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• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  woke up this morning, layered on two sweaters and a jacket, and went ... from california, recorded a video message to kick off the morning. she ... policing and criminal risk assessment. there's a critical need for ethics and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  Once upon a late October, MIT hosted its annual Family Weekend ... hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke ... of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do you remember specifically (or can you imagine) admitting anyone... (a) with a 3.5 gpa (including several B's in math/science), (b) without

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  , about standardized test requirements or statistics. If you have a question ... more than happy to help. A few FAQs: The deadline is November 1 ... showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East ... the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a ... an entirely new continent (whoop, whoop there more to go). There’s a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  As I've said many a time, but will say again for new readers, I live ... across the hall. Sara '12 is also a resident of Conner 2. You may remember ... taunting and the teasing came to a head. Sara misspoke one day, and Yuki

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  at MIT. I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The ... the heck out! But I'm sure if anyone is learning a lot from robots, it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Room with a Vieux A comparison of sorts

  

  Note: I freely admit I am stealing the title "A Room with a Vieux" from a lovely antiques store in Boston So here is my workspace (and my ... ." I think honking is a sacred activity and this sort of socially

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  Kevin Rustagi '11 is a designer, entrepreneur, and musician whom I ... a recent alum, I’d like to explore that a little further – and ... my CPW as an admitted pre-frosh, and I had a conversation with myself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  questions as I can. It's a long entry! Before we get to that, though, I have ... essay has to be something to do with engineering or could I send in a project I have worked on in my graphic design classes, such as a poster

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A short entry about dorm awesomeness

  

  You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them. A lot of people who use iTunes. What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries! So many

  • by Snively '11
  • November 18, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that ... , according to my Writing Advisor, “thus” is a very math major word ... components (including a variety of different posts on writing essays and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  , as a way to remember all of the things that had happened. Brain dumping ... thoughts it was to a narrative, trying to tell the story of what it was like ... sitting at over 8000 words so. much more than 3 pages."]onto a page (or two

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics

  

  hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  that I’ve been thinking about writing for a while. I listened to Silvana Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a ... : Audience: There were points in my recovery where a post like this could have

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms see Gloria's post

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/joint-post-a-guide-to-dorm-gyms/

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT's Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011