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• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  deluding yourself. So please stop harassing Matt; you’re not going to get the ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... took until November for us to start hanging out after class. By the time ... by everyone else too. Every day on campus I smile and wave to a dozen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  like idiots at Beast's persistent attempts to break the codebase by ... something useful to your profile in the near future, I experimented with an ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ideas, which were then converted to kits and assembled by students in an ... ” to pitch their ideas. As ideas get cut and refined, so too do the ... shape. It’s 1 hour until instructors will be coming by to examine

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  amazing Alumni Directory (https://alum.mit.edu/as/index.html) to get in ... across your information are so low! What you have to do is browse the NIH website or talk to friends and neighbors to find the name of specific

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  putting on events where your friends meet each other/grow the cohesion to ... within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I ... astounded by all these people with whom I had a lot of shared technical

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  called "Gangnam Style" was released over the summer by K-pop rapper PSY ... came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  to get by with just the knife and the tweezers, but when I went to cut ... to kill, and being one of the most annoying household pests to get rid ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  over to stay with us, we decided to give them a warm welcome by trying to ... and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was ... to hall, but Winnie was right. It took an hour to get everyone packed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  and graduate students to try to get some sense of the whole process and ... to get a positive response. Each time, I have to bite my tongue to stop ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  Italy (which means I had a hard time getting myself to go every day) but ... wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... Shasta. My sister’s Bolivian mother-in-law taught me how to make batido

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  full schedule during soccer season actually helps her to get more work ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts ... intramural pistol team and came to appreciate the huge variety of sporting

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  ; That evening: At half past eleven several autos drove up to the new ... Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... ! i didn't really think senioritis this semester would turn out to be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015