Search

Search Results

• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  it way too seriously, but a lot of my friends have recommended it so i ... subcultures of mit, i do actually take on group identities and it usually turns ... close friend to understand how overreliance on a small set of people leads

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  focusing on the second part of the question "being a good friend" felt more ... all the buzzwords. On the other hand, I think I got a lot out of this ... themes appear in some way here. We know you lead a busy life, full of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  Olsen: On today's episode, Chris Peterson, Director of Special Projects at ... attributes, different ways of thinking, different ways of doing things. And the ... Peterson: Well, I would focus maybe a little bit on some of the preparation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  the weight of "not good enough." I've said this time and time again and ... stupid one of the group. No matter how many pats on the backs and heartfelt ... because any job is a good job. I do not expect to get a job out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  feet on the ice. Now hockey may not seem that foreign to many of you ... it will be a total of four within two weeks. A heck of a way to spend ... excitement that went along with it. That also meant that on occasion it was

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  underground, mining a good amount of gold and lapus lazuli and a couple more ... , imagine trying to come up with a way to automatically generate a pattern of ... whole new phase of development.       [caption id

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the many fitting themes of Prof. Tod Machover's masterpiece Death and the ... 's sneak preview of the production, technology, quite literally, only serves

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you ... ? Not much, honestly. I'd been doing aspects of this job on an ad hoc ... things to focus on, we've crowned Lydia Princess of the Internet, and Her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  community based fundamentally on principles of care and radical inclusivity ... surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  's gonna feel so, so good to finally have it taken care of after this ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and getting cold glares cast my way each time I shared my schedule, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  way more challenging than it seems, so it ended up with many of us ... . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the ... variation on Madeline's motif. The rest of the track just plays with this riff ... . Like all good video game music, it sets up the right amount of tension to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  was part of the packaging of my brand new awesome laptop): OK, I find ... come grocery shopping? That way you can buy lots of big, bulky things and ... won't be embarassed posting pictures of it on the Internet), this is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  , so I catch the sunset on my way out. Some of the sunsets have been ... the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from ... been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  that, yes, E=mc2. The new mayor of Edison, NJ, Jun Choi '94, was sworn ... stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new Technology Review had a number of interesting MIT articles, including this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  , solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the ... small great programs. Anyway, I decided to visit AMS sort of as a way to ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... -- approximately 5.5% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  ! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might ... with those people along the way. 2 - MIT is really good at surprising ... classmates have this way of going about things -- whether it's their schoolwork

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  around Europe (and milking goats!) Waly N. '24 of New York, and yes it ... CANADA which is exciting perhaps only to me, sits on a hoard of unused ... , Chinese webnovels, and exclamation points !!! Masha G. '24, of New York

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020