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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  has certainly been different from any we’ve seen before. The economic crisis has affected many, here at home and around the world. I know that many of you — students and parents — are concerned about the future

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to all take the same core curriculum as freshmen. This not only ... . But that's actually part of the point of biological engineering: it is a ... continuing to evolve from the various fields that originally gave birth to it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus visits—the Eastern seaboard trip to hit the Ivies, the midwest trip to hit

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute ... misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to about MIT's supposed lack of fun, but also because I used to think the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  , realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the next problem. This may have been, subconsciously, due to the hope that I may understand the next question and not feel dumb. Unfortunately

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major (thanks, Mollie!), MIT rose to the top of my list. Even so, I couldn't help but worry as I waited for the Admissions Staff to send back their reply

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 undergraduates. The EECS department is the best in the country and has pioneered the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Dheera Venkatraman, a crafty MIT student, has just completed the latest ... 's administration doesn't like it if you hack the door locks or the strike plates ... . He's gone through a series of various door-opening mechanisms over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  Today after the admissions info session in Kresge (where it also took ... analytically rigorous. I tried to describe an article I recently read from the ... explanation. Let me try again. First, here are some excerpts from the article

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural ... predator could possibly prey on the cicada without also evolving into a 17-year life cycle I bought a JuniorTicket for 13.40 from the Leverkusen

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  /09/06... ------------------------------------- Many people wrote in with concerns about the application tracking portlet. Please don't worry, and there's no need to call the office for at least another week or two - we are inundated with mail at the moment

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  I've been working on this one for weeks, but you guys know what the ... Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision either by courier mail or online? This is because the problem comes not

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  I'm a bit under the weather today, and I'm still working on the next Omnibus, so it's time for more odds & ends... The band Hot Hot Heat ... 'll find the following big concerts here over the next few months: Gwen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  newspapers across the country publish articles highlighting students as they ... 'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  into the way-too-big trailer, leaving nothing behind but my empty room ... 'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly made peace with that, except that I still think about the paper towels

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  student as time has gone on, but I definitely haven't gamed the system yet. That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... , constantly drawing and re-drawing mechanisms of all kind. Remember Afeefah, the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... the MIT community at any stage in the process of of starting a company ... , visited startups in the Boston/Cambridge area to see what a real nascent

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I would never, ever, perform in a musical during the semester. Rational Part

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  just wondering. for the interview...is that too unprofessional? the nose ... process, and want to learn about the important things that make you you. As ... 't want everyone to be the same -- part of what makes MIT exciting is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008