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• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of ... greatness! Keep reading to learn a little bit more about the MIT Class of ... One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  deliver* a sandwich to the first person(s) to solve it from scratch**. *The ... . **The answers may be online somewhere, but I'll ask to see your work ... processing is invaluable. The answer is one word. PS: Need to change my page

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... tend to suck. Like, not just your average suck. They tend to really suck

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  'm getting A-/B+'s in all my academic classes and working 20+ hours a week in ... the fun part. But I seem to get into a build, fly, crash, repeat cycle ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a public elementary school, lets call it school A. In school A, we made ... , without a judgement in her voice, pure and simple, “Why do you cover your

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what ... -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... show follows a family on a ship on course to a planet in the Alpha

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will pass that advice on in the posts to come. A visit to Boston to visit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... , email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of ... 's commenting system, but to me that seemed like a bad choice. It excludes not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated ... has a student holiday on Monday that the professors always seem to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... patience to watch the office in its entirety but was able to get through the ... something not directly connected to your message, and as a result you cannot

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  . You don't get something for nothing. In addition to rerouting your life ... . Try to pick a place that fits you in the summer in case you get stuck ... your life in interesting ways, if you let it, but you have to let it. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  ...each piece of information in your application folder, is like the piece of a ... getting to the end and realizing there is a piece missing. Now sometimes it ... warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  you're a fan of alpine skiing, the World Cup finals are being held in Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id ... people are used to speaking English at least in a tourism setting. Andorra

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  . Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 't get to do a Questions Omnibus before I left, but I promise to do one ... urges to blog every time I see a computer...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  you to a career in animation -- is something we would have really wanted ... animated short, as a way to more formally continue learning this skill! And ... about how to get into the animation industry, and he responded with a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... , this blog is certainly not going to satisfy that curiosity. (You’re in ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  'll be well on your way to staying warm on a budget. Maybe you'll even ... ?"   I'm glad you asked!  As a lifelong Californian before I went to ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  weekly/monthly spike in deadlines, I get a continuous flow of work. The ... (try “Science, Technology, and Public Policy”). I don’t get to turn in ... and a fancy tea selection. I have priority to get into the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member ... effort to update me on the project via Skype when I was in England and has

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to ... it occurs to me that Dentist and Nurse are probably involved in some ... also cannot feel.) This year, as opposed to last year when I was a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007