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• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a ... ' forum, I'll try to respond both as an MIT adcom and also as a parent. This ... in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... , having just wrapped up an STS UROP, now contemplating a second major of Urban Planning, having declared a HASS concentration in Economics, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  So. It’s been a while since I last was on the blogs, speed writing about a new experience. During my writing hiatus, over this past summer, I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  today yesterday [annotation note="so i started writing this post a ... other stuff. so this may be a little late. im too lazy to change the rest of the tenses in this paragraph so just bear with me a little

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  sailing. Before you argue with that, go spend a few hours lying outside, and let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see ... you're interested, a B8 III blue giant with a prominent mercury

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  Period) are spent ensuring everyone has a common base of experimental ... is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 15 hours) but you still give a full 15-minute presentation and write a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  This is a guest blog post from the MIT Panhellenic Association, which ... sorority recruitment (and I am not in a sorority). However, I think that these organizations are a distinctive part of MIT student life and can

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Massachusetts (like most US states) allows driving with a foreign license printed ... dismay, a Google search revealed that Maine only allows driving with a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  be a blogger. while i read it now and see [annotation note="emphasis on ... a more authentic state (even if i cringe reading it now).  i remembered this draft's existence when i found myself writing a similar

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  -variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in ... ?", which was a question quickly followed up by: "wait,,,, what do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  , so I’m not complaining.   I’m in Black Valley Hostel, a beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... was a lot going on, because there's always a lot going on. So I didn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ... ." "got a long day ahead. mondays are stacked for me." after 99 seconds, i ... class. there's still a ridiculous amount of snow. 10:05. my first class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  Hello hello! I am Alina S. (‘24). Briefly: I am a course 2A (mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House. I am Vietnamese and Filipino and a first-gen immigrant on both sides

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  a quote that sat right above his whiteboard, visible at every place in ... a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact monumentous and grand and large. All it took for us to understand that was a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... primarily a HASS major. When I look at the classes and the work being done by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  with a Pinterest board dedicated to being an [annotation note="One of 16 ... hindsight, I see their point; I spent a lot of energy trying to maintain this ... high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... cousin’s Bar Mitzvah, traveled to Moscow with our family, drew a lot

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle ... , specifically in terms of a course 6 class we ended up taking last semester, the ... -feel-like-we’d-rather-be-doing-more-artsy-things”) was a big reason we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year ... exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018