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• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  many projects to finish. My shelf feels like it will never be completed ... skills on the way, that would be lovely, but it wouldn’t be enough. Of course it wouldn’t be. Welding metal will not ever actually compare to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch ... who thinks that the only way to learn a lot is to take a lot of classes

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  undergraduate women being affiliated to one of the [annotation note="the six ... junior who also happens to be my little, and she’s going to show us around ... Welcome to a tour of three MIT sorority houses! Believe it or not

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  reacting, we must recognize and learn from two elements that may seem to be ... don't expect our applicants to be perfect, we do require them to be ... students to be incredibly engaged and think that nothing is impossible. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... →right→up→right→... (by 45 degrees each time) will never return it to its original ... times to achieve the desired orientation. There must be something else

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  be tempted by the College Confidential forums and encouraged or ... titles make you want to be their friend and classmate? Don't invent the ... Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a ... retrospective of all the times I've failed since getting to MIT. This one would be ... only way I can experience catharsis is by putting my whole self out there

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  way about your own writing? Once again, the purpose of the essays is to show who you are to the group of strangers who decide if you would be a ... 't have to be. Have you ever heard of one of these essays winning a major

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  think their way out. Be there as a source to ask thought-provoking, open ... admitted to Existentialists University. The frown on your face may be related ... , don't be surprised if the 2nd question is "How am I supposed to get to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  to be swept up by peer pressure and marketing and insecurity, if they ... november 29th, 2022 10am: you attend nano lecture but are unable to ... somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... freedom to explore and grow that is hard to obtain in most places. But being ... be able to stay closer to my culture and family and what I've always

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to ... for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  the pressures to be admitted to the "right" college. The sign ... a blog is, and 2) how blogs can be used to demystify the admissions ... , then tomorrow I fly out to Southern California. I'll be doing Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  regional, and raised travel funds by making presentations to companies. I ... . I learned to use a tap by accidentally snapping off the tap while it ... school across the street. When I got to 9th grade, I was told to be wary of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  supposed to be, but i do think there is some truth to it - that by learning ... polish them; the rest of the paragraphs just become a way to link the main ... as trying to achieve specific goals will not be able to appreciate

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  sort of the way we’ve always done things as opposed to being an extreme ... news. To be clear, this idea is different from the push to integrate a ... to people should be gendered at all, instead advocating the use of a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  it felt to be held by you”. it’s a strange line at first glance because you’d expect this sentence to be said by someone who was held in the ... i could get x to like me or life would be much better if i were dating

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  Okay guys, here's the deal...Halloween is quickly approaching, and I have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up ... waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  filing to be done. Doing all that filing reminded me of Being John ... Cusack's character, Craig, after being unable to find work as a puppeteer ... is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  I'm currently dealing with writer's block, to be honest, and I ... RAM, which is neat too. It’s also way lighter and feels nicer to carry ... switching to Linux in fear for becoming a "tech person", but to be honest, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020