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• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... have a major in economics?” I’m going to be like “dude, why didn’t you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  can use to either self-study or supplement your learning in a class. All ... different modular pages. Features a ton of templates to help you get started ... graph equations in 2D or 3D to get a better understanding of how different

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the ... intergenerational in a way that the day-to-day blogs can never be, by the very nature ... to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a ... “getting in” to the point that it somehow became the center of my daily

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I ... navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to ... ...or at least attempting to, and having its innards spray all over me in a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  school, that I'd wake up in a dorm in this school, I'd go to class and ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... a year ago might've talked to different people in the companies he was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  investigating in the paper, and a description of how you're going to investigate ... to behave in a way that scaffolds children's creative behavior. My ... my grad student to include in her thesis (oops), so after a while, she

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  we’re now in a study group together. I feel like I’ve been able to get ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... : Reading and Writing Short Stories is an incredibly difficult class to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... a night multiple nights in a row if I needed to get an assignment done ... four days in a row to finish a 6.005 coding pset. After taking two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you’re ... Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  Science to Student Life, the best way to get free food and every tangent in ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... 't click further than the Notable Alumni page to see a good number of people

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  , and my day to day thoughts while in Ethiopia into a single, coherent ... post is too short--rather, even if I were told to sit down and write a ... conversation in a library was going to become real. Our contacts we met through

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... to be a sounding board and copilot in those years. Matt and I also

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  . I drive an orange 2005 Nissan Murano, which is to say a short, squat ... thousands of dollars, as much or more than the day-to-day cost of living in a ... Madrid, I went to work on a farm in the south of Spain. It was owned by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  description of the Diskworld from the first page of The Colour of Magic: In a ... a vacation to the moon in a homemade rocket in A Grand Day Out with ... .875 ceiling tiles in each of the three showers; outside the showers we have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  you can too. Many more will be able to in just a short while. And before ... macgyver were an idiot) hack with cardboard and batteries to get around a faulty voltage regulator in a protoype before demo session; pitching to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Some Advice Sometimes I wish I could tell freshman-me that everything's going to be okay

  

  scribble down quotes that inspire you. You're going to change a lot in a very ... you could get involved in. Not to mention classes. College will be a ... world may seem fast-paced, but don't be in a rush. You're allowed to be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  were convinced i wouldn't get in and forcibly tried to not make a big ... minutes before I could get the page to load. Oh yeah, my mother screamed. I ... a lot of fun. In the car on the way home I pulled out my phone to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  that you won’t get a response to your e-mail (more on this later), you ... hear a knock at your bedroom door. You open it to find a Nobel Prize ... ’m bored”), or why it is you’re interested in a particular area of research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it ... was a bit different from this year's. There were two short answer

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009