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• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  , I started keeping a daily blog; a sort of space to vent about the past ... ="I watched physics presentations and travelled to a debate tournament ... -last year of college, and hopefully, by then, I'll have a little better idea

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I submit a maker portfolio?

  The Maker Portfolio is an opportunity for students to showcase their projects that require creative insight, technical skill, and a hands-on approach to learning by doing. Members of the MIT Engineering Advisory Board
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... human dimensions of memorial responses has given me a way to think, now ... the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... has a history dating back to the 15th century. The most traditional ... kilns, napping, chatting about economic theories (I was just a listener to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a ... : one, a professional grey to match my shirt, and the other a neon yellow

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  the day by which admitted students need to let colleges know their ... 've already said NO to MIT: Thank you for having applied; it was great getting ... decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  explore the field is to get a UROP in one of the many labs that do nanotech ... exposure to the field. I’ll try to give a brief overview of some nanotech ... for Global Health Practice,” (HST.939) we had a lecture by the world

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... environments. To be clear, this isn't a specific pairing or set of narratives we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first ... [annotation note="read: more willing to spend a little more for added comfort ... along the northeast coast. I’m listening to a playlist I made in 2016

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  three quizzes and was devastated to receive a 50. by the end, however, I ... college with employable credentials and get a job. to be very clear ... ’t committed to a program yet, not that I’m unsure about the Ph.D. I don’t know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  computer screen and having no breaks except a couple of trips to the bathroom. There had been more TAs for a while, but in 004 they tend to leave shortly ... single, and Double Mark, who lived in a double), showed up. We were getting

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  get a point across.) The essay is your chance to show that you're not a ... you get all A’s!!!” Everything I need to know, I haven’t learned from ... 't worry - you're not missing out): 0% of people who do not apply to MIT get

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  thought it might be nice to get a refresher and also there was free food ... dressing up fancy and getting to just have such a lovely time with all my ... just needed to take a CS class this year and I heard very good things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  [annotation note='this is a program run by CAPD which has, in the past, been ... -internship was only 25 hours a week, I found myself with a bunch of extra time to ... over a longer period of time. Instead, I tend to lean on a series of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time ... , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  This is a post by my good friend Claire, she's an insanely amazing ... research, from an organized beginning to a furious blur at the end. Step 1 ... Random to fall housing in McCormick (a sweat-driven Tuesday morning haul

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  . This experience has sparked my interest in getting a job related to International ... been a very good opportunity to learn how the economic theory can be ... by the OWC courses, I helped to adapt graduate-level econ subjects to

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  were rejected by my wife.) THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE ... Mid-summer frivolity, part three... THREE NAMES YOU GO BY: - Ben ... care about people - I'm a good dad THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... front of a panel of distinguished judges. To the victor go the spoils. And by spoils, they mean a 3-D printed rendering of Charles Darwin looking

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  , Technology, and Society (STS) Program. And by the way, if I had to choose a ... perspectives now that he's a "celebrity." It was pretty interesting to hear him ... that two teams are asked to design a product and the show documents the

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006