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• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  've done a lot of work for as part of my UROP. But it's good to get a formal ... internship into a full time return offer"]*the year*[/annotation] to get an ... watching out for me here in getting me this job. Although I really wanted to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and ... providing more than 1,500 3D printers and kits as part of a drive to ensure ... Chevron, which is announcing a $10 million commitment to the Fab Foundation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action ... in EA. That's a small number, but to be honest so is the number of RA ... you're going to get another fair shot. Bloggers who were deferred and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of ... well. We want to see that students are involved in things because they
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  and showed up to exactly one meeting, in which a crowd of student ... noticed a box of books in one of the hallways. To be precise, the box of ... -hearted person in the MIT Financial Services department sends out a mass email to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  burned the midnight oil already, you’ll get to hear a couple of my thoughts ... it a chance to succeed is better than doing nothing. Lucky for me in ... curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the ... , otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the ... as a student at MIT. Got back to GHAMAS to set up for the Hartford

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  amazing to see him in person. He is a fellow at Gonville and Caius College ... Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... University). The term “punting’ in MIT lingo means to relax, chill

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  problem, and find a new way in getting to where you want to be. It is true ... believe in "this too shall pass," but I hope you will be able to find your ... you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  myself. in terms of tracking music, I was too lazy to develop a rating ... -genres I love. the music I listened to this year was more diverse in a lot of ... in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. ET. To view the live stream, click on this link and type in the password: mit-covid. Miss a class? You’ll be able to view a ... Course 7 is making this resource available to the public in real-time and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  ) CPW is this week, so if you’re a prefrosh you’re likely going to be ... . There’s a lot of them. On the plus side, it really motivates you to add your own posters etc. to your room. 3) No river. This is also a minor

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  a box (poor tweets). You might not be able to see them in all browsers ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so ... will make me more accessible as a blogger and give me a way to post even

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  Point in a couple of days (this one) and I plan on trying to clean my room/get ... is in the video, I guess, so I present to you what a spastic spider bot ... . We used mills to drill holes in some polystyrene brackets, and we

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  faculty separately to assess the state of the department. Your feedback is vital to this process. If you are interested in participating please respond to this e-mail with your name and your year. In the case of too many

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  really want to be in a music group, or if you tend to get really nervous at ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... them. I knew I didn’t stand a chance of getting in, but I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  /rock genre and now writes and records a few songs each month. In addition to ... usually gets a sneak preview before Joey posts his songs to Youtube for the ... Charles river. In addition to excelling in his coursework, Joey happens to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp ... fast enough to win $400 in. time passes. yannick, who was in cj's pod ... looking at all the games on that shelf earlier, when i wanted to play a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023