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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  ’t know anyway. That election will be done, and the only purpose it will ... processes are, so I thought it would be good to engage the system I was ... , students across this state will have the opportunity to voice their opinion

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  acknowledged that at some point in the application process, you will be ... ; The point being: it's exhausting. The process, at least the first two ... the highly specific title in this post's tagline, they can be applied to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  " on July 3rd. This year will be the third year I've attended the Preview ... arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the Boston Pops is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  like the plague, so being willing to practice it is a huge first step ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  . The reading will be on Thursday, September 25, at 7:00pm in MIT's Kirsch ... student, I too found MIT's writing and literature courses to be among the ... (and MIT writing professor) Junot Díaz will open the Fall 2008 MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  have completed the processing of the materials submitted, I will post ... , it will be appropriate to send in an additional copy of this missing ... finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  defining book of my childhood Squids will be Squids. From there we have a ... 's zoom into some of the more interesting parts! On top we have a couple of props from my favorite movies/comics. The first shelf holds the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  (and will be coming back soon! c:) But now for the cute... the other day I saw this installation in the Infinite Corridor. (You can see me awkwardly on the side taking a picture; the camera's hiding my face. harhar

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  them, haven't you? Do the stats and titles make you want to be their ... every Saturday morning, you may not be on your own. Don’t read the “top ... your tale. May the muse be with you always! Your story is now part of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  :00 WEdnesday for Floor Rush. So basically every single freshman on campus will be ... and started to explain to the girl behind me what the picture would be ... pulley system he built. They were all discussing who would be the unlucky

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  ) of the CPW experience will be posted on an upcoming blog entry, in ... company of the MITblogs readership who would hardly be deterred by daunting ... sentence is to be interpreted literally in the context of “there's so many

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since ... because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i ... still important decisions up ahead, and some of the options will lead to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  -down lemonade will be served. Soon, I'll find myself using a hand drill for the ... for the rest of the year. Next week will be registration day, and I ... , that everything will be okay. That I won't regret the decisions I'll make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  .   This is still true for me; I hope it will be true for the Class of ... ,988 students will become graduates, turn their rat around, and join the global ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  material will help me in the future. I think my being a physics major has ... myself be bad at things, even if it sucks in the moment.   The only ... where I will sit in class and stare blankly at the board and wonder why I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  responsibility to articulate the transformative impact that they should be having ... other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world ... I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  2034 we'll be able to go back to "The Future of Work" and say the same ... When I was in high school one of the most influential non ... "). This landmark book provides profiles of the inner work life of hundreds

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  needs. What is leadership? Some say that it’s being the president of a ... infinite. As a member of the Residence Hall Government, you will have the ... dinner at the Gray House, home of President Hockfield where students will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  be going about 145 knots to land in this plane". Lower the landing gear ... .  But I have and will tell you about life here, and why you shouldn't be ... You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  scores in the Part II, but note that we ask for "Date taken (or to be taken ... scores sent to us by the testing agencies. Please be sure to have the ... matching the scores to the application. All that being said, it's a good idea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007