can tell) that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  commentary is perhaps more relevant to those readers who have followed on the ... I'm on the subway or at the market. What gives me pause, you see, is ... my place. For the first time ever, I told myself, I'd have a true peer

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... thesis research for him on my own for the next three months, so nobody

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research. As is typical of MIT, the work is ... of MIT's Center for Cancer Research is the principal investigator on a ... school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  and continued for some hours into the day. Down the other end of the ... efficiently, by the time I woke up for the second time at 11am there was not ... this will go on for. The construction has begun at 8am for several

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for ... , writing, and directing. They also enjoyed role-playing games. The end result ... " for short. Since its inception, Guild members have infiltrated the KGB

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering Capstone courses, and it has to be the best class at MIT by a long shot. You ... aforementioned finger! Yes,  The truth is, I know so much about 2.009 because I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... in the comments and apologize. Best case scenario is of course, that ... ’t worry! You can read the updates for Early Action at this blog entry

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  ="Residential Exploration, better known as REX, is a multi-day experience for first year ... seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... at a table at Burton Conner, I decided that that was the dorm for me

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  even bother. The thing is, I don't need physics, not really, for the ... . The thing is, I don't know anyone who scored higher than the average ... the semester, is 8.033 – relativity. And yet, sitting in lecture, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  the best youth of this and other countries, the Institute is obligated ... Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many ... on everything. As the election nears, it is important to acknowledge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the ... .0, where anybody can put anything on the Internet and everybody is equal ... revolutionize the way colleges advertise. MIT is no longer a photoshopped ad, it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... classes in the fall, I realized that I was heading in the wrong direction ... biologist, I was always going to be a biologist! Biology was like the best

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  science for 30 years. No no. I'm serious. Well, this is it: the last time I ... formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and was merely the best approximation that scientists had come up with. He

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  bike lane is, as the name suggests, a lane that is reserved for bikers to ... the direction that direction is expected to use them. There are several ... this entire blog and is the motivation for me writing it in the first

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026