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• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  order to satisfy my identity as a shy-smart-nerdy-pants-girl. I truly don ... capabilities, so I felt the need to subscribe to a stereotype. But here at MIT ... need to set a lot of standards and find your balance multiple times. ew

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world ... substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So ... Walsh--a nuclear expert who's traveled to both Iran and North Korea (fun

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  actually, there’s just so much to do. In a literal sense, there are so many ... does being a Muslim woman impacted your day-to-day life? “I think the ... the hijab at the age of 8, very much clueless as to what it meant in a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  . They need to find a way to bring students in who otherwise would be ... to out-of-state private universities. These stories, I think, give a ... a trail for other students and earned a scholarship to a prestigious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  紐約與我

  

  （三年級我們在醫院實習）都沒有照什麼相片。可是我倒是照了這一張。有一天晚上近七點時，我們搞了一天的事務，都非常的累。突然，搬運工送來了一檯”智慧白板“ （Smart Board，就是螢幕與白板合一）。我們好興奮地把插頭插上，開始享用這個白板。當插上後狐狸歌 (WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY ... 。我非常喜歡這個雕藝，因為我覺得它代表的紐約的多元，紐約的活力，與紐約的活潑。對我來說，這是最恰當的比喻。 2. 今年我和我的女朋友參加紐約的萬聖節遊行。當天晚上真是非常的難忘，路上好幾萬的紐約客盛裝打扮，愉悅飲酒，好不快樂。最近我讀了海明威 "A

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate ... it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... their time. (You don't need links to find out what types of cool things ... came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this ... /weekend (maybe both, I’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend). Just kidding ... -country takes the better part of a day out of you. News to me, as this was my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... Pass/No Record. And then I went to a party at my frat. Hey, want to come ... . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  hours? We listened to the keynotes — one by a startup making smart ... .  Washed with so much new information, it was difficult at first to find a ... A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  say mit is only as hard as you want it to be. that is a lie, but so is ... true, but that doesn't mean you have to make a hasty one. then again ... i thought mattered to me turned out not to matter as much. there are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  . It's virtually impossible to summarize yourself in a few paragraphs ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT ... "Activities" section is to capture a glimpse of you outside of what you look

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  year, because you only need to miss a few PE classes to fail one. Also ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes ... schools. I want to lay out some basics about what you might want or need to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  're working on devising a federal bill to regulate smart city transportation ... ; What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through ... 've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to ... 't have to listen to how embarrassing I sound? Well, I'm trying to make a ... hearkens to the etymology of the word amateur—someone who does something out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  smart enough to get into MIT for their college years? I've always been a ... -old's high school. We were there to listen to a presentation about a new ... the academics that he doesn”t feel much affinity for otherwise. It was a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT ... talked a little bit about trees. As you know, they grow from seeds, much ... does that huge increase in mass come from? I want to hear your answers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  .” (It turned out we had to make a pros and cons list with the two halves ... online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough ... people reading this can understand this experience to some level: a missed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I applied to ... ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in ... thing I’m a blogger) and I can take hours to write a paragraph (<

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018