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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  actually stuck to my foot since it was damp out (seriously, you can't make this stuff up. Okay, maybe you can, but I'm not, I swear). To make ... your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  and loose, so I needed to hand-sew it tight. My laptop makes a cameo ... how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with 75 students in a basement beneath an aerial dance studio. We got to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  images into your posts to make them interesting. To be considered for a ... accustomed to keeping a blog make the transition to blogging for MITAdmissions ... if you feel you can make a compelling case for your inclusion among

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order ... hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a ... once I got to MIT, where women make up about half of the undergraduate

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  hundreds of unique solutions to the game that'll make a team think "man, I ... group of high schoolers have six weeks to create a five foot, 120 pound monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... ). I haven't figured out if I want to pursue a research career within ... comfortable. I was given a laptop, two monitors, and a bluetooth mouse to use

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  . I made the elite show choir as a junior -- the only girl to make it ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I ... reading and for being a great audience. This isn't to say that this is ... blog. I hope you have a great weekend. Best wishes to all of you.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  categories capable of making a meaningful distinction. We want to test whether ... to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major ...  made Python. (I swear, this will make sense in a few seconds.) Clearly, van

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on ... and would instead on myself and learning how to be a functional human being. A big part of this was learning how to cook and bake. I tried a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before ... where we had to lay out a detailed game plan for our final project. I had ... miss out on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in order to do more work. So

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  ... Whoever writes a comment that makes me laugh the hardest will get the scrap ... 've got to make me cackle. ... Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... , and second by the distance. We worked ourselves into a frenzy trying to ... judgmental about trivializing worries about what to make of your life, how to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group ... . Techiya's Fall 2010 Concert, "Once Upon a Techiya" It turned out to be a ... . Techiya, on the other hand, sings a variety of music, from slow liturgies to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  making a deposit). There won't be further news on the wait list until mid ... instructions, check to make sure it's not in your spam folder. Otherwise, send an ... If you were offered a place on our wait list in March, you should

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  , good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a post ... -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... year as a private diary to document my food adventures in college. While

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  description is “a playlist to make me cry” “im having a classical day” - i ... down memory lane and I hope to keep making a playlist for every year that ... EDIT: Petey mentioned in the comments that we should make a blogger

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  Calendar and instead choose to spend an hour every semester making a silly ... my time trying to figure out how to make simple figures, like a non ... ="the last day students can add a class to their schedule without a fee

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  Spaghettios to make them not worth eating on a Saturday afternoon in your ... side of life. Being both an old person and a young person, it stands to ... shop. But few simple things can make you feel so at home as walking up to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011