Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  service. Decorated with medals and ribbons on graduation. You've heard of ... . You’re putting yourself on paper. Recognize the things you did and fell in love ... prepositions at the ends of sentences and phrases. See how annoying I sound if I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  issue, and you don't want to spend lots of money on prep books either, you ... half-week of classes, and my first problem set, which was intense. I ... don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a prep course, you can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the below are national/international, selective ... Science and Engineering Research Science Institute (RSI) Secondary Student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  on his Wikipedia article and then saw video footage of it on CNN. I ... The Colbert Report, just like a real college student! And so I did on ... and my very own cable back in Harrisburg. What channel is it on YOUR

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  theater groups and classes here at MIT. She made this very coat as part of a ... mythical and mystical city set in the apocalyptic world of Gaia - so it made ... Last week, I promised you guys an update with photos of my Halloween

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  I'm the biggest fan of football, this was a great game, and the ... .) So I leave California on Saturday morning to enjoy the wonders of IAP ... coin hidden somewhere on campus. The hunt starts Friday at noon and ends

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  was to write a letter reflecting on what we had learned, and I decided ... . Scrutinize a block of imagery for theme and characterization? No problem ... wrote tens of thousands of words, and yet have nothing to show for it. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... students and alums, you should learn a bunch of the jargon that we MIT folks ... Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  through the next 6-ish days! Hope your Thanksgivings were full of food and ... friends on the fourth floor have Guitar Hero II) was part of the reason this ... can get it off your mind completely; after all, you're on the MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about ... mechanical engineering with liberal quantities of video editing, blogging, and ... enjoyment of my smooth, melodious voice may be misguided (and a touch creepy

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars per month to operate on top of that. Overall, a terrible product ... – you always know exactly what I need.” And so, my opinion of Bevi

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  represented here is still some extension of myself and those who are closest to ... these somehow, but some combinations of majors, years, and belongings are ... address and really a sort of identity"]kerb[/annotation]. All of these

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  alarms, the torrential rain on the first day of classes, and playing tetris on my calendar, we are Fully Back, and it makes me question the time i ... relationships. i'm happy that me and joanna had an adult breakup and that we're on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Postcard From The Green Building postmarked july 5th

  

  sense. As the sun set and Cambridge's night lights winked on, every ... Yesterday I took photos from the top of the Green Building. MIT sprawled far below us, the lines of its normally inscrutable architecture

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  It’s The Time To Disco

  

  check out the Disco Dance Floor and hung out for a while on First East ... If you've haven't yet read about (or danced on!) the MIT East Campus ... video: [AVI (DIVX), 5MB] [Quicktime (MPEG4), 28MB] That's a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  included both avatars drawn in the current style, old style, and out of style ... hours of the morning and only realized later that I could've done certain things better, and redoing things would take a good amount of time"] should

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  small strip of grass between Walker Memorial and Building 14. It was ... to the animals and parts of nature whose voices are "silenced ... some background on recent happenings at MIT, so please bear with me: An

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and ... returned each email and assured the authors that we were on the same side ... That title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... : Wing It - $9 In one week, I'd spent $61 on food. This does not even ... spend almost $1000 on food when I should be saving up for my senior trip

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006