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• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  market scene is just beginning to liven up. Crowds of people are shuffling ... on others. I think it's important to not let the absence of others ... ='a manifestation of the spotlight effect, which is when people tend to believe they

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of ... Bargaining a piece of cake when you take 17.20 Introduction to the American Political Process. Seriously though, it's really fun to take some of your own

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  to force the CEO to agree with their decision, regardless of what the ... ’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... developed some answers to the kinds of concerns that usually pop up in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google ... path to achieving things that I never would have dreamed of, and I hope ... translate to a day in my life where I feel like I'm on top of the world, doing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  the properties of things and how to engineer new materials with the ... teaching; true to form, every pset was in the form of a superhero comic ... well-funded too, so there are plenty of opportunities to use state-of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... musician. I tried to listen to one of his songs and I ended up listening to his entire SoundCloud. Here is one of my favorites: Joe wants to show

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... . Punting involves using a gigantic pole to push off of the bottom of the ... . According to Great Britain guidebooks, punting along the "backs" (backs of

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place ... we left I wanted to get a vid of me snowboarding down so I did like my last run at 3:30PM. Got to the bottom of the mountain and realized I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  forcing me to come into lab (although sometimes my postdoc gives me kind of ... the state of Ohio, and we went to the Macy's Parade my senior year. So I came to MIT and joined the cheerleading squad, of course. I came

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  't mean you're not destined to do great things, nor that you're forced to be ... something of it. (also feel free to read what I wrote before decisions last ... 's perhaps most important for some future nerds here at MIT (not to be confused

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Asia, that we were some fucked up hybrid of past colonizers and forced to ... to the boy I thought was the love of my life, or goodbye to the boy I ... faces have started to erode with the passing of time and I am afraid that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  , who are forgotten and lack access due to forces entirely out of their ... ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... recited a part of it to us with a voice uniquely both delicate and strong

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  pedestal of mit. part of me was drawn to that, too, the part of me that ... sharing that part of me felt forbidden, unsacred. not to mention, it wasn ... the most normal so no one can make fun of me?” if i went to mit, i

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new ... spectroscopy to characterize the surface structures of electrocatalysts used in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met ... forces larger than themselves. To me, they feel more like rockets launching ... The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  lot of time inside my own head: I always want to know why I'm choosing ... needs to be disclosed to the other party. I've rejected plenty of people ... filter of the French national flag. Users could apply it to their profile

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  home of my friend Andrew. Before I chose to come to MIT, I was nervous ... would try to answer my backlog of questions you've left me. Here goes ... need to know some sort of computer programming before coming to MIT? What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  , I was graduating out of Harvard, once a place I had dreamt to attend ... context of an educational institution, and I loved it.  I’ve also come to ... school asked in their main essay to describe a “moment of truth,” I focused

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  transcript? A: You can fax it to us at 617-687-9184 or mail it to MIT Office of ... ’ve made it this far – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to ... your testing by October, do not worry; you do not have to remove MIT from

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012