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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  , or using quick-fabrication methods like laser cutting) can be better ... making sure the device could be battery-powered and compact. But having ... hours to oversee; Josh B. and Sally M., working on the tech review model

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  the Admissions home page with only my face on it (with the updated ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance I have wanted to advertise the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  moves to the back button, but before I can click, the page loads. To ... will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... school, I'd go to the library and do work in this school, I'd go to sleep

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  this feeling. And it can be kind of terrifying. Even applying in the ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search ... into the goblet of fire and hope that you’re chosen to be a part of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  mentors and coaches to write referrals for interns so that they can skip the ... reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... interning at Microsoft under their New Technologists program. And while the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... . Writing well often means “being in the flow” and if you are not there, it ... already know how valuable it can be to learn to write and express yourself

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  that sufficiently paint the picture for the reader, and then leave him on ... , standing in the limelight, I look over at my teammates and can't help but ... no machine can tell you. You've been warned. Click.) 3. The first and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  be yourself”, and the other half (plus the countless pseudo ... and fitting in, freshman year can be overwhelming socially. Especially ... So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  . My legs and back have been supremely thankful for that. On the minus ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you ... Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  and eating midnight breakfasts together. So, on the occasion of ... as often as possible. The worst thing you can do in college - and in ... prepare for it. I've now fully realized and internalized the fact that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Canyon Road on Christmas Eve, with the farolitos and the music and everyone ... , and on weekends I went places, but for the most part I stuck to the ... walking, now passed. All the cars on the highways and the trucks stacked

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  keep it on the front page for one last day. VEDA has been very fun and ... make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do ... organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  drag on your energy and belief in yourself. Dealing with the internal is ... reading this article the other day about how we can be discriminatory in our ... empathy. Or alternatively, the empathy we feel for some people can be more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  conservative, and on a scale of reactions, 0 being the horrific “I’m disowning ... part of that process, I polled the bloggers on blogging features and ... they want to write but can’t have the blog be associated with them. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... of the class (as measured by the weekly hours on Firehose) and the ... .034 but found it very enjoyable, while the opposite can be said of 6.006. IV

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  , you can go to the library and check out textbooks for free. If, on the ... be more or less prepared for MIT based on the work that you have done ... , and to capitalize on, their admission. Now, more than half the students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  weather today for the marathon? But it should be done by now though” and ... and how they can donate blood. “I am O-, and donating blood is the first ... people could be so nice and welcoming. My host family picked me up at the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be immersed in experiences beyond compare, and that'll be all the justification you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  rocket, How to be very smart (like us), and Gayness Is Defiance. In the ... then, it's expanded to include middle schoolers, and be held in the ... . The logistics would be substantially different with either option, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  offices and goodness knows what else, on campus and around the world. As ... are that they’ve been through the process before and can at least point ... find a UROP, I should wander the halls of the department and knock on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011