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• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... " -- sort of makes me feel like a nice little stone in the giant edifice that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  tool to make their shield puzzle pieces and even a stained glass window ... selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many ... could eat. & Imagination, who loved to imagine he was a beaver. Or

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  forth with them and we'd make a game plan about how to approach a ... , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  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 ... , and it is. As a matter of philosophy, we have typically preferred to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  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 ... typically preferred to defer, rather than deny, a majority of our early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  music I'd tried to analyze a few years ago, and some of it makes a lot ... , but I'm also feeling reflective. I have a lot of wisdom to share ... this isn't a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  (paradoxically, we will do more to get a free T-shirt than we will for the amount ... -- it's apparently a common problem to remember sign motions but forget the corresponding meaning when you start learning. We had to scrap a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  , and some visits to firms like Eleven, THE MEME, and even a hardware accelerator called Bolt. They also get a chance to explore the city of Boston ... took deserve to be shared with the blogosphere! Discover Product Design

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  with. The traits that make you whole. Does that sound scary? To me it ... them, haven't you? Do the stats and titles make you want to be their ... and the places that made you yourself. MIT wants to create a team (proof

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to ... cheaply available. To build that speaker, Gedion used a soldering iron to ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear ... ,000 resident city-within-a-city, so we rarely had to leave. For my sophomore ... . Others wanted to go where most of their friends were going. I and a handful

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  printers to make a sorting station for wires, the power tools to… feel cool ... the path to successfully completing my first one. 2. A Balanced Diet: learn how to cook For someone living in a [annotation note

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  last year decided to make a huge project out of it for DTYD L. The end ... manages to make MIT an incredible place even when it feels like everything ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a ... school students can learn less than or equal to /almost/ anything. It's a ... 't recommend taking it as a program to pad your MIT application (something I get

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  ,[/annotation] which went fine; i did a little better than i expected to do. saturday ... . sunday night, i had enough energy to go to a holiday party our floor had ... the hallway leading to the mental health and counseling wing. there is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tunnel Adventures We didn't get lost, in case you were wondering.

  

  spontaneously take a trip to Harvard Square. We used the tunnels to make our way ... to an elaborate system of tunnels that wind under and in between the various buildings that make up the campus. There's been a long history of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  , now is a good time to be in touch, whether by email, phone, or whatever ... The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies ... government will sell shirts or hoodies with "MMX" or "MITMMX" on it (props to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  allow me to make all the mistakes that a beginner PCB designer would and ... another piece of acrylic to make a screw on stand. [carousel image1 ... organic, inspiring me to recreate this pattern as LEDs on a printed circuit

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  work. I applied to this UROP because I wanted to work in a Real Science ... " and "let's make a mousetrap car with cardboard and duct tape." Still, my ... become a surgeon. She stopped after I said I wanted to cut up rockets

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  mission to make the world a better place. We deferred 5,853 applicants ... it is final. I know this can be a difficult decision to receive. Take a ... applications. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016