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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  to illustrate our culture is by what we do, so here's a glimpse of just ... Alright, here goes.   I’m a Burton Third Bomber. For the ... the dorm Burton-Conner, and 2), am lowkey part of a cult—a rowdy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Around November, a crazy idea nested itself ... price range for a field camera with decent movements. The bellows alone would cost me around $500, and I was on a student budget. But what if I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  , fall, and winter, I feel like these depictions do a pretty good job ... (speckled against a backdrop of green), and most do little more than sprout ... with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I took my life day by day, moment by moment. 2018 was a year of many ... Championships in San Jose, CA Stayed with a host family in Germany while

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  , while also working two UROPs! Am I not doing enough? Maybe I should add a ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their ... spring I took a chance with five classes, and while I made it through it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  do think Hawai'i changed that and made me a bit more fond of the whole ... commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just ... 6. I'd cook dinner and shower; now it's 7:45. Then I'd watch a movie

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do ... more important. In a few hours from now, you'll read the decision ... , thoughts, and personality. Your decision won't change you; only you can do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ,527 outstanding undergraduates who already call MIT home. Though they all do ... , high character, and a strong match with MIT's global mission to ... reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action. Deferred students do not need

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  which I do a lot for my blog. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux ... 's larger than your computer screen. I use this a lot for the jobs I do in ... , I've filtered out the ones that I've found the most helpful. Here's a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  , Pt. 2) from a few years back before you do so. It's a terrific ... . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted ... MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  have received a lot of entries from y'all (during the time when I visited ... year, with more excitement, a better prize, and more fame and glory ... exciting picture of what you're doing this summer! You don't have to be in it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... a decision, or you haven't even applied, I'd prefer if you stuck to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  again. There's so much that I want to do (especially now that I'm a senior ... , but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating. 10:00 AM -- Shower, eat, do homework (and write this) 1:00 PM

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  Hi! I'm blogging live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl, the ... that some of you have not heard from your host. Do not worry. I assure you that you have a host, and that you will be well taken care of while

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit our Tests and scores page. You are not required to send your…
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  as it's cohesive and flows well. Honestly, I didn't do a lot of very ... acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  doing so ensure that we don’t make progress on said problems). or, for a ... classes as a result, ultimately resulting in them not being able to do math ... mother, so they abandon him, enabling a future where he doesn’t recognize

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  class to have four exams. Most classes that do have either two exams, a ... In my mind, [annotation note="Many, but by no means all. Giving a number is hard: do you count distinct classes, or should you weigh classes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... are doing, because they don't use full scores. I asked if they have a ... From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  fifth"]sixth graders[/annotation] at my elementary school would do a flash ... song that the sixth graders decided to do a flash mob to. And then ... a fidget toy for me at this point -- as well as baking banana bread

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022