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• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  MIT, where the education is likened to drinking from a firehose.  As one ... might need more than the incredibly awesome How to Get Around MIT guide ... you about just a few of the abundant resources around campus - and is by

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  shake it off. I also enjoy the people. The walk to Trader Joe's is ... if she waves to every passerby, or just the ones she is curious about ... Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your nerves right ... -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  nutritious meals up my sleeve. If all else fails and the hosage monster gets me ... less intimidating, and having the audio-visual element to guide me while ... that you're making specific recipes (not required). The template tells

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  so far. I have absolutely no idea when the third one is going to arrive ... try my best. I say hello to people I see in the halls and in the food ... to not be at your best. It doesn’t diminish your worth.” i'd recommend

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  behind that is fairly simple. You get to write about yourself! You're not ... the best of you. The college essay is the time to shamelessly (but ... sometime tomorrow (check Matt's post for the details) to get your essays in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  stellar humanities program (which, by the way, it does) or a vague gesture ... these experiences with the overbearing hand of hindsight, to claim that ... admitted to. And if I hadn't chosen MIT, I probably would have chosen the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  , planned largely by our friend Aleks (a.k.a Garbuz). The Threeks all went to ... some vocal warmups before getting to the main event: my rendition of ... genuinely one of the best things that has happened to me!! since we didn

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  into the New Year, I want to wish all of you the best of luck on your ... tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor ... to take the test knowing I had prepared as best I could. For the next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  is picked and you have 1 minute to calibrate your robot. The robot then ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  years here. Ming says that doing research is the best way to learn and ... walk in the same way that humans do. Ming says, "The idea is that babies ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  cooking for yourself is dragging yourself out of bed each Sunday to get ... post). Until then - adieu!  2013 is getting off to a great start. ... Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  .” This is all to say that in order to best evaluate applicants it is ... , or context as it is more commonly referred to.  DFW explains “The point ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  the fun things about going to college is having to relearn and adapt to ... /B/C/No Record. I think this is one of the best things about MIT since no other ... just got to come to find out. The Tunnels The MIT tunnel system is one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  , perhaps it is simpler to introduce myself as part of the team of people that ... the digital ooze, my job is to help make the Internet go for the ... 'd like to do is figure out some shiny new toys to add to the already shiny

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  Washington to get to the Tuckerman’s Bowl. The hike up is worth the ski down ... I managed to get myself through the start gate. I have no memory of ... coming back for more with a grin on your face. The song that best describes

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I ... picture that the arrow points to is one from my freshman year, taken with my ... happens to have a sister who is a professional sculptor. So while the past

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  meeting for my UROP (the turkey one) just to get free apple pie 2. discussed the finer points of Food Network with Alicia '06, who actually gets to ... Network is actually the thing I'm second-most excited about with regard to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005