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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  for the pun pagtanda "to get older" and pagtanda "remembrance". 11 ... "All my life has been about / Waiting for people to go" hits so hard. It ... Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), and it gets a dedicated post this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  for that class was to  "Make An Agent." For this project, you must make ... Last spring, I took CMS.614, Network Cultures, taught by Petey. It's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to ... Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is happening -- baggy metal shirts for long hours in shop, sleeveless shirts for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (nf) White is for Witching by ... MIT bookstore for free :D) (ridiculously good book by ridiculously good ... to take his class so bad) Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (I read

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what ... Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... process. When we say that the admit rate for students with a 750-800 was 15

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... stuff you need to go dig through all the blogs for it. The new site will ... more to tell, but I have to go play a show at the middle east. Look for

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  shower. Don't get me wrong. I stand by everything I've written publicly. I ... fortunate to get a D. In fact, I hadn’t been that happy about a grade since my ... elective for my major, was at 9:30am, and I couldn’t get out of bed on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  all our slides for our 10.28 oral presentation "by this evening." So, to ... . MIT pays for college cards, so basically anybody willing to brave the ... Stoots. Be sure to hire him for your next major concert. I try not to endorse

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  Of my car, driving so fast and so far  That it’s even bizarre to me ... think I’m crazy.   “I’ll get a UROP to have something to do.” But ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... Congress, now the US Representative for New Jersey’s 12th congressional ... science and engineering organizations, waiting for Rep. Holt to give a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  down to New Orleans for the summer. What are your summer plans, and how ... class 11.027, City to City, spent our week doing ground research for four ... for many years to come. I was part of the transportation group. Each day

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  perfunctory to energetic and adorably unabashed. But by some stroke of luck he ... have to relax,” she told him, not for the first time. Ted favored her an ... the clothes to wear for the day and the judgment calls his neighbor

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  scammers are getting more clever? It did seem too good to be true. This was ... hours and 57 minutes this time, so I have plenty of time to get to class ... College admissions bloggers get is “how far is the commute?” My answer to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen ... let you know. But hopefully I won't have to...because for the moment ... Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  Institute by working here. We have a lot of catching up to do and lots of new ... end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast ... position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  brilliant professor and forced to think in new, uncomfortable ways. If you ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program ... comfort zone and expose me to new ideas that I could use or discard as I saw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  there are new topics I've learned, and I'm very grateful for that. I took ... ), so it made sense for my teacher to present it this way ... model for how the d-orbitals of a metal interact with molecules bonded to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  spend birthday 21. Personally, senior fall has gone by too fast for me to ... having to check my phone for the time. So I'm getting an analog wristwatch ... to ride a bike for the first time in years. Maybe I can get some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end ... eye. What does it mean, then, for one object to appear "twice as bright ... magnitude corresponds to a change in brightness by a factor of ten. The reason

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . If anything, we are begged to ask for help more often. To quote one ... , too. This isn't to say that you should ask upperclassmen for help all ... advice will probably be more directly related to what you need to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011