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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  office for the long trek back to Simmons Hall. I walked and talked with ... [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  ). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was ... afford the people who go for it great opportunities to jump-start the ... place else, both new. For those of you who are adventurous, its definitely

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  : for a fresh perspective, for a new angle, for a different mental dexterity, for getting out of a rut. I have a new confidence and a better ... inspiring and horrifying to hear my characters brought to life by my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with ... ’s a notion that as language models get larger they appear to suddenly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its ... ) are able to take some of the wood and reuse it for their own ends. When ... , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little ... ="all that introspecting when writing college essays has to count for something ... remember thinking that I'm just waiting for college to be able to reinvent

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  well share my advice here for those who won’t get to hear it in the ... also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf ... vehicles for traversing Hyrule to full-on attack drones that mow down hordes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  recount what happened yesterday again.  I had actually moved to New York City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was ... , it felt great to just take all the time in the world to get out of bed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... A quick shout out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I am attending

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend coming ... other new MIT admits I want to let you know about some exciting ... -dish pizza in Chicago while listening to a special performance by the MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  chance that I'll go to grad school, but it certainly won't be for physics ... intuition for a new topic. I love taking physics classes enough that I can see ... for Intelligence, which focuses on applying machine learning to various

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic ... have chosen to only have one admissions round for international students ... are for internationals, we want to give out these limited spaces at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  't be afraid to take a nap (they'll become your new favorite pastime). If ... yourself either! By this I mean, make time for yourself. Whether it's an hour ... behind. But the important thing to remember is don't be afraid to ask for

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For this entry do you mind if we don't discuss applications? I need to switch ... It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  learning that students are offered, it can get tiring to constantly shove new ... portfolio enough by the end of this year to get a research job in industry ... learning new things. But I've never been the type of person to, say, read a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  win all sorts of stuff and get to help record a new song for SongsToWearPantsTo ... , but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for ... to figure out what to do about that but for now I have broken metal

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  for artists to hearken back to an imagined “simpler place and time,” as ... along the trip to visit friends or see the sights, typically in New York ... all time was a 2-week trip from Boston to Chicago to New Orleans to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... weather for New England weather, and leaving behind a great experience ... to Spain for giving me: the warm weather I missed so much in Boston

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008