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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  love?  It seems that this may be the easiest question of all for ... for its nerdy interests – and our president is no different. “I ... the subject, her passion for climate and her belief that climate change

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  It's been one week since decisions were released for the 2023s, and ... metaphor for it. Instead enjoy this large photo of my very small dog, who is ... waitlist for Columbia! She ended up going to MIT! I told my dad about the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this ... for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let the chance experiences and adventures serve as a guide for what’s next

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... mind had exceeded capacity, and there wasn’t enough oxygen for each ... ; however, it was all for naught the moment my efforts would matter most. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I ... 've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  -of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end ... meter! Since MIT.nano’s inception, researchers have used the space for ... : Each silicon wafer can fit 25 solar cells, so we had space left for other

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... is sought out for itself is more complete than what is sought out on ... choiceworthy is that which is chosen for its own sake. This may seem kind of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  Some days, I feel good. Some days, I feel like I can work for hours. On those days, I get a lot done. I find myself able to work for like ... Messenger. I work for an hour, and then I’m lying on bed scrolling through my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes ... was refreshing, and I’d been staring at my computer for the last… well ... let loose. It only lasted for a few chaotic seconds before I doubled

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For ... Influential People in the World" in 2012 for his liquid metal battery research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  print for writing-centric high school classes like US Government and Psychology. With that said, invest in your own printer for college – might just ... college? They are so incredibly useful! My dorm uses them for potluck

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... different dorms as a prefrosh, or as a freshman, and trying out what works for ... floor works for me. We're a cohesive unit, not just a bunch of people who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of ... you came into some people's lives for a quick burst and then flaked out. I am very grateful for that call out. He put himself out there and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in ... edited for clarity. Here are the basic details for each of the six ... India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put ... "] SHASS.[/annotation] I, for one, think this hack was extremely well done and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... David and Ali, but I’m especially grateful to them for taking me under ... manipulate images generated by deep learning models, as shown above. For this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... fit for MIT, and I think the program she started is cool. I like her ... worthiness and your potential or our admiration for your goodness and your

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... , especially if you were just not accepted by MIT for undergraduate admissions or ... out microwave for stove, metaphorically, and unwaveringly pursuing your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... really for Course 6 (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015