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• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  had on their website, everyone was mesmerized by it’s ornateness and ... bathroom on our floor (*classy*). I remember seeing the sophomores last year ... all of them. I remember all the discussions we had on Wednesdays and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  , which, despite the excitement and adventures, has wrought havoc on my ... , and NASA. I wasn’t originally planning on externing (if MIT has taught ... class on campus I wanted to take over IAP, but while browsing the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  Simmons hall. I’ve even seen some painted as murals on dorm hallways. But ... small furry critter) in one place?” “If all digital data were stored on ... catastrophe. The idea started on whatif.xkcd.com, but gained so much

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  're considering MIT (if not, you might be on the wrong website), here's my advice ... started to understand MIT as an institute built on cooperative, immersive ... gatherings. Snapshot: Last night, on the inaugural evening of Spring Break, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  notes you're taking. All it takes is a tap on a word you've written to ... laptops for MIT I was dead set on getting a tablet. I researched tablets ... enough, but I still mourned the loss of being able to take notes on a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  a thick layer of college-related paperwork on top of that unholy ... any topic*. Take poverty, for instance- a perfunctory search on the Tech website yields a transcript of Muhammad Yunus' insightful and conscientious

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street ... a certain group on thefacebook. And then I realized that thefacebook ... 't usually work on weekday afternoons: packages come in! And then you have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  case/project work featured on our website each week. We hope you enjoy it ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what ... other MIT students who are working as externs on Wall Street, and we had

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  Infinite Magazine website[/caption] [Kidist] The general process of the club ... community-oriented role on the board. [Kidist] Put simply, I joined Infinite ... , and have final vote on all creative and logistical questions. The

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  referenced the host website). Now, the deadline seems to have passed on the ... requirments or restrictions on those classes? On average how many classes do ... to Boston on Wednesday. What do you reccommend I do in that free time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  International Student Office website). You can read more about it on this ISO page ... , but still, I was dead set on the major. Around then, I also heard ... coded websites and Discord bots for fun and would include C++ when asked

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.   I continue to ... on the forefront of digital and project-based education. Technological ... this exploration, WMBR is now working on more. Educational Studies

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are ... and bond with fellow classmates. There’s also an emphasis on making and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  Update on 6/26/2018: in the years since this post has been written ... students be? According to Minerva's website, their admissions process will rely "strictly on the world's most demanding intellectual standards

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  photographs appear annually on MIT students’ social media websites around the ... most common caption to these photographs is some variation on “MIT finally put a ring on it,” or “Engaged to the institute!” While this quip is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of ... audiences. For astronomy graduate students, this website has a pretty ... example, you want to discuss the broader impacts of your work on society and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  pursue the arts any further. Sure, the admissions website has a whole spiel ... . (I'm splurging on the pictures and video, since my last two posts had ... perform on a particular week, you can drop by at the beginning of that week

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center. So I am following Mollie’s lead and posting an update on my life after ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... happened to come across the Nature paper on a friend’s desk. He decided to ... immune system, and tested these nifty band-aids on pig intestine in the lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  with an emphasis on social scientific approaches. This is your ... either be leaning on data from prior scholarship or, alternatively, some ... on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021