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  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to ... a talk by Eric Lander (awesome). From 2:00PM - 4:00PM, I'll be ... Water War & Bouncy Ball Drop is not to be missed, and Resonance is rocking

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  drafting dots! Drafting dots, by the way, are used to mildly tape down ... work space in the intro architecture studio to find this: This is ... -related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  easiest. It should be covered by the classes you took and your grades and ... have to be academic. It might be more interesting if some of them aren ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  tend to be less undergraduate-heavy, populated primarily by researchers ... fascinated by retro tech and games (any Pico-8 fans in the chat), so I had to ... ; hosted by MIT Libraries I went to this same event last year and it was

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  appreciative but balanced way; I had never been exposed to the very New England ... appreciated: MIT students as a whole tend to be [annotation note="as you might ... around tend to be dependable; [annotation note="I cannot stress to you how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by ... thing you could do would be to come here, stay with an MIT student, and ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  am a freshman (soon to be sophomore!) very much engaged in both the ... ’ve been able to pursue at MIT one way or the other. I especially am ... summer before I came here, but the notion behind it has come to be a sort

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  most things but I'd be careful when applying this to choice of major. I ... in which you will really be able to participate and positively ... inverse, to not pick things just because they are by and large considered

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  more ways to engage with others that doesn’t involve being together ... article, and something I am still actively trying to work my way out of ... going to be an end date to the time that I would spend in cramped

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  of the post offers ways to feed yourself in a non-dining community for ... no leeway for off-campus adventures. To be fair, for people who eat ... try to go to grocery stores as rarely as possible. By the end of the

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

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  blog entries might be a bit sparse over the next three months due to an ... . 2. My job. However, the computer is supposed to only be used for ... window, but somehow the only people that ever seem to be in there with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  HASS readings. So I scrape by, I do exactly what I need to do, and all ... trip, and by settling, we have forgotten how to live. Put more eloquently ... , to be curious again, and that has been lovely. TBD whether that will

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  to where the problems are. Be rigorous. There are ways to test ... they may be of use to you in some way shape or form. --- And one ... into college. We can count on ALWAYS being in a rush to accomplish more

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  to me knows, but you are as free as you want to be at MIT. You can take ... 'right' way to do MIT. I personally take 3-4 classes a semester and ... 's no one correct way to narrow them down, but it's always super important

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  project there, is that too trivial to be even considered at MIT? Would it also be beneficial for my research mentor to write me a recommendation in ... be reviewed in full with your entire application. To answer your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  Milky Way form?” and my approach will be to measure and calculate the ages ... begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ... some point, I took a break to refill my mug, pausing on my way out the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  responsibility to articulate the transformative impact that they should be having ... guided by service to our mission, which I tend to summarize as utilizing ... work are committed, first and foremost, to helping young people reach

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  MIT, freshmen get to do things! Freshmen get to be the president of ... drowning? Well, to be honest, it sometimes happens (it sometimes happens to ... learn from this that our abilities are greater than we thought them to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... ?” boat. We don’t want to treat this blog as a way to directly advise you ... regret coming to MIT, or if you feel Y, you will definitely love being at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us ... leaving MIT to get her PhD. She was one of about 7 people in the world to be ... worked out that way. There are just so many projects that I had to put on

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005