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• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  even learned to sow at the Metropolis Makerspace and made a reversible ... a wooden pull toy. I am learning how to be a leader through dorm ... degree to be (6-2? 6-1? 2A-6? 6-3?). To be transparent, this approach has

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  -dump-way-too-comprehensive-distinctly-personal version of a “How to put on a thousand-person hackathon in six months” guide ... exhausted enough to sleep on a bunch of cardboard boxes as my bed. This year ... hackathons from around the world, and do everything else necessary to run a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their interview. We will always finish with an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  up. But The Land of MIT is a new planet altogether. And here's a quick ... 't have time to breathe." Night only falls for 4-8 hours a day, depending on ... traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  a senior, I thought I had learned my lesson, and so I worked on Sunday ... , somehow, I spent all of Tuesday night trying to write a chemistry lab report ... around the country. The conference schedule is posted on their website and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... want to help a new generation of students to get in. When you email, use ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  zones away, I had to throw myself out of bed by 6:45 am. But on the plus side, I got to kick back on a couch sipping on an ice tea while browsing ... up when you have to consistently give a speech at every Commencement

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  wingspans as a sort of sail, and angling the feathers on each wing's end to ... , but my source is my professor telling me and like a quick google search ... !] ... This blog is a long time coming. I initially anticipated making this on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  ability to steal, build, and market any of these toys on a whim. Guess what ... , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I ... I wore my tennis shoes and a baseball hat for the trip. We hopped on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  to be up there, on THAT VERY STAGE, doing standup with a hand puppet ... say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11-page story, two midterms and starting a new UROP hasn't left a whole lot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... broke down a couple times and ended up talking with my parents on the ... drop date forced me to really reflect on my life. Today, I finally made

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  great place to work and be a student. 1. MIT is very diverse -with no ... means we get to consider changes and additions to questions we include on ... in including these as well. I echo the sentiments of a commenter on the

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  the line, and you learn quickly to take it in stride, get back on and ... enthusiasm stays with you forever. To dance, you must find a balance within ... access to a level). Which brings us back to balance. "I know you are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  through the eyes of my daughter, who was on a FIRST Lego League (FLL) team ... the FIRST robotics competition. There are two elements to the program: a ... solution to a real world problem. Each year there is a theme to the robot

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note ... that you cannot respond to emails in your inbox when I know for a fact ... a student didn't respond to an authority/higher-up we would be ruined

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  the admissions blogs have always been a platform for students to speak ... dorms. this data was used to justify two decisions: first, to prohibit new freshmen from living in senior house; and second, to institute a "turnaround

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  scoped a few of us on LinkedIn and sent us a Discord invite, and then one of the intern coordinators sent the invite to everyone else. On the ... the option to pick the Menlo Park or New York offices, and I chose Menlo

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and ... inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... ; A spring in Warwara, Kaffa, where residents walk to collect drinking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  and Katherine cut out a headboard to mount the stag head on. I start ... How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized ... engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017