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• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  first and the second, I stopped by MIT Medical, where I was referred to a ... Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by ... , scrubbed diligently, transferred to the rinse bucket, then pegged to a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  stand on the sidelines - I want to make a difference. To this end, I ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... to track, and a racing car seat and harness attach rider to car ... EC to BC someone whizzes past on a three-wheeled electric skateboard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go through to graduate high school. It’s also a book that has left me with a ... common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  full of ambition and looking to make a name for yourself in the world ... I initially wrote this to my little brother. I debated for a while ... hope someone might be able to connect or learn something from a few of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  . :) By the way, according to Cox News, Dr Jackie Ying, who became a full ... , room temp. 10:30 AM. I start making LB agar, a kind of salty Jello for ... to my subcloning. I add some of the DNA mix to a tube of bacteria, heat

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  . I now realize that I am probably going to go a lame local college and ... me feel like I should take the time to produce a good response! I wanted to start by writing out standard admissions advice (e.g. no one

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Day. The Pretender is a song about making a resolve to go out there and ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a Student program, where I would follow around a student for a day to get a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• 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 ... pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I ... and ready to vectorize it. By the time I slid open the door and was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to ... because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  wanted to talk about was finding a community where I was surrounded by ... to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... cites an example that equates choosing a class to putting together a group ... . So I will try a few different examples. If one is going to select a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  the top of a building. We’re surrounded by the city, but isolated from ... just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... upperclassman approached me and asked if I wanted some of a smoothie he was making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  makes a lot of sense because it's far easier to code something interesting ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... and Fravic. Carlos: WTF?) So, back to hackathons. A lot of relatively

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  development--a road makes it easier to transport materials, which in turn makes ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... that make dirt dirty (bacteria, bugs, decaying debris) are in a thin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a ... basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the ... consists of us whining to each other, making funny faces people can't see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend looking at a computer, I'd be spending even more trying to read tiny essays ... a page and seeing cold numbers on a screen to getting attached to you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  spend your whole life doing what you love, but you also get to make a lot ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to ... . Firehose itself became a single word referring to the academic experience

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020