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• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i ... always and recently, i find myself trying and then failing to make sense of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  to Biology), MITx software registered 3,000 clicks in a given day on ... online learning, improving student performance, and bringing us closer to a ... Learning website here.  Fourteen years ago, MIT democratized secondary

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her ... couldn't find her; she'd disappeared to go eat lunch at a nearby Mc ... a good ten minutes, I decided to call home and get my mom to check for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  longest hallways, going to do? We're going to make a legitimate attempt at ... to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My ... . This entry is a shameless plug for an event that Keri inspired me to

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC, it's my pleasure to introduce a new guest-author blog that will help ... involved as well. What makes military service attractive to us? Some reasons

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these ... A: well i wanted to say, oh shoot, it's another person, act normal B ... "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  awesome it is to build a solar car from scratch, and how we should ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  . Also make certain you apply to a number of different schools. The chance ... got to see applicants admitted and then watch them become a part of our ... walking up the steps to Lobby 7 every morning. That was a habit that started

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6 ... 'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  yet.  So now I know I need to make a change. But how? How do I get out ... what wish I would make if I had a genie. What immediately came to mind ... failure.  No more! No more trying to be perfect! We’re making a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  , largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake ... college (MIT, clearly), your teachers have given up on trying to make you ... with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and ... backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  to do. We apply what we learn in a big design project... where we make ... childhood memories... and decided to make a yo-yo based on the 1996 movie ... Mastercam (a software to program the machines to make molds)... The LMP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  purpose of making a profit and getting drugs that will make it to patients ... a few computers; however, if I ever wanted to make a startup, the ... research if you ever want to become a PI, because if you don’t make high

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  thing to do when you open Illustrator is to make a new document. You can ... . Hold shift while drawing to make a perfect square using the rectangle ... an object to make a little square appear to the right of the "select

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  collaboratively, and thoughtfully, over a long period of time to make this happen ... about 19% of all college students. We want to make it easier to be a part ... even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  wrong with a photodump. Anyway, here's what I've been up to for some of ... green tram aaaaand nighttime colosseum   Glad to have a new ... A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  excited to wake up and make my way to work. The routine has it's own kind of charm to it. In addition to experiencing what it's like to be a "real adult" in the "real world", I've been able to spend a good amount of time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  we have enough information to make a decision. If we need further information or application materials to be able to make a decision, we will ... to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  . In other words, if we feel that a mid-year report is needed to make a ... application. We generally use them to confirm a decision (i.e. to make sure you ... selection, when it will be too late for them to make a difference

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006