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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was born and raised in India but for the past decade or so had worked as a project manager for NASA. He goes back to rural India to a village ... to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  recommend"] like 15 hours writing [/annotation] about the food I ate for a ... in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into ... hackmit team"] for the entire spring semester. [/annotation] Anyway, spring

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  that I just don't believe. If you think about it for a few more moments ... in sophomore spring, that for me the meaning of life, in essence, is ... 2: art One thing I'm very grateful to MIT for is that it has really

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to take at MIT! CourseRoad is an invaluable tool for MIT students – it has information about the requirements for each major, when classes are offered, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  plushie named Nat (short for Gnat). I’ll keep updating this log, probably ... ; definitely lots more legroom than on a plane, and, for the moment, there ... leadership election for a little longer, and then start reading something

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  . I lived on a Christmas tree farm in Lawrenceville, NJ! For a few ... year was finally making time for running, and way more time for my health ... shaped like NH![/caption] 3. I lived completely on my own for the first

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn ... . for one, software engineering apps feel very silly. instead of crafting a good application for a dozen or so carefully selected universities

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  motors for our rockets. The team mixes custom ammonium perchlorate ... [/caption] Composites (brrrrrrr)  is responsible for the design, manufacturing, and ... enclosures and panels for the avionics tower are manufactured on 3D printers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  ambassador. WISE stands for Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering, and ... the MIT experience over two days. You can find the application for this ... doing research mentioned that his son visited schools for free during his

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using ... revising my essays at every editing point. It’s pretty cool, and for those of ... ’m showing y’all was written for MIT’s, “Describe the world you come from

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  your questions that I could know, some generalized for the public. If you ... this post is so long). Thank you all for your emails and kind words and for sharing your experiences! I appreciate y’all! Number 1 tip

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Institute and our admissions process, particularly for those far ... speaking to as many students as I could. I'm writing notes for my colleagues ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  :30am. I stumbled around French House for a bit, bundled up, and shuffled to the student center for breakfast. Surprisingly, my only gaffe of the ... the grass for a dog sniff security check. I didn't consider my notebook

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... for an admissions or selections committee is HARD. It's not like ... called an Application Essay, Objectives for Graduate Study, Personal

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  two days prior, when I flew back from San Francisco to Boston for just a ... minutes for a domestic flight – not bad, right? Well, it turns out that ... number of times the self check-in has actually worked for me with this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  .)) This has been one of the harder admissions posts for me to make, but one that I’ve been thinking about writing for a while. I listened to Silvana Estrada’s “Si Me Matan” for the majority of writing this post, which is a

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  provide great communities for students that complement those found in MIT ... part of the Panhel community for almost a full year! When we were on ... necessity, not choice), tutor for the Math Learning Center, and production

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  past - please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing ... than the 12 from last year, the Class of 2010. For more information on ... Stata Center (for the unique architecture? =p). I think the really cool

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  half-explain/half-give advice on academic preparation for your freshman ... your transcript as simply a P for pass. No it doesn't matter if you got a ... earning letter grades for passing that do affect GPA, but you still will

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  moved out of Next House. As someone who lived there for all four years of undergrad, it felt weird. But I’ll leave post-graduation feelings for another ... was taking British Airways. I pretty much bummed around at the gate for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025