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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  easy to be sold that story, especially at MIT—to be told that your job, your mission, is to solve the world's great challenges, and that nothing ... people in Silicon Valley keep trying to found new things rather than

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  by the shore, wash it, boil it for a while to get rid of anything it ... So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I don't even remember what sparked my interest in wanting to get one (it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  't always have time to get proper treatment and have to nurse it on my own ... that matter. By nature of the sport in the US, I get no funding ... and competitions, and exams to make-up when I'm back. I don't get any

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  counselor, your transcript may be submitted by your registrar’s office ... information on how to have your counselor submit your transcript. Please note ... official transcript to be submitted and processed, we will add it to your
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation ... . (Thanks Rena. Again.) Wrap a black T-shirt around your head according to ... , I really need more black clothing) Get your hands on a plastic knife

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  open to kids specifically. If you're visiting campus, stop by the ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in ... about 3 weeks ago) to get straight A's, but despised every minute of AP

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  't have to work too hard on this project; i just had to get a decent score ... pass and started rifling through my emails. i thought, should i go to ... , from 11 am to noon. the other class i usually went to on thursdays, 6

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... enabling new research in every discipline and new solutions to daunting ... distinctively, by adding new integrated curricula and degee programs in nearly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  towards Christians hoping to strengthen their faith by overcoming these ... Chaplain. This inspired a letter to the editor of the Tech by someone who ... out what they meant by that. He posed the following example: "If you're

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  stop wasting time on the internet and get back to writing my paper. I ... , about five miles away. To get there, you'd have to take the Red Line ... , because to be honest, I am puzzled by the distinctions between all the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  , March 14, at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... you need to reset your password, just go to apply

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  - scrambling to get one last bit of partial credit before your TA comes and yanks ... life was to properly fill out your name and your AP Java teacher's name ... your four-year-old cousin to study. (Seriously, Mom; isn't it a little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  , by MIT).                  On Monday and we had a new storm. Here ... Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes, falling sideways and sticking to everything. I wasn’t brave enough to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  repulsed by the smell of industrial fumes along the New Jersey Turnpike ... physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... . Please send the below text and attached pdf to each of your Senate contacts

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you're ... years ago I wanted to get into photography. Digital cameras at the time ... Facebook friend you. No takers. He's cool, but not pay-me-to-be-your

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  over to MIT Medical's Urgent Care. If you're too sick to get there ... of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... nauseous. I guess a long weekend is a somewhat good time to get hit with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  presidents aren’t just figureheads given arbitrary choices by administrators to ... at New House. I went to a panel about housing at MIT because my parents ... building, which MIT had planned to turn into a new dormitory. Starting from

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  college applications and thought to myself that I wasn't going to get in ... school) trying to get me to go there. I didn't get into MIT." (Phone is no ... for something. The years that I'd worked hard to get into college had

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  out that I need to get all four of them removed... And so on. Each ... one accomplish such a thing? By learning to see. All the exotic habitats ... instructions to "start scanning", which I took to mean "point your binoculars to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  standard 18-55mm lens. I wanted to get a new lens to be able to try out new ... , meaning that if a BNSF railway train needs to get by, that train will get ... stickers. I don't know what to put them on, but I'm hoping to get a new

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024