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• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  . None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should not send supplemental material unless the application did not ... music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year ... project on visual image processing in the Schiller Lab. More recently, he ... polymers that can kill cancer cells. Berry may not know the exact ingredients

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It's as if all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to ... 't have very expressive eyebrows; for the past half hour I've been mostly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  Ayush wrote: "How about a Clown Parade around the MIT campus? That ... 't think other MIT students have the extensive circus training I have been ... you?! Aliza wrote: "I love your blog name and the subtitle. I didn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  reference to Cambridge and its neighbor Somerville) The weather here sucks. It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... 'd make the trek out to Davis Square via the T (the Boston subway line). The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  ? And how did you get to be hosts? Are all the bloggers automatically ... completed. So it's about half personality and half random. :) All the hosts had to volunteer to host, so the bloggers aren't automatic hosts. (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  decisions and dealing with the mail mixup. But it's been one of my better ... morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  Saturday/Sunday was the famous MIT Press Bookstore loading dock sale. Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so they're sold for drastically reduced prices. And the "damaged" books are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  cars. Mine were the Chevy Lumina, Olds Cutlass, Pontiac Grand Prix, and Buick Regal — not the whole car but about 200 parts (which is about 1% of the car). While there, I also volunteered my time coaching the high

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  . We went to PetCo by the CambridgeSide Galleria. (The Galleria is the ... every 20 minutes). Sunday was pretty hot and the shuttle's AC was broken ... what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel ... the same dorm I lived in freshman year, Simmons Hall. There, she ... campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a ... undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... during their time at MIT. Two are humanities classes, and the others relate to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... , doing laundry regularly), and worse at the things I used to do automatically (ie. drinking water, eating food, turning off the lights before I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team ... about language models and AI bias! Step 0: Getting the internship Every ... two computer science classes at the time and didn't feel very qualified

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then ... generate blogger avatars, just for the fun of it. also there are different art styles across the blogger generations so it might be cool to try the

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

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... attitude with work in the past, see e.g. there is no such thing as a typical day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay about Alexander the Great. It could have taken far less time, but it was ... /no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  It's that point in the semester when days and weeks blur together in ... just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in ... it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020