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• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  great competition that sends many alumni to MIT and is broadly aligned ... would post updates from my West Coast trip after I returned, so, here is ... Sabrina's work as an excellent example of what an MIT education can make you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  hounded with endorsement deals (well okay maybe Snively is) but it's a pretty big deal to us. The annual blogger selection is like the Admissions ... . It's not a perfect metaphor. All MIT undergraduates are encouraged to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  submit a proposal beyond "lying on the beach," but often little more is ... financial aid at Connecticut College. We at MIT are among those college ... sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you can send a letter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  I am two days away from finishing my first semester at MIT. How did that happen? Most of campus is already cracking down in preparation for ... MIT. In my humble opinion, and the opinion of millions of fans, it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  employment listings and the UROP webpage, just surf around the MIT site. From ... , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is ... bubbles." This is similar to Shannon's comment, which suggested that the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  clearly envision their potential experience at and after MIT   As I ... understanding MIT. So I fired up the old email client and sent the following email ... know, we are redesigning mitadmissions.org (and sfs.mit.edu) this summer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  that it's such an important part of MIT undergrad culture that the site is really incomplete without one. We even have a free-food@mit.edu e-mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our ... of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels ... of projects, and is now a community of people interested in the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  and/or summer. You can even get paid for it, which is awesome. [caption ... that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to ... there are resources out there that cover that. The UROP site has a page

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  Hey all! I haven't been around this site in months, and rather than ... . #2 - Exercise and sleep are corequisites to sanity. #3 - It is possible ... called the Clear Conscience Cafe, which is right in front of this

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional ... has an incredible amount of passion for research and loves that at MIT ... years ago, adiponectin (see the ribbon representation on the right) is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... stand side-by-side, each one holding three or four floors. Each floor is ... to phones to mobile network recharge cards. Wednesday is usually an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  , representing MIT. Here is a small sampling of our collection.   In front ... ’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming ... provost, an MIT alum, and some of them are planning on continuing the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  Global Initiative, which is a very new project aiming to connect MIT ... over with - pushing me officially past the halfway point at MIT. (AHHH ... is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... worldwide fan communities. The idea is, people tend to think of media as ... creative production is an intensively collaborative process, whether that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ... , participating in competitions like MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  March was the busiest month at MIT so far. It truly felt like it was ... into two categories, and the amount I spend on each category is extremely ... that I took out of this month is time management when things started

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  admitted to MIT without completing a science SAT II (for someone who is a ... student-run ambulance is back in service now, so I expect that to take up more and more of my life. =) There's only a week left in IAP, which is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  't seen her blog since I got hooked to the MIT site - four months ago. Is ... anywhere, but I imagine she is pretty busy, especially now that reading season is starting! I don’t know for sure, but I’d say you can expect to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  Australia found this site by Googling the phrase "what happens when you ... . Turns out that there is no page on the entire internet that scientifically ... . Schuh Subject: Metal cooling question Dear Professor Schuh, I am an MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005