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• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a ... 't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young ... decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  temperature right on the third try. [caption id="attachment_46020" align="aligncenter" width="487"] Cinnamon rolls[/caption] A few days later, I travelled halfway around the world to start my internship, and was housed at a really

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  representing a real 3D space on paper… practiced drawing a section plan with a little person inside, as to imagine a body inhabiting a space... and ... -front space and a single wall, as shown above, and essentially have to design an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  a short sprint away. Twenty minutes before 8 AM, I wake up to the ... AM, would be a horrifying thought. But on this particular day, I feel ... conveniently close to a lot of things, something I grow more and more thankful of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  treating New Year's Eve as a reason to make a charcuterie board and talk to ... 're on the floor Time to go" [annotation note="It might be a little too ... even year-to-year, but instead every four years. That a year ago will

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... Lucas came over to check on me, which was very nice, and a bunch of French ... !") and I proceeded to walk up two and a half flights of stairs, thinking (I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  resolution to go to a new bar and meet people every Wednesday evening, which we ... mentioned? One of the stops on that trip was to a conference in Venice to ... new life to begin.  ~~~ I am now a 2nd year PhD student. There have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  is given a certain amount of money to spend on whatever the floor wants ... bridge to Boston. Also, like many dorms on dorm row, you can get a great ... , in the sense that you get to meet a lot of new people every year. Up to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that ... We've just launched a new MITAdmissions video. It's called "MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  , where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this ... 's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... better and this was a great way to begin doing so. So that was Monday ... ordinary. Had a great time with Joe; hope to see him again next year

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on ... with Quizlet flashcards on a whim. Perhaps one of my more useless whims), retaining the grammatical flow of a new language is something that has been

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  and listening to all the songs on repeat This was a masterpiece. The ... qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... absolutely painful to write.  Okay, let’s backtrack a bit. We aren’t writing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  to write a humanities paper on fMRI usage in popular media ... tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... , right? Perhaps it was the universe trying to teach me a lesson about

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  to any student on campus and ask for help, and there’s a good chance ... playlists. You know, vibes and all that. A year ago we expanded on the idea ... asked them to animate and score a Pi Day video…even though they had almost

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  Hillel after this incident. In short, I was invited to a "Jew-au on Ice" in ... supposed to vote on slogans advertising a party thrown by Hillel, but I do ... The Princess Bride, which I've made reference to about a dozen times on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  .I.T. students and faculty, and “fact-based analysis,” including a trip to Saudi ... world, including in India and China, working together to build a plug ... goal, they explain on their Web site — vds.mit.edu — is “to identify the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... a good head on her shoulders. She's had a picture-perfect time at UCSC ... to a boston day in the spring, one of those rare ones with the power to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  a message if you're going to be there!) to cheer on Team 97 ... ridiculous estimations. For example, on a recent pset we were asked to ... dangerous. Inviting anyone literate enoug to read a sticker on your shirt to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  . Recently, I've decided to take on a second major (in Comparative Media ... didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019