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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to ... , Darwin’s, where I am now, and work and have a cookie. Today I sat down to ... Morrison, listened to a new song, and looked over my last assignment for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  acceptances to not be revoked, or is it more of a 'play it by ear' situation ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... by MIT?" IB is generally equivalent to AP in terms of academic rigor

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the ... " - just allow me to say that I feel if you are a student at MIT, you should ... finding the relevant sections yourself. To take this as a sign of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  director of pedagogy in a school with no teachers, Lou’s job is to make new ... . Last week, I attended a fascinating xTalk by Lou Guenier ... to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking ... DNA. This situation means that a strain unable to grow on glycerol could ... isolate a haploid strain that can not grow on glycerol and want to know what

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  feel like I need to make sure I like chem before making a major of it ... 've come to recognize my podmates by their eyes and foreheads, despite having ... complain every time I have to walk to lab.) The dining hall serves a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me ... supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... . But, this semester, I actually had time to take a walk without a point B

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great ... about their own approach to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  your four-year-old cousin to study. (Seriously, Mom; isn't it a little ... to that first AP introductory meeting as a scrawny rolling-backpack-wielding sophomore. (That WAS a long time ago, wasn't it? You're free to imagine me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  would just be too long but I’ll try to make a start here. There isn’t any ... beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... individual, and as a citizen of your world. You don’t make up for one part of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  excited to spend my Monday nights making mugs with a great friend!! Cocktails 101 I'M GOING TO MAKE COCKTAILS! I'm so excited! This is a class ... Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round ... deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  , way to make an insulting, totally useless reply to the entire dorm ... study schedule to make sure that the portion of summer residents who watch ... sender's underwear color. It has become a tradition. By signing with your

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... ungainly Erector set. So intrigued was Ebert by the concept of a three ... divisible by two, due to the principle of bilateral symmetry to which nature

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  results make you feel sad or a bit hollow, but I choose to believe that this ... Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I ... . I applied to be a blogger for MITAdmissions two times before I was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  Bonfire lounge was watching Mean Girls. This seems to happen a lot lately ... . Cecilia C. ‘16 was browsing the Internet. Bianca H. ‘15 was making a pavlova ... machine for 6.01 next to a disassembled puzzle.      One floor down is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  off with the same things as Abby said: I've always wanted to make cool ... , then, to combat this is to force myself to make videos. The assignments ... first to create a portrait of a person or a place. Abby showscases this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  the other half thinks. It turned out to be a really interesting ... . After that I went to a session on Interviewing Techniques, which is useful ... his pictures are better. In the end, I learned enough to receive a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of ... in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011