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• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  math and science competitions is "absolutely essential" to be accepted to ... " to be accepted to MIT, and I can tell you for sure that the majority of ... way. Moreover, it's a pretty big understatement to say that MIT has a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  ’s environment be conducive to people with non-young adult problems? According to ... and public health, taught by the research team’s leader, and wanted to ... project to be part of, and a great one to discuss with friends. Project 2

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to ... Mohr’s circle, which is this amazing shorthand way to solve these kinds

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  , simply send a message to [email protected] and we'll be happy to take ... should arrive very soon! In the meantime, please don't forget to register for Campus Preview Weekend via your MyMIT account by March 31st. If

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... I set to work." *Accompanied by a drawing of what I assume was meant to be a spaceship. Apparently I was a little confused about what NASA

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  Mountain View to make weather.com boring for me. I used to think it'd be sooo ... 've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... temporary. I’m almost certainly not going to put in the hours required to be ... probably will be for a while. It’s easy to interpret that as lazy. And maybe

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  you want to add yours (Doesn't have to be Facebook lol). The tech is ... A collaborative post by guest blogger Jessica Quaye '20 and Caroline ... would say, ‘You won’t be alone if you take care of your people’, so we

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  session turned out to be really convincing and I decided to apply to MIT. If ... end up will be good for me, and I will be valuable to it. That place turned out to be MIT. I certainly have never regretted applying to MIT or

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  - which will be coming soon, I promise. But it's silly to plow ahead with ... I'd be a huge, hypocritical, condescending jerk if I were to tell you ... depite their disappointments. Be inspired by them- getting into MIT (or not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on ... set above the MIT campus last Saturday, I excitedly made my way to ... could ask an MIT student any question, what would it be?” To which Hasan

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  I would like to start off by thanking you all for deciding to read ... and so therefore I collected data*. Data about sneezing, to be precise ... reason for being late was unfortunately not excused by my teacher). Rapid

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  kind of deserved it. 9. The title credits are supposed to be "scientific ... American History, colonists at Charleston did better by stealing the tea and ... think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off ... out to be a lot more complex and thought-through than you originally ... find this piece of clothing hilarious.)   Ceri also volunteered to be

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  , all in very beautiful ways. I went with Nora to a poetry reading by ... about it. my only threshold was to not be super mega unready for the ... B. '25, who turned out to be an incredible pset group. we worked

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  'll be accelerating the rest of my photo journal entries to make way for my ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800 ... . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  that post has to relate back to MIT in some way. But my boss and the ... posts:   ---- On Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you ... to first check it out. MIT seems to be littered with free a cappella performances (people litter a lot in cities; MIT also seems to be littered with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  incredible joy to watch a beautiful performer be recognized for something she ... once every two to three years, and we just happened to be there to see it ... quickly went to work deciphering the jokes. Anyone who has learned a foreign

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc ... time to be lost though right m: yeah! i don’t think ill actually ever ... to be 12 hours of work a week, so taking 5 is 60 hours, on top of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021