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• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions ... the new website and what we do -- but as we think about how we help our ... , because I had a lot of experience writing blogs and posting on forums. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  . Bummer. Musical suggestions that I dug out of my old/new Spotify playlists ... Facts website, 88 percent of the student population will have participated ... and emailed a graduate student directly. On some lab websites, they

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, was really magical.  [carousel ... day trip to New York. Some of my SSP friends now attend MIT with me, and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be published the day of graduation, and maybe one or two process blogs on a few ... course was a critical investigation on the role of vision on a neural

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  friends found a new friend group that they began spending lots of time with ... of events are often blessings in disguise. friends joining new groups ... for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  't really know what they were doing. They'd often make fun of me for being on ... someone to notice that I was adamant on skipping meals because of how I felt ... until I was out of breath and panting on the floor. Which only made me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  and recommendation on the politically tortuous issuance of the ... amount of time on it. At the very most, you can help me (totally voluntary ... ensure a steady supply of the oil on which we are so reliant, even as we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  of Sex and the City in which Carrie Bradshaw runs a 5K.) My new ... of use, and they're not intended for long distance running. I decided to go into Boston and buy new shoes from Marathon Sports. They

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... )." -"Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services", Science, November

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  time around, but on the morning of July 16, 2005 -- when the sixth book ... Harry's lightning bolt scar on the Great Dome. On Confessions of an Aca ... arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design and analysis of fMRI experiments, focusing primarily on experiments on ... couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  characters on this famed seedy strip. In my senior year of high school, I ... , either; if you look on their website they've actually done some pretty ... need of a good dose of classic rock on a Friday night, head over to the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  plenty of dreams in attendance. Check your “most visited” website stats ... , The New York Times, U.S. Department of Energy… And 400 more. They come ... Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  a 3-D printing company and gave a lecture on the uses and failures of ... had intended to weld the single pieces on to the back of the big piece ... holes in your glorious new project. I practiced on my prototype pieces

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... YOU NOT LIKE FAST FOOD!!!??? Ahha love to hear your response on that ... have a better chance of getting in. But based on self-selection and a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  some really great techniques on how to "ground oneself," which is when ... : Put both feet on the ground. Look around. Count the number of ... We all have those weeks. Some sort of tragedy happens - a death in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New ... pages), out on Sept. 6, the saga of an immigrant family, but that wouldn ... Wao would merely have been the saddest book of the year. With Díaz on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  soon. I'm also happy to announce the arrival of a new blogger, Evan ... , a bunch of new copy to write, and a lot of planning meetings to attend ... think he deserves some sort of trophy, don't you? Before I tell you about

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic deaths of four hardworking police officers in Dallas, it feels like America

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  Board Games and Ice Cream Meet some of your new classmates through ... Make your way through the most puzzling of MIT’s dorms on the path to ... , fast-paced combination of math, shape, and word puzzles set within the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015