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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  's walls. However, when I came to MIT, I felt overwhelmed by the ... inspired by the art here to pursue their passions and also find it exciting ... murals on campus, so I have been cherishing every opportunity I get to be

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab ... It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, around decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  as part of the department, which I like to keep close by because the ... failed by a good amount) to vaccinate 10k people (I was 3 thousand ... monumental events (ie, I don't go to New York to get a I heart NY sticker

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At four thirty in the afternoon, I needed to. News was not breaking so ... graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and ... allows you to get the rest of your life in order first. And, most ... applications, educations, and most importantly lives have been interrupted by a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures ... . Back in April, when I was still anxiously waiting to hear back from the ... pitching articles? Like some fancy writer in a Paris café, except in a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  velocity of an unlightened swallow? Getting attacked by a dino How to ... can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a ... getting to know Tokyo to a deeper level than I had ever before just ... 're having fun =p) Following the "tradition," I've decided to spend this IAP

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  now we finally get to see the parts in real life. If you haven’t seen an ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  , surrounded by soggy tourists. I don’t think I could get used to that forever ... science.  And honestly? My instincts were correct. I was able to get a pulse ... you get to know  Now I’m in a big city. I don’t go out into Boston as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  exceptionally relevant article by Turkle in Wired Magazine, and I encourage you to ... assignment asks us to examine ethical questions raised by, and in the context ... (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  admissions contact to another college by May 1st, there doesn't seem to be much ... colleges. If we sign the admissions contact to another college by May 1st ... enough to try to get there. " Minimum score on TOEFL is 233/577/90 (CBT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  myself and my circle. Relatedly, I want to get better at talking to those I ... to find a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) where I get ... morning (so I'm forced to get out of bed early) has helped, but I still have

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  been busy e-mailing MIT sophomores to get an insider's take how to adapt ... -around excellent student. "It took a lot of extra work to get to this point ... encourage students to continue their education by teaching before she focuses

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  . You’ve been lied to by the [annotation note="A shocking amount of the ... improvisation and getting our singing tone to match a sailors, and learned a ton ... wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... because I had no idea how to match colors. I ruined all my textbooks by ... me meant, ultimately, getting into MIT, leading to some unknown secure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  fantastical new thing someone, somewhere, at MIT has done. Then I get to learn ... without getting flustered, coming to grips with MIT's nerdvanic mutation of the english language, and generally trying to get over the shock that I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  , something you learn best by doing: indeed, to be civically responsible is to ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well ... to do research, focus on weather and forecasting, and get a PhD. Now ... needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022