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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  particularly wary about choosing a dorm based on its possession or lack of a ... choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... . Late May/early June -- receive a booklet with descriptions of each dorm

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , the top of the boat lifting out of the water with how fast we were going ... hundreds of LEDs inside which turned on and off individually. Using this sphere, they could farm a lot of training data on how hands looked in

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  and African communities on campus, and would also be a big part of ... of 2016, where he and other MIT students worked on interesting startup ... of the projects on the ground was difficult. 10-15 years ago when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  list of activities but an explanation to the activities listed on the ... checking out the forums on The Art of Problem Solving. Tracy, it is best to ... system on the website. You'll be treated in the same way as those students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  watch The Master of Disguise on DVD and not think about my phone. I want ... It's the time of year when the blogs get a little wistful. I ... semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  started writing my blog for the MIT Admissions website. A lot of the blogs ... bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about a week of waiting the finalists were announced. With five times as

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008