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• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  I spent the majority of my time re-reading and re-examining my ... the 13-draft essay that took me three solid weeks of revision and wrote ... solar panel systems. iHouse had the honor of inviting him to dinner and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  Well here are a whole bunch of interesting things, and I'm just going ... for the project. So I sort of threw something together and spent a bunch of time running crash simulations and plotting the results. I had no

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  , athletes, and even Facebook stalkers in the student body; all of these people ... goats and triangles with ears. And of the people who go to MIT right now ... If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... with my grandparents, and we had none of the technology, especially none ... massive objects and space-time and the various wavelengths of light, the sky

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced ... blogs and application info, and had a working knowledge of all the course ... other, and happy that we could throw away the remaining two-thirds of the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  a walk through Little Italy. The smell of the bread and garlic early ... at the top of the hill. Ok, time to listen to the blog comment and climb the stairs of the monument. I wandered over and saw this sign

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in ... loft to block out the rest of the world and a touch lamp shining into the ... and the reach of the already dim ceiling lamp (most of my room) in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  less tangible subjects, namely the homogeneity and isotropy of the ... around us. I disagreed, pointing out that the bits of whole peanuts ... discussion to a close, and at the end of the day, we accomplished nothing. No

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, this is a lab class where we learn about some of the measurement and instrumentation tools that mechanical ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  right, and I mean RIGHT, next to the commuter rail. Most of the time it ... tick mark is 25 cents, and at the end of the year, we're going to have an ... and I have it 😇) F - Cleaning Dates This keeps a record of the last

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... . Except there were a lot more of them. And then, day by day, the buds ... flowers bloom all at once and all in one place. It’s truly one of the most

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  . But first I want to tell you about the most exciting part of the trip ... -trekked across the width of Germany and basically all the way through Switzerland ... for an exclusive Turkey vs. Spam picture and video of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing ... planning and usually driving and short periods of time with the specific ... in your room and “hang out” without the express purpose of making it a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... . The Bee was between the first and second semester. I might have trouble ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  , which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.) We went to the ... officially missed the last T run of the night and decided to take a taxi back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  figure out what's wrong and take steps to fix the problem, but much of the ... chunk of the day to get to the store and back on the T. I will note ... -zero integers a, b, and c. Well, it just ain't so. I mean, if the cold hard facts

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  the inline skate community, one of my first images of a “rollerblader ... 3am and skate my PNR emotional frustrations away. The feeling of ... minutes and get more sleep? Even better. Getting Out of the MIT Bubble On a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  don't do it?) put your best foot forward and talk about you, the bits of ... whole lot of fun. So procrastinators and re-writers alike (or anybody else ... left the house, and then forgot to publish it. Well, here it is, a year

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... MIT email addresses, and even then, you could only see the profiles of ... MIT (and beyond). But it was the blogs that first brought us together

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  this, check out the Financial Aid website and also Daniel's blog. I hope ... for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the MyMIT website. [If ... their time! Try to get your application components to us in advance of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006