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• Blog / Admissions

  If You Wish To Receive Your Decision Online… ...please read this entry!

  

  to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a ... .mit.edu and click on the "lost password" link. What if I don't have a MyMIT account? If you applied using our online application, you already have a My

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  email said, "DeAnne Smith is a queer comedian. If you haven’t heard of ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... s are full of excitement and hope. As a senior blogger, I’ve gotten

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... anywhere (e.g. "I'm not actually gonna get there tomorrow because something--a ... [/annotation]--will stop this trip from happening), so actually leaving and having a life

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  . On Sunday, I had plans with my friend to do a grand tour de Boston. We ... Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  /30/21 I saw this picture on a friend's story of a de-stressing event Mcc was ... were choppy, disjointed, or I simply did not like them. Of course, when a ... went. But for this term, it was kind of a blur. I couldn't really think

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... into a deep thought spiral. Then, sitting at the coffee counter, I start ... since you applicants are all over the world!). Waiting on a nice, sunny

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by ... at this hour a fly's footfall would be distinctly heard. As you walk down the Infinite, you begin to hear a distinct patter coming from

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research ... develop a docking port for little satellites on the International Space ... because some idiot forgot a semicolon). Anyways. I spent the last month

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

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  best a student-athlete could ever hope to receive. Guillen, a four ... well. "I feel this is a great opportunity and not just because of the ... a senior with 133 while also handling the punting duties. His longest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  monotonous routine of a 9 to 6 (or sometimes 8 to 7) work schedule, almost ... kisses on the right cheek when greeting and leaving a room and learned to ... ) and the traditional empanadas, stuffed with meat, egg, and a singular

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  lectures and one 4-hour lab a week. During the lectures, Professor Slocum ... Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and ... Engineering lab at Havana's Universidad de Villanueva and become the Department

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  dinner, we went to Luar de Uaicurapá – a nightclub-esque restaurant famous ... projects were possible thanks to the Nobre Academia De Robótica – a local ... a dozen speakers hidden around Kresge auditorium while the stage

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  thank god that makes my life a lot easier   1:35 pm: me, to google ... The Problem: A reviewer went "You guys did things while assuming that ... : these physicists have modeled some perfectly smooth aquaporins in a vacuum

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Today I am hijacking Laura's entry on tests, because a) it's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different from a similar concept called computer timesharing back in the 60's

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  your answers. 2.) Find Fun Google Chrome Extensions I have a ~lot~ of ... my planner to Google calendar-ing. Coffeelings is a mini journal that ... A few days ago, I scrolled through my camera roll to find an old

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually, I just find it to be a little bitter, which may make me a supertaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared ... it's sunny in my room right now. yeah, i use a standing desk ... 's a closer look at the bookshelf in the corner: my room was missing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  -as-utility: I can Uber my friend home, use Google Translate to have a real and ... Google Maps to a lost teenager. But a subtler flavor of kindness comes ... , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... loan originators, loan servicers, and financial aid offices. A proud father of two daughters, Daniel also has a budding career as: - poet

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025