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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take ... world around us, created by a different wiring and development of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  miraculous by definition, I sometimes wonder — what does it mean to be a human ... have much to learn from the world around us. My friends and I joke that ... means to be an individual, as a lichen is not one being, but two: a fungus

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  needed to take part in a challenge to motivate myself to explore new ... 's gone, time has slowed to a crawl. my area issued a shelter-in-place until ... [/annotation] to spend time. i once again need multiple creative outlets to feel

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  for Hasbro so I need to find time for that. Oh, and did I mention that ... worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely ... much? Yes methinks, back to tooling . . .

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... help us to determine if a student is a good match for MIT like creativity

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... weren't explicitly forbidden (and because who'd want to piss off such a ... good things" goes, but you can't deny that he's super smart. Maybe just a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  't want to listen to other people worry that a 770 means they're not smart ... the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities ... become a blog-worthy experience. (Seriously, Conner 2 people are going to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  asked good questions to narrow them down. I settled on writing a piece ... come up with the right details to describe a character, small things that show what they do and what they think, the space they create in a scene

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  latter are a little stressed out. They are all wide-eyed as they try to ... my pizza horizons - I used to be a strictly mozzarella, or mozzarella ... my class: a dozen, maybe, or more. People want to learn about what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  edu with the new update Anything else I need to do?????? B R E A T H E ... as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... mid-year/semester grades. Do I need to do anything else? YES YA STILL

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  of progress has been made, but there's still quite a bit left to create ... some 8 blocks and you need to somehow make it look like a bedroom. Lots ... location before a Minecraft Map of that area could be created. Trying to draw

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  style is flexible enough to suit your diverse academic needs (spoiler: it ... years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... innovation and the future. Certainly it isn't a bad thing to have respect for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  Avenue (living in East Campus, the closest dorm to classes, we have a ... , but he fell asleep and said he had too much work to do.   Frozen yogurt ... stormed off to Red Mango by myself, and I had a wonderful opportunity to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  a database to track upkeep of safety equipment, and creating ... 's. Having a couple backup wi-fi spots could be just what you need to keep your ... you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  THINK (a super cool program that high schoolers should apply to!! Deadline ... lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... major. 6-9 is a very flexible major: you can decide to focus on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any ... The first-year application fee is $75, payable online with a credit ... application fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... lived in the dorm, which is a hard truth to internalize. how did only a few months in a building I won't return to for years influence my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most daunting challenges. From addressing the energy needs of tomorrow to improving cancer therapies, MIT’s research efforts are enhanced through
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  Great Concavity and I need to mask outdoors as well as indoors today my ... woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? MIT ... decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023