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• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  goal for a student should not be trying to get into a specific college ... students to take advanced classes out of a sense of competition, rather than ... school or working 20-30 hours a week to support their family – or who come

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to ... dotted line! Troubleshooting: If you just get a solid line, you’re either

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  'll get to see a musical again, but Hadestown was so. good. Aaa. The Boston ... ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around ... -person graduation got canceled, 10 friends and I instead went on a road trip to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  activity happening all around you. There's seemingly a quintillion things to ... every year for a few years, I suppose it's supposed to signify the first ... paths because, let's face it, MIT is a broad and deep place to be immersed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... with me past a good night’s sleep. Hichki (which roughly translates to ... to make uncontrollable noises and movement. For a career as speech

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] My mother, like any other parent, likes to keep ... opportunities kept coming. I used to dread dancing the way a lobster dreads lemon ... juggle in our lounge in order to take a break from a grueling pset. What is

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  getting paid to sit in a place that generated so much joy. I love my UROP ... , getting an internship represents a lot more than just something to do over ... I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  passage of time I’ve had a better opportunity to get to know them. This year however I’ve reached the maximum time that I will have to ever get to know a ... comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  products come from, how products get from A to Z, and really the muddiness of ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  , and the bonus that I get to work with plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) as ... learning everything that they do. By comparing the genomic sequences to the metabolomic data (two huge data sets with a lot of unknowns), I can start to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some ... . It is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  . the foreword by ross gay was enough to dissolve me into tears. i did a ... have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a ... It's easy to get overwhelmed at MIT.  From the pressure cooker of ... your browser to be the first to sign up for a trip (2) your facebook

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my ... conferences. I had a thermo pset and an essay to work on the night I found out ... nearly everyone at AWP, I hadn’t been to a conference, writing-centric or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  majoring in CMS and looking to get a job in the gaming industry next year ... something, we get, "Hey wait, are you a girl?" (followed by half a dozen ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a generation of other undocumented engineers to strive for a greater goal. Now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  note="Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink ... . I really want to make a second part for this post if I get the chance. ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  purposes). That...gulp...rejection (yes, it was a very difficult word to say ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... applications and I'm thrilled to have had the chance to get know you through what

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3 ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when ... ," a fairly obvious nod to Hedwig et al from Harry Potter. A few years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  -related applications. All course 9 students have to take a probability and statistics ... geeks, and this is a class that plays to the strengths of computer geeks ... much computer clue as I'd like, and I'd like to get more. The technical

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007