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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  was awed and astounded by an elevator that connected the tunnel to the ... unsent drafts and attachments old and neglected enough to be hanging out in ... to myself 1.7 years ago during my first visit to MIT: Wednesday: I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  guys, if you get into MIT there's a high likelihood that you'll get to ... polite and everybody gets along alright. You may not be used to having to ... Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  to me by the minute. Fortunately, through my work on the committee, one ... I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised not to read until I had graduated. Having unearthed it from beneath the

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer on Wednesday or do things to distract yourself from your computer. I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to practice saying goodbye to Pass-No Record and start embracing real grades (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  quick post about that experience, written as I continue to deny the fact ... : Here we are at Gullfoss! From left to right: Ryan B. '18, Mitchell G. '18 ... ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  ;= 7)[/annotation], and of course, I'm going to be starting off by ... of this week, to be precise. Once January 29th comes and goes, I will no longer be a student blogger, and will have graduated to the nebulous

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... the Festival last year here. This year, I wanted to be more involved

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  mandrill" with a long cylindrical prong to get a perfect circle. Once that ... get a major-specific advisor (or two if you double major :0). I like that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  . Knowing that I needed to get in touch with someone named "Ricky" (I didn ... kid who's into science; most don't get the chance to spend time with ... bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of ... or responding to any e-mails or phone calls during this period; email ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  conversations, I’d forgotten to let myself feel anything. I was shocked by how ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... home. I’d come out to my parents. I’d failed my first MIT exam. Looking

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all ... . Going to him for one on one help really pulled me through 18.310. I feel ... was awesome because ZBT gets all the awesome local bands together and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important ... talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person ... Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  .  And the reward? Getting to work on and take some ownership of the ... impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty-six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman ... not by much. ... I thought that what was happening to us was ... those are terrible metrics by which to measure an applicant or an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  goodbye With one test, Adieu to five point oh I can study my heart out With ... ashamed Just one test sets my head inflamed Silent music starts to play One ... down I feel like I'm gonna drown To GPA yet to come Still out there yet

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  't belong here. The last thing you need is to get into a relationship and go ... dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... to upperclassmen as a warning not to mack on the frosh, Newton's Third

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018