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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  stressful weeks. He often checks in on all of us and reminds us to stay ... quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... .021 As many of you know, I failed/dropped out of 8.02, Physics E

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  unknowns. for example, it was only through a graduate sitting in on one of ... in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... continuity, like living groups. other groups collapse, often from a cascade of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  weeks, as the semester has built up, the value of checking up on people ... Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... . And amidst all of this constant work and running around, we see people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths of MIT fraternities and sororities and show what our communities are ... CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be ... year is very low; we had to turn away the vast majority of excellent ... take lightly. Of those applicants, we admitted just over 1,500 students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After ... lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I ... what I saw - not just the content of the blogs, but also the fairly

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post. NOTE: You needn’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... seriousness, starting a project was kind of a milestone for me in high school

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  ....) there is nothing like taking your hair out of its ponytail and washing off the grime of the day. The showering is the easy part, though-it’s the ... very few variations on the nice pants/collared shirt/tie ensemble. As

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  't see? Things sitting on top of things, things inside of things, heat and ... , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... motion of things? Cars and people and hands and raindrops. Would it be

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action ... battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived ... FIRST tradition, each year on the night before the Kickoff, Dean Kamen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo ... surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... garden of temporary statues. "Hammer Time." The scene resumes. I

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack ... going on in the floor lounge... One of the requirements of 3.091 (one of ... ice cream. It was all quite delicious, even if a certain member of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  "soda". Some people said "pop" (I'm still unclear on what region of the ... couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent at least 2-3 times a week (by now, of course, I have a group of people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  service. Decorated with medals and ribbons on graduation. You've heard of ... . You’re putting yourself on paper. Recognize the things you did and fell in love ... did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  a sample of laptop stickers of MIT. These types of blogs are less ... thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply ... : Unfortunately, I am not immune to the allure of selection bias, so the MIT that is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the MIT community takes to make everyone feel welcomed. There are plenty of ... Science and Engineering) APR (Association of Puerto Rican Students at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a model of MIT's famous Green building. Interestingly enough, this model was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  wanted two things 1) travel farther 2) focus on architecture. The answer ... world. Currently, there are 11 branches of MISTI (China, Japan, France ... can to travel alone internationally for the first time. Of course I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  One new section of our application this year distinguishes between ... the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009