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• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of ... find coding events on campus, whether self-learning or learning to make a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  't need to tell you that MIT is very different from all other schools. A ... us? Not much, I'm off to bed. But Marilee has a new post for you ... individual level as much as possible. Marilee feels that delivering a decision

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr ... weekend, that'll be 500+ snapshots. Seems like a pretty cool way to live ... 'll need to confirm that you're really who you say you are, of course, so if

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  House to join President Obama talk about clean energy research (video ... a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course ... , so they're going to ticket the event by invitation only with a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie ... 50mm lenses on 35mm cameras, creating a natural angle similar to human ... also a great reminder that there's so much beyond MIT to explore.

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  hammer to create a certain bend, how to heat just the part you wish to bend ... on a curve to get a certain bend, how much to let the metal cool before ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  how much effort I put into my classes, I can't seem to get a result that ... , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  event called Splash, in which pretty much anyone can volunteer to teach a ... Munroe does more than draw comics: he recently published a book ... happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... , and they too weren't able to finish their (pretty much fully completed ... impart to you in one post. If you are a current MIT student reading this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  didn't spend much time listening to music, she listened to a diverse ... internet to judge (and help you take a break from thinking about those ... . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  've been rediscovering a lot of beauty which I wanted to share a glimpse of ... dedicated to doing a bunch of random projects and learning activities. The goal is to make a community for students to get creative outside of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  FJo What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? The best representatives ... to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in ... of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to communicate what being a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  conspicuously absent for a very long time because he does not want anyone to find ... ’ve already written several. C: Doesn’t it? It does to me, a little bit. The ... media images and how brands did it. Then we had to create our own goals

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... mood lately and want to do nothing but lie on a beach reading all day for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  creates a product that calls for yet another decision to be made. And that ... . People told me a lot of things. About how I need to take care of myself ... down with a friend and catch up to be able to do a pset. I need to blow

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of ... does the reading process work, you ask? I'll take the folders one at a ... to the entire Admissions Committee to make a decision on (more on this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  -filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the ... "]Miami.[/annotation] Instead, we came up with a somewhat unorthodox plan: we'd fly to New Orleans, spend a couple of days there, then rent a car and drive from Louisiana to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  a normal mit, and i didn't want to spend one and a half more. it ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of ... , don't want to expend mental energy ticking things off that aren'

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  building a mini-Sukkah (MIT's is currently up on Kresge Oval, thanks to ... am I going to do? Steal it from a high school? Saturday afternoon ... With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  because of COVID. As a result, I really need to be working on building up my ... hang out there, feel free. And if you need a sign to know that you are doing good enough, here it is! I think a lesson we all need to learn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020