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• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I ... best served by completing only the standard MIT application. Others feel

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  language eroded some more, so that by the time you get to, say, Spanish ... . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off ... awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  getting onto the ship. This is when Jared '10 and Yuki '11 thought it would be a great idea to swap jackets. While the black jacket with blue ... and putt-putt-putted away from the dock. A bunch of us went to the upper

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  Thanksgiving, and waiting for the weekend, and waiting for spring to come so that my team can get back on the water again, and waiting to see if my ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  . We went to PetCo by the CambridgeSide Galleria. (The Galleria is the ... night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them ... what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  ; Mark Zuckerberg himself invited conservatives to meet with the Facebook ... back from the first meeting Facebook held to discuss the issue with ... place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality." John

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the ... how to improve the litter removal process from highways. After a ton of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  now it's time to start getting ready for the class of 2013. I've created ... a giant party that you get to be the guest of honor at. Soak it in ... almost died for the three weeks leading up to decisions. March 15th was

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  often get some interesting notices over the list, and thought I'd share ... financial engineering. "Our overall goal at Sloan is to spur innovation by ... industry to develop and test the new financial techniques and technologies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  American History, colonists at Charleston did better by stealing the tea and ... think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  there's more to the institute than numbers. The goal of this project is to present MIT to the world under new light, exposing its ... kickstarter will be successful or not. But to some degree that's beside the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  . I could write about my IAP UROP. Or the Infinite Magazine. Or getting ... concepts I learned. The things I made. I just haven't. Instead, I want to use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  ."]S^3[/annotation] to get the support I really, desperately need right now ... activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... friend, and then a neighbor, and then another neighbor, and by the end of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  by how immediate it was—crossing the threshold, I mean, of the door to ... struck like a guitar string by your voice. To feel sorry when I say the ... . Actually it was wonderful to see how many things had stayed the same, little

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  ’d asked to help us get the event started had had different ideas. We ended ... foot land awkwardly on the ground and fell. My friends helped me get to a ... pretty much the same: after all, flowers were finally starting to bloom en

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  connects to a rubber septum, which allows us to get samples by sticking a ... cluster by the door; one is clamped to the table beside the gas ... “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  mail day of the early action season, so I encourage you to get your ... outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... . Track the status of your application at my.mit.edu. Students like to call

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  to me like being parented by upperclassmen. The freshmen here don’t get ... I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the ... high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... interested to read about the way that exercise changes our metabolic makeup. As ... working together to solve the most critical problems in biomedicine. ">

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  case you want to pop by with a muffin and say hi. Don't forget the muffin ... pset this year took me about 3 hours to do while the longer ones have ... little sweep, back to front of the lecture hall, and confused some kids

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006