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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  . Not that you are somehow required to be involved with clubs and ... me to not be involved with much of anything, so I set out to fix that ... E. '16. Dan and I went to high school together, and now live in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  perfectionism by now. MIT has forced me to become much more comfortable with ... happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ."]PhD[/annotation] programs.  Well, I don’t really have to make a decision until if I get in, but choosing to apply is to make that decision a possibility.  It ... voice, stories, and dreams are going to be perceived by the committee of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... product we launch today has an unlimited capacity to augment reality to make ... while making this post and it's making me type sad things, so I'm going to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  can be solved by doing a quick glance at it and writing down the answer ... By now, three full days have passed into my second semester here. The ... weight of 4 Psets are setting in. All that being said, I am glad to be back

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  !Helping Students with Asperger's and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Go To College ... : The Good, the Bad, and the Oh-So-Stale I am drawn to sessions with ... is very concerned about the stress placed on students and families by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  going to be as completely unique as you, so make the most of it. I mean ... By Shannon Elizabeth Moran '12 You know that feeling when you wake up ... down your bags and sigh because it feels so good to be home? Yeah. That

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  somehow manages to be adorable and make a 1.5 hour 9:30 am class interesting ... this semester - we talk about prosthetics and implants, how to make 'em, why so many of them right now are crappy, and how to make better ones

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  opportunity to make similar memories for yourselves. The first word of the MIT ... , simply meet all the students who make MIT such an amazing place to learn ... accepted to MIT, I still clearly remember the day I received my decision. The

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  that was recommended to me by another American teacher I met on the plane ... can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes ... walked through the front entrance of the Shoqan School and was serenaded by

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  present all of our really cool research to the big industry sponsors funding us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to this by bribing us with things we would otherwise not be able to afford

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  coaches if I wanted to continue my skating career. I would have to make new ... happened very quickly. I first heard about the program during the summer from an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  that Wichita was dead-set on making sure flight was as difficult as possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... ’t forgotten me, but here’s a quick review: I majored in physics and graduated in ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  seriously and hurried over to get pictures before things were taken down ... types like to remain anonymous. Mostly because they're usually doing something illegal, and also because it's part of the Hacker Code of Ethics to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  . the foreword by ross gay was enough to dissolve me into tears. i did a ... maybe I have come to understand, to believe, how we witness makes our world. This is why attending to what we love, what we are astonished by

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  monsters in our closet ready to jump out at us. If you’re feeling like ... other doors than just the one on pi day you are waiting to open.   If you end up feeling limited by your circumstances, get creative

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  about their own approach to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one ... forthcoming cycle. There's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value

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

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling ... to fly by for no reason at all - but I also know people that run like a ... I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and ... tends to make their own I3 video; this year, not every community has a ... Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019