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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... . From Jinjin: I don't know how much you know about this, but can you ... website, and say that if you send me your contact info I can put you in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  money away you can make an awful lot of it! This is not to say that for ... remains relevant to continuing ed-tech utopianism. However, if you ... ) today, you should probably read something else. This week the tech and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  Square in Cambridge on the Red Line; you can get to the airport by subway ... veterans. It all looked so natural and so easy, and he wondered where the ... on Third East. In the lottery, you are assigned a room in which you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  . A big is someone who typically looks after you and helps you get acquainted with Greek life and you can continue this family line by getting a ... introvertedness of freshman year, where I frequented the same three spaces every day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  [annotation note="And, now that the semester is over, that tin can truly is empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I ... rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  . Welcome to REX. One of the first things you learn when you get to college ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If you’d asked me even a year ago where I ... “So, you gonna play?” I said, raising an eyebrow expectantly at

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  lemon Sam also ventured into the great outdoors. Here you can clearly ... campus, you antisocial upperclassman.” *Or girl. Through clever choice ... shot of the Boston cityscape. If you look closely, I believe you'll see

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  fried potato pancake (can you detect my bias?) What makes this debate ... guys will get to see it. I assure you that the real thing was much better ... explain Terrascope. Terrascope is a project-based class where freshmen solve

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  my work is needed to get it done, and that I can depend on everyone to ... you get the idea. I love the interconnectedness of MIT, how many ... CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... time-consuming. Recognizing that MIT can get quite difficult, that ... learn. Many MIT students you talk to will understand a distinct

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  taking one, so I wrote a blog about it. You can read that here. I just ... where you think “I would do this thing…if I had time”? I know I have a lot ... of my work there. There were no set hours: just work as long as you can

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I already have a degree?

  MIT doesn’t award second bachelor’s degrees, regardless of the course of study. We encourage you to apply to MIT as a graduate student.
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  collective responses of the other players. You can see that quite clearly in ... coins that you can donate. After the money in the fund has been ... Rules You are a student at [annotation note="which stands for Missouri

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the technical ability to make it happen -- can meet by chance, attract ... unique to open MIT's research to the world. I'm sure most of you have ... scientific questions can evolve to real findings. George had a number of ideas

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to be real creative real fast, or else you can watch your grade plummet ... was probably something like a 50% (I’m looking at you 6.046). There

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is make sure everything is done on time!). As you may know, we have our own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I include a portfolio with my application?

  Yes, you're welcome to include a portfolio. Visual artists, makers, performing artists, and researchers may send portfolios for review by MIT staff or faculty through Slideroom. Detailed instructions for submitting
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  really need to go get caught up on work so I can have fun this weekend ... ! :) That's where I was! I'm sorry I missed you! What team? And more ... So you guys. MIT is hard. No, seriously. I figure you've probably

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  in shape year round. I never have to worry about voluntarily getting to ... , labs or recitations in these hours. However, if you want to cross-register (at Harvard or Wellesley for example) or if you want to take graduate

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... things that make you feel alive. every week i think to myself, well, this ... comes up and everything somehow gets a little bit worse, and i cut out one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019