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• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  important note for today: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial ... is for high achieving high school students from rural schools, the two ... college courses as high school students. Landers is now a graduate of Paris

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge, Autumn is slowly creeping in. You don't notice her at first - but there ... , My interview is within 3 weeks, so I want to know how you prepared for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] !!![/caption] Hank is a man of many passions: science ... SciShow taught me about how powerful education is and how it can be used ... Remarkable Thing captured how weird and profound the social internet is. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  is just my MIT-induced masochism/Stockholm syndrome speaking, but I ... classes, especially electives. This post is about some of the things I think ... graduate? Am I prepared for the workload? How often is it typically

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  are endless, and what’s truly crazy is that any of these alternate ... thousand roads ahead I take. Something interesting that I've noticed is that ... in a nice bow. Well, this blog is different. This is my official

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  … also weirdly exciting?  This is 2.671, Measurements and Instrumentation ... a semester to pursue any research question we can imagine. This is a particularly special class because it is required for everyone majoring in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... ? Is it someone’s full-time job to churn out pumpkin after pumpkin non ... a pumpkin crew yet, but this is my impression."]about two dozen

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  (the one in the United Kingdom, not in the United States where MIT is ... electromagnetism and [annotation note="graphene is so cool. basically, it's a novel material that is a 1-atom thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  , honed over years of enduring awkward icebreakers as an awkward person, is ... threefold strategy is something my brain calls [annotation note="mentally stylized as Draw ______ but maybe that is bad branding"]"Draw a Blank

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  14 years, Ethan, who is a student as UCSD and he kindly let me stay over at his place for the weekend. For those who do not know, Twitch is ... actually big back then too but I think this is around the time where the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  too much like a sieve. I saw a Tweet that says: if ur self-narrative is ... a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to ... don’t have a superbly high risk tolerance and the start-up world is so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  vibranium – a rare and non-renewable resource – is hopelessly unsustainable ... ’s funky shape is possible thanks to reinforced concrete – concrete embedded ... bridges (and helpfully points out that the Harvard bridge is a steel

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries ... at 20, i’ve learned that staying kind is far more productive to myself ... is crazy. being honest with yourself, too. i’d say i’m a very self

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  , Sorority, and Independent Living Group) system. My house is called WILG ... [/caption] A lot is redacted from this paragraph, but this is the first interview ... started this fire into WILG. Note that the pronouns here are he, but WILG is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... artificial intelligence is cool, and I think brains are cool. Declaring 6 ... requirement, which is made up of eight subjects of at least nine units each

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ,000 [aquaporins] per square micron.”  which is kind of vague (what do you mean, up ... ,000 number That’s half the terms I want. This is going well.   1:37 am ... sheets?   1:57 am: This is the sixth paper that tells me

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  this is a post by my good friend aidan chambers '23 who is a physics ... Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet ... class is leading you through Nobel-prize winning experiments that were

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  thousand stairs, you could visit me in my gremlin cave, which is technically a double but is actually a very small single. My gremlin cave has ... sometimes we get too competitive, and then suddenly Eva is screaming and Dylan

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

   love the class? Somewhat. The material is interesting, but I'm not sure I enjoy it ... for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have ... . This semester, I am taking 8.01L, 18.01, 3.091, and 6.A01, which is a first

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is ... wonderful and supportive he is would warrant another blog post"]we loved our

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021