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• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  approaches. for those of you who've already decided to come to MIT, yay! welcome! for those of you who are still on the fence, i thought i might ... i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Oh hi there. I'm back on campus now for IAP (Independent Activities ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... warmer than usual. Not bad for campus, but unfortunate for those of us

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... awkwardly inline. As fun as it is to play outside, the time-honored sport of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another prefrosh from Kansas. I’m one of those people who function best when I have an idea of what my day’s schedule looks like…and if you

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my ... once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks, like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  After questions about homeschooling, one of the most frequent ... of early- and mid-teenagers, those who, even though young, would truly be a significant part of this community. While entering college/MIT at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  the Makey Makey on stage in front of hundreds of kids during Super ... making any of that happen because it was something that future me would handle. Now, I realize that these are the days when we become the kind of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety ... compensating by drinking copious amounts of water isn’t working anymore. Suddenly, you catch a glimpse of a glimmering caramel orb. Its golden glow beckons

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... my team can get back on the water again, and waiting to see if my Unified team's bottle rocket will achieve stable flight of a minimum height

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I ... starts. i open the door to the quad only to see that none of my roommates

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  translate to a variety of actual careers. I'd tried my hand at menial labor on ... density of manmade reservoirs; however, there is limited research on how ... down to write this blog.  UROP, one of MIT’s umpteen acronyms, stands

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  class of 30? 40? When I visit MIT and sit in on a similar math class ... receive the same lecture from two more male classmates on their awareness of ... festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for ... of evaluating ourselves based on what others are doing. I've never felt ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  ...with programming languages. A few of us have some programming background, but for the rest of us (me!) it’s like … I don’t know, catching up with the rest of ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the bottom of every blog ... News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends on Facebook. Everybody ... I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  on the updated version of his hack site, "only keep one instance of the ... of the votes from making it into the poll. The idea of outing the main ... overcome ("It would be entirely unethical of me to stuff a ballot box, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  registration desk on the second floor of the Student Center (La Sala). You all ... , April 9 I'll be hanging around the checkout area on the second floor of ... ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  that I was never going to go on to become some kind of research scientist ... calculate the answer. So I made up my own weird method of calculation based on ... found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  to every class and completed all of my assignments on time. Freshman ... , getting 100% on most of my psets and not punting a single one, but because of my first two exam grades, if I didn't do ok on this third exam, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  metaphor. California feels like the first world of many on this long, long ... In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019