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• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  who’s just about to start the college application process, which might be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little ... me, but MIT is a reach school for everyone and it’s difficult to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  of people ask me whether it’s hard to be pre-med at MIT, particularly ... balance work, friends, sleep, exercise, etc., a skill that’s just as vital ... , and as of January 2014, there’s a Stanford Med student blog too!! I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  least not officially. Come on MIT, what is that? It’s breaking tradition ... -neon-game-faces, we scootered our way to viCTory.   Garrett S. '17, Andres A ... , Christina S. '14, Cosmos D. '15, Hesham '15, and Alison O. (GRT)   As a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  with MIT's mission to make the world a better place. We deferred ... and were not able to be considered. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It's an honor and a pleasure to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  ESP classes here and here. This year’s 266 Spark classes included ... sends the completed protein product to the Golgi apparatus, the cell’s ... we extract it from a vegetable or fruit. Here’s all that in vivid

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post and Michael C. '16's post about yesterday's events.  Also, see Chris ... friend Ali F. '16's hair and it came out great :) I also dyed my hair with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  that there’s stuff to go on the front page. It falls on the shoulders of ... on, work to be done, and I feel, especially after this year, that it’s ... throw you for a loop, but it’s ok to make mistakes. If we didn’t make

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  message you want to get across in a strong and memorable way. And that’s why I am so appreciative of MIT’s theme for the Inauguration of our new ... and make it work in the world. " Now that’s a theme I can really stand

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  . p.s. I think even my iPhone is getting used to our new relationship ... MIT gives us a ring. p.p.s. to all the upperclassmen out there: don ... frolic in the joys of psetting while I can, eh? p^3.s. don't worry, despite

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  prepared for such a monumental task as forecasting Europe’s future in ... the heart of its citizens. There’s the gentleman who spared me ... out the nearest elevator. There’s the person in the laundry room

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  The MIT Food and Agriculture Collaborative (MITFAC). What’s that, you ... to enhance MIT’s role in contributing to the broader discourse on ... ! Here’s Maisie speaking at TEDx Fruitvale   I learned a lot of

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  you want and it’s going to feel so good. Imagine me sending good luck ... Singapore (It’s amazing how we managed to meet at another city half way around ... could barely sit still. The musical was magical and I swear Wicked’s

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group(s ... bright student had to drop out her junior year in college because of dad’s ... educations, it tends to cheapen an ethnic identity. It’s as though being

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... reason I’m in China is to intern at an architecture atelier at Beijing’s ... more serious. But that’s also when the real adventure begins. The first

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  I came across a news article on a friend’s Facebook page the other day. The U.S. Senate congratulated MIT on its 150th anniversary in ... to: S. Res. 195 Whereas when the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  today’s traditional funding structures. Too often, researchers design ... of our core economic and social institutions. He believes it’s time the ... will help people self-organize to solve social problems. He’s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  hardware pioneer Limor 'Ladyada' Fried is on April’s WIRED cover. This is the first female engineer to appear WIRED’s cover (as well as the first female ... devices from operating within a user’s personal space. By building

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  talk about was MIT’s Rainbow Floor, which I honest-to-god stumbled upon ... ; More information can be found here. They also have some good bird’s ... link: for the record, the piece’s real name is Bars of Colors within

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... rain thing down. The first thing I’ve discovered is that umbrella’s don ... , but rainboots are a very nice invention. Especially on MIT’s campus. For

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  GEL program’s final leadership lab of the semester, during which a ... through to get where they are today, but there’s something about the phrase ... , talk to non-science people. Let’s get this conversation going and we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010