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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  along the way, and it's exciting to think of all the future projects I ... that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your advisor at the beginning of the semester and have them approve your course

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... choose to self-identify with any of a number of questions, they would like ... his very first documentary. Of course, I would have loved his

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  , which can be downloaded off of the MyMIT website. Your semester grades are ... be great, but definitely by the end of February. You may also want to ... 's nothing that I see to be lacking or needing improvement -- most of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a ... with zippered pockets. Or make daily sacrifices to the frowning gods of ... counter-arguments to this, of course, like the value of having something

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  's free up a lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to ... of stress — because the adults in their world are holding them to such ... applying to college these days. Baby boomers have produced a booming crop of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  ’t just want to assemble one-thousand pieces to see some cartoon image of ... offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... than just that, and I have to get some time off of work sometime and just

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  ; walking from one side of campus to the other took less than 4 minutes. MIT ... a mailing list to know where to get the free food), and of course ... language of MIT, you’re probably in utter confusion, something to look

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  excited at the opportunity to solve all sorts of puzzles," she said. She ... . It's important to know when to back away from an issue in favor of ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... difference. I talked to a couple of the Gordon Engineering Leadership (GEL ... to the solution, so our product yield was half of its potential. It

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  rest of the students by allowing them to build great labs and dorms and ... advantages of learning, who had the means to go to college in an era before ... of the things most likely to elicit a gigantic facepalm is when a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a ... opportunities for me to get my work in one of these. I argued that even something like an emailed copy of my results to the head of our group would

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  Embracing Uncertainty. It claimed to offer "breakthrough methods for achieving ... stronger voice inside myself to tell me what to do. The book offered a way of ... them out of hand. She believed that the authors had something to offer

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  must come face to face with the implications of his increasingly souring ... 's important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school ... the basic premise of the characters, the card-counting method, and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  radical concept of allowing students to post freely and honestly about what ... , appealed to the journalist side of me). And that's why I'm really, really ... On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... losing funny points in front of Jonathan, the constant struggle of man to ... kind of unhinged humor that is unique only to Jenny and being bullied

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... interaction reduces the amount of time you have to think yourself into misery. I ... and the admissions office comes to fruition. Breathing is hard right

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete ... existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  are way too many kinds of defense for me to be able to cover them all in ... kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending ... , forcing each defender to match up with one offensive player. this benefits

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  ="National Society of Black Engineers - An organization that works to support the ... check our stuff in so me and a group of others made a lunch trip to Chick ... to the convention center, but actually getting out of that large comfy

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my ... ,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in-game. The reason that The Game of Life has to quantify life experiences as

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025