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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , adapted to, put neatly in its new spot in the revised status quo. Bad change ... to the idea of carpe diem, seize the day, chase your dreams, and other ... you’ve always wanted to try, to experiment with your likes, dislikes

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  making and trying new things. Instead of being scared to ask for help, I ... DesignPlus also gets you tap access to the MAD fabrication shop overall (on ... cool project in-progress, or learn a new skill, and I’ve come to treat

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  listening to your body and respecting your boundaries. About brief ... the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, but all of our monologues are written by current or past MIT students, about experiences we’ve lived

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  reply to those people is, do your parents, or the other adults you know ... , one of our new freshmen was moving into her room, which happened to be a ... to freshmen by people who were little kids, if that, when the events

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  thing that defines your high school career. Get out and try new things ... should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Google Maps for an hour or so. Met up with Lorelle and headed to the BSU ... Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  , it'll get you where you need to go, but sometimes it breaks. If it ... day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure ... ' toys, are then sent to packaging so that they have a solid model to mold

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  to smooth surfaces by taking advantage of intermolecular forces, which ... wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  , you had to get in line early for ring sales to get a subsidy. Therefore, Cara L. and I woke up at 6:30 am on a Saturday to get in line for 10 am ... best way to get this message across." I'll update if there is more news

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  .05: Introduction to Probability and Statistics 21W.035: Science Writing and New ... bargaining didn't get me very far, and it became pretty clear I'd have to make ... have more time for myself and new hobbies All of this circled back to an

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  , you might need to learn new content on your own. No matter what, you ... classes do not contribute to your GPA. Freshman spring you will start ... your first semester to be easily fixable with these versions. These

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new ... assignment. Instead, it was meant to show us how linguists document new ... .010) This assignment was by far the most fun. I had to make a poster about the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  , and originality. Open to everyone, do it by yourself, do it with others ... By this time I'm sure most of you are finally enjoying summer. (Let's have a contest, who got out the latest for summer vacation? post your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... even put them on the MIT Class of 2012 website SO if you wanted to put a ... - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... 's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  hours early to get ready, try out the acoustics in our new digs, and get ... desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on ... -raising ability (read: badassness) to get more people to come to the show. One of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  couple of days, and it's time to take a break. As you wrap up your ... taking the time to enjoy your last semester in high school. I don't know ... the time in the last months of your high school life to appreciate the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  Admissions staff with new and exciting things in your life. How to send us ... pigeons.You should send your faxes to 617-687-9184. As always, if you have ... . And what we don't want people to think is that they get any sort of edge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize ... 's already broken - what's important is getting to the root of the problem in ... During your first day at MIT, after you check in for Orientation

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008