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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  , that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top ... communication skills are key to long-term career success. 'Being the best scientist or engineer might make you the head of the department,' she says

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  Yes, I'm in the American Southwest... Yesterday, I had ice cream with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From ... get to browse some of the 1100+ projects, followed by the big lunch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  , what could we do?) Today, the MyMIT Portal team had our weekly meeting, and one of the topics dealt with writing. It got me thinking about some ... frequently writes for The Village Voice, and last week, her piece was the cover

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to ... graduate of my favorite school in the universe, and have a hockey jersey (and a degree, and lifelong friends, and...) to show for it! Sorry for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I ... , and I completely missed the presidential debate. D'oh! Tomorrow night ... should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  campus. Military training has existed at MIT ever since the Institute ... commissioned from MIT, of whom more than 150 have reached the rank of general or admiral. The three Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs located at
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  home is actually my mom's secret surprise to my grandparents. Over the ... year for the past four years, just out of my mom and I's pure love for the city. And now that I've chosen a university that is quite a ways

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  the past month I've been here. "I am smart and capable and ready." I don't know if that's the truth. In a previous blog post, I listed out my ... then, I didn't understand the content as well as I should have. Even then

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  myself the embarrassment, I won't be posting that here, but it reminded me about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions ... the[annotation note="this also gave me an excuse to avoid studying for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  'm exploring the role of a bacterial communication system called quorum sensing ... according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to build a phylogenetic tree that helps me analyze how similar the protein

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  really could've prepared me for the reality of it. It's a genuine timesuck ... just to keep my head above the water. 5.601 is more or less the same. Apparently it was even worse last semester, to the point where when I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  two of them are technicals and two of them are not, but one of the not ... taken up by classes or extracurriculars. My mornings are taken up by the ... at 9am Get ready for the day and eat a protein bar Leave the DPhi

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in the subsequent month, and by the end of September I got a ‘pretty good

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my life--SZA, Solange Knowles, Sappho, my mother. Schoolwork saturated the ... snippets from the past month. (I've kind of been following my own schedule

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the ... exaggerated position, just to start. Regarding the myth that, as soon as some ... make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , I mean that I'm not attending the last two classes I have today ... blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so ... through classes, time goes more and more slowly, the lecturer seems to have

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  ship it all the way across the country. But we do, so I started packing a ... half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... , especially since I haven't been doing any of that (thinking, that is) for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... 't ambitious didn't feel true. Maybe the problem is my definition of ambition. Do ... approach to work, science, and passion. So, I've spent the summer mulling

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to ... , however, a freshman only lottery over IAP. I was one of the lucky ones to get drawn for this lottery. I did not accept the position because I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021