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• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  humans and their time on this earth (it was AP Human Geography after all ... page contained one of our names on it, saying we were all traveling off ... going to go, I was more focused on the prospect of high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  : interesting and brilliant people; students of every major can take nearly any class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren't uncommon; people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences Favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  well for me—I like focusing on fewer things at any given time, and in ... ’t randomly hit up someone on my floor to go get boba. Plus, many of my closest ... responsibilities, and that’s totally fair. It isn’t for everyone. In terms of career

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of ... to write about. Over the course of this flight, I’ve written and ... ’t — and still don’t — have all of the answers']things I felt like I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  , polishing the brass and oiling the cherry, with the hope of having the camera ... light-reading, and setting the aperture and shutter speed on the lens, the ... , and that was it. Well, sort of. Later that week, after spending a half

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  don't have everything?: We will not act on any case where we don't feel ... I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the Application Tracking System and what makes an application "complete." Let me try

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other (it ... and (b) I can blog about it. (By the way - while I may write ... revealed.) So the three of us had lunch today. Allow me to share an example

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  along the ground with great ease, and can also be fitted into any set of ... of my short life. -- Hokay. So. Nine days and 10,000 miles of flight ... fact that most of the events are on Saturday afternoons, which means like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  a second UROP in MIT's Plasma and Fusion Center, read a paper on ... consisted of a fork and a quadrilateral plate. The final product was savory ... bugs were not found in any of the ingredients. The next distribution

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  After a year and a half on a forced meal plan, I have now been freed ... is not expensive. It does not take a lot of space. And it cooks such a wide variety of things, rice and not rice, which make it a worthy

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up ... , I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... weekend and I can give you a sticker, too. It can even have glitter on it ... reduction on food. 13:17 - 14:17 LN2 Truffles and the Chocolate Nash

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a typical pset might only contain 5 problems, every one of those problems is ... hours on a pset and finally understand how a certain equation can be

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and ... with five classes and a few other extracurricular commitments, I am on ... formulate a response, before I could think of the joy and fulfillment MIT

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  unknowns. for example, it was only through a graduate sitting in on one of ... mit police, and why we do certain things. i wouldn't have thought of ... . yesterday me and matthew '23 were upgrading one of esp's servers. the last

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  aid after February 15th and it will not hurt your chances of receiving ... ’s a list of Financial Aid Deadlines & Required Documents on our site ... Hi all, Many of you have already filed your application for

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  returned home and couldn’t stop crying all of the time. So I got out of my ... lot of people relate to sad and angry, and D) not everything I post is ... wish I could make sense of it both to myself and others. Someone got

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Kresge Oval on MIT campus. The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and ... , Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... picture that worked.   Meanwhile, on the other side of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  more focused on photography and then writing some accompanying text as a ... significant amounts of photography experience, and I don’t usually take pictures ... this semester are 1.013 and 1.041. Yup, only three classes. The glory of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  and move on." I unfortunately haven't completely learned the art of ... of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor ... reconcile with was that I put a lot of time and effort into these, even if the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023