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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  is secreted by dead ants, it will allow itself to be carried there ... , and so we decided to share the same design agency (which ended up being ... ) we took the old ask.mitadmissions.org, which used to be an external

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

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  -house activity: I have to “cook” some days. You’ll be surprised how much one can ... of the summer #1. I’m a junior? It’s about to be Year 3 of MIT and I ... philosopher. I know two or more MIT professors who I would love to be, for their

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  transcripts) are available to students as a kind of online textbook: they can be ... always keep in mind that students may run on a different clock, and to be ... also is remarkably active in exploring innovations to classroom

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little ... your room to how to decide whether you should go to class can be a ... until 3am daily and 7-11 a quick walk away, it is hard to motivate

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... answered by just saying the first thing that comes to mind. There is time

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  Google when you search it up, way after its more famous homonymous beach city counterpart in Cornwall. you may be wondering why i’m here. i ... make the stuff discovered by the research team into real things people

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  heads. They like being mentioned and like trying to squeeze their way in ... 'd be visiting Boston later in January and would love to meet up with me ... closest things I had to a brother and a sister. It was really nice to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  this year's senior bloggers: Laura and Lulu. Our objective will be to ... , but will not rule it out). To be considered for a blogger position, you ... : Blog/writing stuff Provide a link to your "portfolio." This will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  something you're curious about - a UROP would be a great way to learn about it ... simple as "to be," to as specific as "a part of a celebration in which a ... about anything at all and can show the knowledge or motivation to be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  apologize in advance to any animal rights people who may be offended by this ... players all ganged up on me. I was so close... (By the way, I just lost the ... surgery). One of the ways we do this is by synthesizing various hydrogels

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  good way to meet new people. By virtue of being HASS, they tend to ... roofdeck . . . anyway, I digress. **Way to steal my polysyllabic descriptors ... class’s topic, or even because they are required to by the results of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  Once upon an IAP, there were 5 externs* who were lucky enough to be ... temperature to drink by mixing hot water with ice. Memory, who couldn ... 't imagine spending their IAP any other way. The end. Thanks to all the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  actually going to the ball went by really quickly, and before I knew it, it ... special transcription factor to help me unwind. --Hey baby, can I be your ... would be a great idea to use blue and white striped plastic bands that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... discussed, disproven, or altered. Then to be discussed, disproven, or altered ... . But there are pros to being a HASS major at MIT as well (and there are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  the clerk when it was my time to be helped, “I think it’s water damage ... Marla to be fixed. In just one and a half hours, and for just $64, I came ... was too lazy to go all the way down to the first floor, fill up my water

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist ... to know anything until the following week. In the meantime, May 1/2 is coming up quickly for you, too, and I hope that you've found another school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  Regular Action" which happened to be the exact title of my post. Hm, go ... &A" because I'd like to answer your questions. My goal is for this to be the one ... applying early is a great way to show the admissions office that you

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  ways to be “smart”--street smarts and people smarts and intuitive smarts ... many ways to be smart!!” These are usually perfectly genuine, and I think ... extracurriculars, or always seemed to have some interesting trivia on hand. Being the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  . Hastings commended the search committee, chaired by Professor and MIT ... he was "deeply honored" to be given the chance to lead the office on a ... be able to lead this group going forward." Schmill has served in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  science classrooms don't have to be quite as cold. There would be many ... . Eventually, I decided to study abroad. I was going to be at Imperial, meaning ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024