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• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  time, and now actually gets taken seriously. And for good reason too ... entry. By clicking this link, you may choose to publish the article to the ... across otherwise. You get to be the dude or dudette who provides the hook

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U.S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... happened before and there was no obvious way to fix it. I went for a consult ... with its absence, which is by choice and the product of me trying to do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  multiplies the list of ingredients by whatever fraction necessary to feed the ... . This fall, I'm preparing to teach two classes for ESP's big Splash event ... "Introduction to Pulsars". Basically: classes inspired by my summer research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ; Then, it was off to a Chinese food truck for some lunch, back to another class (6.004—Computation Structures), and to Kresge for an info session ... (guided by the awesome sidewalk chalk designs) for some liquid nitrogen ice

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  (History and Computer Science).  For this major, I have to take 7 classes in ... auditioning, and get interviewed.  If you are selected to be on Jeopardy!, you ... for the shuttle to the studio. When everyone got to the studio, Maggie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... that could guide me - only an emptiness that needed to be filled by ... looking forward to this trip for years, I spent the day mentally managing my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  . The restaurant is quite small, and so we get our orders to-go and eat in ... . We swing by H-Mart along the way; Derek buys some snacks, and I get a ... by the Boston Public Library's Chinatown branch just to explore the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  propitious time for that old data to be put to use. I present Beaver Scope ... I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different ... . This isn't to say I won't tell you if you ask, but I'll avoid typing it

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  something to be said for being able to get from Mass Ave to Kendall Square ... Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... … I did snag a hot dog at Theta Delt (thank you for your kindness to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Comics for IAP Doonesbury takes on the 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition.

  

  Competition (not to mention Palmistry, Advanced Sudoku, a chocolate workshop ... , or Photoshop, enter Peggy's Chinese New Year contest!)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  's something you've never tried before. It’s an amazing time to get a head start ... )   Expose yourself to new ideas, places and things. I don’t know how well I can help you with number one, but I have a place to start for number two

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  optimization problems by Sunday.”[annotation note="to be fair, we do also read ... , who I also had for [annotation note="Intro to Public Policy"]17 ... new, cool sensor applications. I’m vaguely intrigued by doing a sensor

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers. Here they are - we're super excited to have them on the team! Say ... traveling to destinations across the globe for training and competitions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  in Maryland for about two weeks now, all by myself, working this NASA ... ago. It's awesome. Nevertheless, you do get a little bored living by yourself, so I decided to try out something new tonight while making dinner

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  would be taken by MIT for credit), you will get 12 units for 18 ... different conferences we had: BarMUN (a new BU conference for collegiate ... chance to staff BosMUN. Chairing aside, positions were primarily needed for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was ... papers I read every now and then.  I went back to the food tables to get ... for the following realization to hit.  WAIT THAT IS ACTUALLY THE

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  or major Y declines, are you likely to look for another student like ... another college to attend by May 1. What should I do about the May 1 reply ... aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  It is a New Year now and I hope it is good for you. Ten years ago this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  . Somewhat anticipating Spain was going to get canceled before it actually did, I applied to two different UROPs for this IAP and spring: A Marvel ... This IAP, I was originally supposed to take an MIT class called

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022