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• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made ... . Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I ... with one person’s perspective on it that might be of use to anyone

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... suffer from cancer the way she did. That day, I began a binder full of ... devote the rest of my life to cancer research. As time went on after that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  on stuff. ... Of course, in reality, you are missing out on mostly ... 's put it this way: far from the nicest facilities on campus. -- Your ... of a single time where everyone on hall is asleep during the semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  . Thanks Asli! Alex reported on the Austin meeting: It was a lot of fun ... are under pressure and go out of their way to help in everyway possible ... literature (although some clearly were not good in studies at all - one of them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  's motto. In this way, it was good that I couldn't entirely rely on English ... extra classes. On the way back, my flight was delayed again-- but don ... polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards ... classes go by."]6.042,[/annotation] which I call it by instead of the new ... uncertainty, and the field of probability came out of people finding ways to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  On New Year's Eve, my family went out to see Book of Mormon. When ... "yes" on behalf of myself and my neighbor (he shrugged as if he didn ... impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  . My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a ... on a public on-line publication would be rather rude of me. Hacker ... discussion on collegeconfidential. Basically the gist of it is that the admit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  potential new ways of analyzing how in-context information is used by a model ... fallbacks of depending too much. I learned to be happier on my own, and ... dependent on someone or something in an existential, unhealthy way, you can

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  of love was based on an imaginary future that I pictured with a boy who ... A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is ... an interestingly prominent part of his MIT experience. Knowing that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an ... contraction, but obviously even I thought of it slightly differently, if only on ... - "gonna" is emerging as a grammatical element, another way of expressing the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay ... break catching up on internship work, and starting a new novel. Then the ... on, as I took in the different symptoms for proposed diseases, all of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants. A quick roundup of some interesting news... A nice article in today's New York Times science section: A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of ... Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... ? (All photos are credit of Jo Tong '08) That's outside MIT's Green

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  diligently worked on many "theories" of my own. Problem, they are all, well ... depend on the subtlety of the proposal; the best ones tend to arise from ... thought that was a lack of interest. Anyways, is MIT planning on sending a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  the T on my way to MIT. I was filled with that very same childish ... comfort zone is the best way to grow, and that I shouldn't cling on to ... skill. It was as if we were walking on a movie set, in the way that it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on the status of your application components. The Application Tracking will ... Now that our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  literacy and cognition. Fundamentally, a good admissions officer is not defined by their mastery of rare tools, but by their mastery of common tools. Yet since rarity of skill and rarity of tools are so often and easily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014