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• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  country and track team is to Jamaica Pond (part of the Boston’s Emerald ... Olmsted, the Central Park guy), and the route is full of fearless packs of ... a whole theory about the different types of dog walkers down

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some ... student community made up of some of the world’s most intelligent and ... the words of a wise colleague, “Don't throw spaghetti at the wall and

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

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  ceiling of the Simmons auditorium and display my work of many days. There ... past the rows of viewers. I donned my best cardigan and favorite boots ... , the black night sky, and the tiny worm of the crescent moon. I was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  lilt of my voice and the curl of my hair. I’ve chosen to be the man ... of my life.   2.    Spite, and Anger, and all the Rest   ... science and math classes in high school. I cared deeply about the content of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  . Walking to the other side of the first floor, we pass by several common ... friendships and forge connections outside of the physical settings of campus ... weird. That's a function of the pandemic, though, and of opening a new

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  probably the complete opposite of me as a person. First, no, I wasn’t popular ... Podcast, and freak out over Brexit. The only grain of similarity I could get ... definitely not the whole picture. All of that said, the Big 5 test, unlike

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  introverted and very quirky stats professor. I remember the first day because he ... hit." The first law is true, the second is a construct of your ... -curricular accomplishments, whatever. One of those has to take the bus an hour and half each

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... , consensus building, and the value of communication.  The final project

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... , Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT and lead architect of the ... the massive stone vault overhead creates an effect of suspension and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  comments, and title. Thank you also to all the first east residents and alums ... was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an elected ... wholesome gingerbread house and person decorating event quickly went off the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  up: the Pacific Northwest and Bay Area, starting Sunday. I forced Ben ... himself an actual MIT class. As usual, Prof. Sadoway (former Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, by the way) played

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  (such as the authors of Hogwarts textbooks) and have an intense ... from the second book and movie, The Chamber of Secrets. After a series of ... up by the light of The Alchemist. Hacks are great, and I should pay

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  sure your full name and date of birth are included, as well as the word ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what ... your tracking page show Part 1 and Part 2 as complete because your Quest

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  you know. By “you”, I especially mean “employees and proprietors of the ... , whose field of research involves detection of gravitational waves and the ... tell). Moral of the story: Student groups like UWIP and SPS (Society of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  and make it past the first round of applications, you go through one or ... , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... research, and want to be part of the astronomy research community. What is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  . Flowers is the co-founder of the FIRST Robotics Competition and MIT ... the first Festival here. This post is the second of a series of three ... on the forefront of digital and project-based education. Technological

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... , and the occasional surprises of the semester seem alien and odd. For the ... that, the Frosh’s Scheme of Life has been crumbling and expanding

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  of their own. And when offered an opportunity to come out of the ... conditions to work and study in the United States. This reevaluation has been ... reaffirming our support for undocumented students and outlining the relevant MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when ... living abroad, and I the odds of getting accepted applying as an ... exactly with the last day of my final exams and I don't think Ican get a lot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005