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• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  activity list, list of honors and awards, self-reported coursework form, or ... misspelled words I see on applications. And, thanks to GoogleBattle, I'll tell ... As you begin your MIT application and other college applications, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as ... and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere. For those ... showcasing the culture, talent, and innovation of each dorm, while also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  of 101, my stomach is hating me, and I keep getting chills. MIT Medical ... -chairing Obama's Council on Science and Technology. We're threatened daily with ... reschedule exams (like my exam on Friday potentially), the Dean of Student Life

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... through this entire bin of orange, red, and green markers until she found ... ), CSC (Chinese Students Club), and ATS (Association of Taiwanese Students

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for ... audience, and so on. i have a bad habit where i tend to assume at first that ... , and of all the things they could do as a friend to make me feel better

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  Cambridge and Boston skylines on the sides of the ring: while you're at MIT ... 'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  So I just got this email: Don Rawitsch, one of the original inventors of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk ... I will be at a formal on the 33rd floor of a building in downtown

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  . My anxiety, which had centered on feelings of fear and uncertainty ... I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  lots of actual, concrete stuff in every lecture. So every Tuesday and ... ," and feeling all enlightened and such. Part of this is because the class ... documented some of the sleepless night I spent the other day working on what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  favorite time of year, and even though I'm not the Macgregor rush chair this ... , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... of a Nobel laureate fangirl) that I sort of ran into the wall and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  to me and delicious! On the last Monday of the externship, we had an ... alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... during the month, and I worked on a challenging R&D VR project. While I

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... , and a variety of other fields! I was the last person I thought would ... -campus and out of town so that I wouldn’t start feeling burnt out before

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  made happy and excited on EA day, and a lot of people were significantly ... , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... (and this might make a lot of people mad), whether you are an INTJ or an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from ... classes; junior year was lost to the fog of the pandemic; but sophomore and ... , and taught us about the principles of poster-making, slogan

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my ... procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on travel and trying to free ourselves from the predicament.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online ... , and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website Khan Academy. Students can access hundreds of previously unreleased
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  desk of an admissions officer. On Monday I went food shopping, which was ... . Only, he made fun of my tacos and said they weren't very good, which was ... other a lot, and it's kind of neat. Meara from across the hall cooks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are ... Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT ... on it. In April, we all dress up fancy for Ring Delivery and poses with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  , and Nadeem Mazen '06, proprieter of digital design and consulting firm Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is ... on their showcase, this commonly includes engraving all manner of glass

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  it is made of gold and features a beaver on the front. Why a beaver ... ] Hornaday's book on the animals of North America and instantly chose the ... decided to adorn the bezel of the ring with the beaver and have a three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005