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• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability ... there are other circumstances, too, in which the cost of trying for ... . For similar reasons (with the bonus fear of getting hate-crimed), I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  (The subtitle is from my unpatented and unholy mix of the songs ... beautiful end table off the street myself and I’m still very proud of it), but ... behind a guy with one of said four-foot-tall plants. The plant had bright

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  orientation (safe travels for the rest of you arriving over the weekend!).  It ... you about just a few of the abundant resources around campus - and is by ... stressed out of your mind?  The deans in this office are good to touch base

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  barrier to entry into the industry in the year of our lord 2019 eating the ... take 24 hours to air dry to my satisfaction out of all the cities i ... previous blog post: the days go by slowly but the weeks speed by. here are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  more importantly, and more to the point of this entry, some shirts I ... , you may be wondering, dear reader, why I'm pontificating about the joys of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  Location: 4-270 There'll be four panelists, all of whom have a strong ... , with the remaining 50 minutes reserved for questions, answers, and debate. This event is especially important in light of Benazir Bhutto

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Thursday

  

  defense of Phil '05 5:30-6:30 -- piano drop at Baker House (in honor of Drop Date) 6:30-9:00 -- "Three tongues of the Muse" -- A tricultural poetry night with dinner, live music, and dance The event will include: -A full

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  apparently I was erroneous. Maybe it's like the wedding episode of I Dream of ... among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... other countries may not have access to such a diverse range of options ... see what you did with the options available to you no matter where you
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  them and feel like I have numerous holes in my understanding of the ... /NR and thus alleviating the majority of my anxieties each week. I won ... environment like the one you're currently in—you'll (hopefully) have lots of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  . (Thanks Sylvia '14 for the cake!) and a surprising number of uses for ... of the year housing lottery as an absolutely critical, life ... living situation--I was able to move part of the way through the second

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm. This was done primarily to create the illusion of actually having time ... myself up-to-date on goings-on outside the world of MIT - What? The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ="very exciting in the age of Zoom"]taught really well![/annotation] I also like ... field, gyroscopic rate of a spacecraft, and the angle of the sun (using ... work internally, but I’d like to find out, which is one of the reasons I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  One of the coolest things about building and studying computers is ... hundred hundred hundred hundred hundred of these doors in the house, and you ... . Closer! EVEN CLOSER! Perfect. This little piece of the rock is made

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the sacrificial table by Deirdre '08, handmaiden of Krotus. Yelena '06 was the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005