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• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  Allan K.' 17 once put it, "Stanford is never far from MIT"). Grab some ... students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a great competition that sends many alumni to MIT and is broadly aligned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  was as feared then as it is today. There was a poem perfectly describing ... graduate from Course XI. is not an impossibility."  The Sanitary Engineers ... ) was described in the yearbooks in the following way: "This Course is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  myself, "Oh well that one organization called Water.org is solving this ... out in the world and meeting people like this little girl is what put me ... clean water to over 3 million people. The organization that is really

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  -athlete. The job has been trying in the cases when I've had to edit work that is ... in releasing work that I think is wrong, and it's a little painful ... 'm not sure yet what I think the correct course of action is. Also: we

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do." When I was seventeen ... radio show at the campus station, WMBR. That show is now in its tenth year ... my jobs have been here, my med school is here, and they haven't kicked

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  different teams will cooperate in order to achieve that goal. Why is this ... decisions in the face of uncertainty. And this is often the case of how major ... once. Leading an ELL is like juggling ten books while a red timer is

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February Updates ... send us stuff via email or mail, but the FUN form is the best way to update us. The FUN form is due by February 15th. You may still submit a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... not feel bad about it. Success for her is temporarily measured on a Pass

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the QuestBridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don ... application is incomplete, we will not be able to match you. However, we would

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  I am excited. I am excited because my math professor is sentences away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is ... 's to come. I don't think this is going to be one of those posts. I don ... breakfast is always longer than you think it is. Far and above it all it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  is not a guide to optimizing your CPW experience... here are a few ... best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the ... , you shouldn't plan on glomming onto your host—remember that campus is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  mug is also from him, and is sitting on top of what will hopefully soon ... Hephaestus company. He is currently guarding a Rubik’s cube I bought over IAP ... ’ve been serving various purposes. The latest is a makeshift Towers of Hanoi

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  puzzle is—that’s pretty straightforward. A punt is more intricate, and is ... , what you have before you, folks, is a punt puzzle. I don’t know how easy or difficult it is, but I expect that—whether you're a casual reader

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... everything I do.  This is my SolidWorks-ing, paper-writing, photo ... nearly the perfect computer for my purposes: it's 4.5 pounds, is incredibly

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  is awesome but it doesn't match up to authentic Taiwanese cuisine ... an institution is a little hard to explain. I'll give you this instead ... the piano as someone else pulled out a mahjong set. Mahjong is kind of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic ... latter of these changes is always accompanied by questions, so I wanted to ... questions that students have. The upshot is that we require three letters

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City ... travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with 50 strangers, even if that room is moving toward family and camping and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then, I’ve been ... great class—Poetry Workshop. This is a class in which we share our poems ... the evening, and each week there is a different theme for our poetry

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  leadership to life at MIT. At first I thought, hey leadership is leadership, right? But I quickly learned that leading a high school club or two is ... Tech for the past two years and know that he is not only an enthusiastic

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012