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• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  sacrifice meaning for a word limit, so they went over -- some by 5 words, some by 105 words. Unfortunately, there's no "real" answer to this question ... application has been posted. You can request a paper copy, download a PDF, or

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  science, and mathematics majors united by a love of cocoa - and close to 500 ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... the surface or "bloom," causing it to take on a whitish sheen or oily

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... it ended in a Red Robin in Central PA rather than Rice to Riches, New ... for no other reason, because I got to have a 13-word conversation with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a course over IAP. I also look forward to a fresh start, a new semester free ... considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I ... before going out to dinner. Running is a great sport, but no one ever chose ... ’ve had a lot of chances to practice!). We are at Ben ‘12’s house for dinner

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  planning to post a quick blog entry; I recently saw this amazing TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talk by MIT Professor Pattie Maes about a ... working hard to prepare and plan for the weekend. If you're planning on

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend ... ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  current residents to keep pushing forward and doing great things. I found a ... my friends and I sat in our lounge for hours listening to a '71 alum go ... created by students just like us. It was incredible speaking to alumni

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a ... never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour ... to do during the academic year since i didn't have a bike! bike's are

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... one. Once, I also took a study break from studying biology by studying ... floors pretending to be zombies. I also draft a plan to steal back my floor

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  is an openness here, a freedom to learn, to try new things, get trained ... sounds fun. Most people only get to take one.   I read the blogs my ... makerspace I just got access to, IDC, where there’s an embroidery machine and a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  energy it took to do all these things was always quite a bit. It didn ... times. Perhaps a habit I should try to tweak a bit. I was pushing myself ... November, I particularly struggled to find motivation. It's odd; a break from

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  you...I should probably get back to work. My last calc midterm of the ... am sufficiently focused enough to get work done. Wish me luck with ... From today's edition of the Tech: Caltech Students Pull Part of a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... got to play the role of Miley Cyrus this weekend, on a wrecking ball ... infiltrated by the enemy! Caltech students appeared on campus in a crowd - and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  from ideal, and the ride was a bit shaky. The cadet next to me vomited up ... and my buddy. We were then searched and told to wait in a nice warm bus ... cadets were resurrected and we were ordered to launch a counter-attack. We

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  hosting this AMA — click on any of our names to get a quick overview! Andi ... T camPUS & Random Hall dorm culture How to get 8 hours of sleep a night ... were newly admitted to MIT get to visit the campus and experience student

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  can agree to because we're all human. In a world divided along many lines, it's refreshing for others to embrace and impart a message that is ... Young also performed a number of songs to start the event. James Taylor

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  -CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... IAP. For context, CycleGAN is a conditional image-to-image translation ... create a dataset to train blogger avatar generation models, I wrote a

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

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... , always following the same pattern - a glimpse of immortality followed by a ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to ... to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap ... enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009