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• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  QuestBridge Finalists that ranked MIT will be contacted directly about how to access our MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a Quest ... @mit.edu. After you email us, we will contact you about how to access our MIT Quest
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Tuesday before CPW, caught my attention in particular. In it, Yuliya the ... 's around 30 pages), the task was quite impossible. After all, how do I pick ... participants get to burn food and then eat it)? What's worse, is that 6 minutes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  analyzing SAMMS (self assembling monolayers on mesoporous supports) - in it ... 't, start collecting quarters. Eitherway, it's always good to have clean ... new friends. Preferably someone who knows their way around, it will come

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of turned into an entry of its own. I am dismayed that this year and next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  days, see how the institute has changed, and go to snazzy events together ... students to help staff events and run registration—it’s only a couple of days ... straight to evening rehearsals for We’ll Get It Right. We’ll Get It Right

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  , and somehow found it. Welcome to Japan! I work at a pharmaceutical lab ... email calling for cover letters to apply for the job. This is how MISTI ... enough, a job offer found its way to my inbox in January. Here’s a normal

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  'm hosed beyond all imagining, but as it's basically my LAST WEEK AT MIT ... of dignity. I do it all for you, dear readers. So, entry number 1 ... ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 2. 12:02 PM I'm in D-Lab right now (it occurs to me that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  , it also prevents students from being pressured into declaring a major ... . But that's actually part of the point of biological engineering: it is a highly interdisciplinary field, especially here at MIT; and it is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  requirements. We learn how to model, analyze, and control systems. Control ... component, and though it’s only 2 hours a week, it really helps with learning ... . It was hilarious. So, everyone should call her Lauren now. Prof

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  seemingly obvious hole in the middle. So I know how easy it is to dwell on ... this week (Wednesday, in chemistry), but it's my favorite class (and not ... worried about it than I am about my first major paper due the day after both

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  than that, though, it helps you realize just how many opportunities MIT ... This morning I got a frantic call from my mother. MOM: Is it true ... . Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  applications. As always, it was quite fascinating; I learned a lot, met some good ... international students is quite competitive (~4% admission rate last year), so it ... a just few of the standouts on this list, and how they might fit into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  reading your applications that most of you understand how it feels to really ... begins! 3098 applications, up ~10% from last year. Doing the math, it ... even more difficult, but doesn't change the fact that it's still

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  the answer, or cover it in the next recitation. I really like her. I ... student hands us a worksheet with a bunch of problems on it. There ... as long with people as they need. I have tutorial once per week. All

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  , but the waiting list was long and it took a year before her transfer was ... , the more she realized that it fit her personality so much better than ... they called it), it had been decided that it wasn't really necessary, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  their excitement is infectious. It's made me realize how excited I am for ... ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... thinking about this upcoming year. It feels brighter on campus with a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics competition — announced that its cofounder, MIT Professor Woodie Flowers, had ... understated grandeur of that great domed hall. He liked it in Lobby 7; sometimes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it ... pacific science center laserdome. a few weeks ago it was fourth of july and ... media and mediation on MIT's instance of mastodon (it's like twitter but

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  musical then transitions to a song entitled "It Sucks To Be Me" so let ... program in economics (either Masters or PhD), though it can also be in ... another destination that recent alums I know have taken. It is becoming

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  It's finally spring in Boston! And unlike the occasional t-shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine ... to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018