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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a ... the arts here*. For the artsy admits, who are questioning if/how they

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Goofy Challenge at Walt Disney World.  For those unaquainted, the Disney ... order to register for the Dopey Challenge you have to prove that you're even remotely qualified, which means submitting a "proof of time" for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to climb Mt. Fuji for the past few months, maybe because I don't know when I ... the way up, but not for a particular reason any more palpable than the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ... ------------------------------------- ola wrote, "I was wondering whether the 'creation' for the optional ... design for a spring musical along with a designer's statement? Or should I ... our faculty have specificallly asked for hard copy submissions, and not

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

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  , though, we're all looking for a good match, and since each of these schools ... ask, but who do I contact/email about services for kids with LD?" This ... guys usually shoot for a 1:1 gender ratio. Do you have any stats on this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  such opportunities are available), (c) who has been suspended (for a ... for math/science?" You're welcome to submit supplemental recs ... grounds for a second look at the application (or even termination) if the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  whereas the second half would be more for having fun. small personal blogs ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself ... before I go into it. In short, I worked for a STEM nonprofit and the Biden

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  of devising models and gathering evidence for and against them. The ... different and mutually conflicting theoretical perspectives on what makes for ... should also maybe warn you that this post is full of ~spoilers~ for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  ="113867" /] the days walk by and i wait and i wait, i wait and i wait for you to ... just wait and wait but i am getting too heavy for my hope but the stench ... ="I wrote this after reading 'Waiting for Godot' so there are some vague

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  work on the robotics board.  The theme for this year is “Wicked FBD ... with them in the beginning, and I am paying for that now. 😬 [carousel ... .086 Numerical Computation for Mechanical Engineers 2.086 is a class that focuses

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  and clear things up. Core memory for sure. Anyway, hi everyone, to ... me from..." or "I was known for...", but I'll fight through it for the sake of the blogposts. I was known on the blogs for having a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  product design, so thank you DPD for exposing me to my future career⚙️! I ... (RIP CME). Michael C. and I even travelled together to Tanzania for a safari ... zoom for our annual Secret Santa exchange. We’ve done this every year

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... only a gentle 10 mile skate. I look away, embarrassed for her and think ... everything I need for months of travel in just one backpack with my skates

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for ... dressed in shorts and aloha shirts, we were… rather ill-prepared for the ... sticks, retrieved one of the B2 fake lei, poked holes in the head for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For ... Blender for everyone because it's 100% free and can really help you create ... 're doing "] Blender [/annotation] for visualizing my ideas. So before even

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  leaves (for some reason, the trees on campus are sad and brown, while the ... Client: The International Student Association, for its Inter ... night, which meant that the streets were filled with people for whom we

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  and CS, and I watch anime and [annotation note="know an xkcd for every ... ’s occasionally competition for jobs or prizes, but competition is not the point of ... mathematician can have, or necessary for success. It’s important to celebrate

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  for MITAdmissions Math Month, and thusly there will be some math. And ... _y(x,y) = y$. See the below diagram for further clarity. [caption id ... : Yes. For every point in $\pi_x(A)$, we can draw the corresponding line

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... Rat for their class.  If you don’t already know, the Brass Rat is a ... started off rather unassuming. For the first few hours, my tasks consisted

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024