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• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  applying to college now, you probably know what I mean. I remember being ... perfect applicant—you are not, and you do not need to be. Rather, essays can ... obstacles3. Remember that you are applying to be part of a student body, not

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... would be a perfect spot, assuming you don't want to use your main essay

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  molecule tag to other proteins, causing them to be degraded by the cell). So ... spines will tend to be more active. In a hand-waving way, spine density and ... neurotransmitter to be released. The packets of neurotransmitter travel across the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the ... brain to another: “When we're talking about something being an oral ... trying to avoid being alone than on trying to find people i liked

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  ’re hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you ... ways you won't be able to predict those differences. Maybe if you go ... give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  straightforward. In most of these cases, I was asking for my response to be ... time at which a request was reviewed and responded to by a grader. Using ... (61%) resulted in points being added to my score, helping me achieve

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... as a fun, competitive way to build tools that people would want. From ... felt incredibly motivated to solve the problems in a smarter way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  to get supplies for the trip. However, I also didn't want to be writing it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the ... awaits, we're supposed to go see some alligators in a swamp on the way

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  safer, more accurate cannon, which could be handled by just about anyone ... he'll be just fine. And I'll have a place to watch the (zombie) Bruins ... . I'm going to head home and finish unpacking. By the end of the week I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  situated next to a beautiful new open space, and across the way from the ... option, by far, is to drive to campus. The traffic is very bad, the roads ... .g. Alewife, South Station, etc —  and ride in from there. In addition to being

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school ... MIT: If you don't know much about MIT, this might be a good place to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  dorms, it can be hard for freshmen to get singles, since upperclassmen get ... time can lead to frozen pipes. Don't eat in your room – Snacks might be ... when you're hungry, it can be irritating to smell hours later. Take out

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  mechanisms, when often the problem could be solved by just talking to people ... MIT. Here’s how we do things here—and, by the way, we’re so glad to have ... , who also happens to be MIT’s choir director, invites Concert Choir

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Of Mice and Men by ... strongly recommend to a friend Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... 'd ever want to know to be neatly packaged in an organized, clearly ... distilled into a form gentle enough to be diffused into our frail young minds

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until ... still a whole life of decisions to be made. It could be graduate school ... but be influenced by the people we care about. Parents, for one, is on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... ," followed by what I'm sure will be a nice reception with the students. Ian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  Sometimes I secretly wish for exciting things to happen to me so that ... allowed to drop a class without penalty, was last Wednesday, so I'm in all my classes for the long haul. (Truth be told, I've never dropped a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  Hiya. So on my way back home to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I took the ... to be hanging out with me? Okay, that picture isn't really from ... inbound train to city hall, figuring it to be a good place to start. From

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  was confused as to why that would be the case. I considered myself ... fire shows. I spun to “The Lighthouse” by Halsey for my very first show, a song referencing sirens luring sailors to their deaths. To be fair

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023