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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  extracurriculars- and with the admissions blogs being the thrillers that they are, it ... , and walk past a large chunk of Boston University. On the plus side ... five-dollar sweaters. I stopped by on the way back from my interview and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snowpeople & a hammershark more post-blizzard sights around campus --

  

  A couple days after the blizzard, I walked around campus and took some quick shots of all the snowpeople-and-other-things in sight. They ... scrambling to finish the Sketchbook Project (introduced in this post), and this

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  face, it might not be the best thing to write about. Introspection can ... know all that stuff! Try to center the story on you. Looking back and ... that excite you and how transferring to MIT can continue the journey you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  wearing jackets outside and the leaves will soon stop being green. And also ... hell week) and you can relax, take a breather, and get ahead before the ... almost all of Wednesday working on the 18.112 pset, and realized that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  , and triumphs that can be found from talking to anyone here. Since it ... Friday (whew! more time to prepare). You saw blizzard coverage on the MIT ... less a blustery snowstorm and more: This picture was taken on December

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black-and-white-and ... magazine and starts ranting and bashing on all the non-Helvetica typefaces ... telescopes, we spread our blankets on the driveway and sprawled on our backs

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  ? And to be completely honest, I really love MIT from the mobius strip in ... try to tell you about all the awesome things going on at MIT and the ... , and I live in the house now. This picture was taken at Susan Hockfield

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  room numbers and the extra hallway on the fire evacuation maps on the ... , the fifth floor of Building 9, the basement of Building 13, and so on. I ... accident and also ended up getting completely lost in the middle of Stata on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... struck me on the day after Einstein's birthday, two weeks after an article

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Chairs, and Admissions Committee members, can be the most important ... is a place where I will be challenged and I can hone my writing skills ... "well-prepared" can be demonstrated by using the lingo of the field

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (sitting on the right) The three ... and is now a teacher in Concourse. (He's on the far left of the Team ... Hamentashen. One is a sweet and versatile triangular dessert, the other is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  , and why all of this means that you will be able to get the scientific ... time you specified; and the data will be made available to you ...  EVLA time, and 4 free hours of VLBA time: that's free time on two of the most

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  coolest part is that most of our members are freshmen. And you could be the ... to show the same generosity and kindness to others in helping them ... to create a program to educate students on the significance of

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  filling out timecards. All of this information can be found on the UROP ... analysis And the list goes on and on. But of course, doing a UROP is a ... ? -  Can you afford the time away from your coursework? -  Can you work on a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  laughed, turning and flagging down the guy perched on top of the wall, who ... on later, when the flash-bang chaos of REX and Orientation ends. So ... here to being thoroughly undecided, and I don’t have the faintest clue

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  redesigning the wrist joints that allow it to turn in place, and then we'll be ... -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work ... ). Invariably, the answer has always been "dive in somewhere and it'll work itself

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  would be a great idea because I'm planning on taking it next semester and ... has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on ... course and they're only offering the half semester ones now, which I guess

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... VLA to hand the papers back to Dale, who happened to be on-site. AHHHH ... . "Magnitude" here could also have meant "importance." The term could be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  didn't feel invested in my classes. Finding the right fit can be a ... Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... class that I wake up thinking about and work late into the night for, not

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... eventually and I can't decide!" So, here's a post with my course history. It ... thing now, but it's 12:07am and I was supposed to be in bed 7 minutes ago

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013