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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  aspects of research, to show anyone with a knack for knowledge how ... as to how all of this should be presented, but he was no programmer ... This is a story of how two MIT students -- one with a fabulous idea

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8 ... running horribly late because I decided it was too windy to ride my bike ... got to the classroom and discovered that class had been cancelled for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... be hesitant to report your ethnicity because you don't want to be ... rumors to the contrary, being Black, Latino, Native, or any other minority

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  to go to 3.091 (Intro Chemistry, solid state version) today, to see for ... musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading ... transported back to my days as an MIT freshmen: the excitement I felt learning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  , and they will receive directions on how to submit their letter. We also ... welcome to apply. Please email us at [email protected] stating that you are a QuestBridge Finalist who wishes to apply to MIT Regular Action
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  for hours gushing about how badly I wanted to write for it. At least I ... out how to keep track of them all, but I also am trying to learn that it ... legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  - and learning about how they work is important! 7.013 (Intro to Biology ... as a platform to observe how creative children are, and also going ... about how awesome my classes are and how excited I am to be in them :)

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  .404 pset, thinking about how Cambridge feels so foreign to me even if I ... first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  "On taking a 'Gap Year'", I remembered that I've been meaning to write ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my fellow '12s in an effort to get to know them better") Matt's entry to see

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  's for some ice cream. As we tried to figure out how to navigate home from ... surroundings was limited to the MIT area, Chinatown, and the Back Bay. Now, I ... 's super fun to hang out at and also makes for an unconventional date spot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  ’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation? (200-250 words ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  to my 21A.01 “How Culture Works” professor explaining that I would have ... online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  . Usually I'd mention how you have to wait to get off the plane but this seat ... you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the ... Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  networks. Hopefully during IAP, I'll have time to learn how to do perfusions ... two workshops that taught me how to handle and work with rats and mice ... 're looking for a testament to how awesome rats can be, here are some rats

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... learning how to jump out of airplanes, the Army way. That means you go out

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  power to decide whether you will stay in them or not. This does not necessarily apply to McCormick, I'm not sure exactly how that works. 3) Your ... black macbook to write my entry. I, of course, have to add MIT content to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  be using the waitlist, and, if so, how many people we'll be looking to ... The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies ... government will sell shirts or hoodies with "MMX" or "MITMMX" on it (props to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The exposure. The experience.") Well, I'll write a whole blog entry dedicated to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... on schedule to mail decisions in mid-march.) MyMIT has been pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005