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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  to visit MIT, danger signs you see posted on doors, LEGOs, and tons of ... . Read dozens, maybe hundreds of blog entries on this site, from different ... affecting the lives of potential applicants. If you are going to comment on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... down a gravel road. So every Halloween, my “route” consisted of exactly ... planned with our winter coats. We would knock on her door and she would

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  Happy new year everyone! I'm hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who always seem surprised when they find out, Michigan is on the EASTERN time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Stipe played an ice cream man on one episode of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for ... at MIT. I mean, come on--he grows ears out of the backs of lab mice

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Visit YouTube to Participate in the World Economic Forum! Have world leaders watch and respond to your video at this year's World Economic Forum!

  

  website offers five tips for increasing the likelihood of your video's being ... ://web.mit.edu/mitir/) to spread awareness of an unprecedented opportunity: You can ... ://www.youtube.com/thedavosquestion and post a video response of no more than three minutes to the following

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  -40 hours per week. But getting a glimpse of the 360 Photography Class on the ... ’ve visited camera shops, looked at many websites, hunted on a disappointing ... ? You should write something about that. So on a day where [annotation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  hands-on workshops. As the resident earth scientist of the group, I wrote ... This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  personal opinion on humanities than it is the quality of the courses. 2. Some ... Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No ... 's calculated using an arbitrary combination of color choices and the amount spent

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  different halves of the dorm. The numbers refer to the floor number. I live on ... forms filled out (take note, do not try to fill out all of the forms on ... fast! All of my past Moonbounce memories had me bouncing for hours and

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  -frosh, at the CPW of 2012. My host was a rower on the men’s lightweight team ... of practice, a bunch of novices crowded around a bench swing on the ... make a boat go fast), and that requires a lot of self-sacrifice and a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  links: CK-MIT Website MIT Spectrum article on founder (and Rhodes Scholar ... Exactly three weeks from today, I'll be done with my freshman year of ... , finals...), and several doses of caffeine lie between me and that fateful

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  eat with my family, of course, the meal depends on all of our wants and ... version of oatmeal. You take some dry oats, dump a bunch of milk on them ... just threw in some of that? If I put a giant wheel on the top? And once

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted An open thread for admitted students.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2011! Feel free to use this post's comments space to introduce yourselves to your future classmates. (Later this week, look for new stuff on your MyMIT portal)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted Posting for admitted students.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2010! Feel free to use this post's comments space to introduce yourselves to your future classmates (and, later this week, look for new stuff on your MyMIT portal).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  application portals open, and deadlines fast approaching, I am reminded of the bulk of conversations that I have had about essays, right around this ... and/or college counselor) I have always tried to provide the type of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  institutions have a finite amount of financial aid that they dole out on a first ... plenty of notes. On your trip back your child will babble on and on about ... found a few nuggets of wisdom in my last post that will help you and your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  (or EECS). His website - ThePlaz.com - also has a wiki, and on this wiki, he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on ... I covered up the test and worked on a blank sheet of paper. In high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  on the presence or absence of dining (unless cost is an important ... will spend on the rest of your week's meals). This means the Pilot 2021 ... remainder of your weekly meals. So you’ll have to shop/budget/plan on your own

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  As the name implies, this is going to be a tier ranking of all thirty ... ) CMS.621 Fans and Fan Culture (Ed Schiappa) My favorite class of all ... extensive blogpost on why I love this class and why this class is great. Ed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023