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• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... the panel from the College Board disagreed. "He told me I was jumping to ... stunned by how complete the correlation was between length and score. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  's lounge trying to hold onto the comfort that I have grasped to ... like an old crow looks back on the time that has flown by. On my first ... I am being kicked from the nest without being able to fly. I sit on

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs ... that it was once not obvious that people would come to the blogs any ...  Instagram now. The account is curated primarily by my colleague Holly, who will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New York City. While walking around the downtown area, my roommate took me to ... its eco-friendliness. In addition to photovoltaic panels, the building

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... Engagements committee (SOLE) worked with LSC to set up the screening. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over ... to get down the basic facts - oversharing first base, if you will. You ... weirdly overcome with the impulse to overshare personal struggles into the

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  plants! I hate you! EDIT: I sent my personal statement to the professor ... thing." Feel free to imagine the dance around the room I just did ... I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... idea it was to get that close).   The world often gives us a gentle ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put ... sculptures from humble PVC tubing and endows them with the ability to harness

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  diverted my attention and ended up writing poetry! I used to do this all the ... did it. It felt nice to throw caution to the wind and just do it. After ... kitchen counters,  Hours inhabited by worn faces from the sun’s setting

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ... been at the finish line and he was unable to locate them. He had seen his ... hospital in the Boston area until we were able to find them at two separate

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle ... . To see The coming together of things.   Then Tuesday at 1pm I ... powerpoint presentation that the LHC isn't going to kill us all. So everybody

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  the familiar faces you have grown accustomed to? Most importantly, would ... aspirations when parents refused to let them leave the state, let alone the city ... I knew my way around. Why rock the boat? Needless to say, I have been

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  of the projects were interesting and enjoyable to work on   i ... theory classes at mit. it assumes the ability to read knowledge as well as ... on the last day of class they invite a local string quartet group to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  tired by the end of the day! But I am really happy though since I am doing all the things I love. I will also be back at MGH soon to volunteer so ... effort to update me on the project via Skype when I was in England and has

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  an addict. No matter how hard I try to fight it, I get this ... to mature. But no. It's gotten to the point where friends come up to me ... testament to how often I get too lazy to pick out a real outfit and just

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now, the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  [/annotation] pour in from the audience, followed by cries of "CLICHE!!" which leads to ... 't.[/annotation] However, what always seemed to piqued my interest was seeing what the ... everything I do. It’s kind of connected to the question that everyone seems to

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  events in past semesters have been tempered by the ongoing gloom of our ... help but be buoyed by the thought of meeting (or at least seeing) new people in the hallways. It will be hard for us to recover after such a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6 ... like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... taking up more land area by the way, if you’re curious what the single

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022