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• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  afraid to speak up and talk to people. Ever heard of the elevator pitch? The idea is that you happen to be in the same elevator as the CEO and ... professional social network and is a good way to maintain a network Rule No. 5

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize ... , and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives are to build awareness and support of disobedience-robust work being

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? MIT students ... , and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  , because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... breakfast, while my brother and I groggily walked to the kitchen. I liked it ... liked to put sugar in it, and my mother drank it like soup, with layou and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  projects can be driven by a student’s passion and energy to explore their ... 's really good and you should go read it. If you want to learn more about what went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  -May, once we know how many students have enrolled and thus, how many more ... questions about the wait list, refer to this post for some helpful tips and ... email to admissions [at] mit [dot] edu with your name and Application ID

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be ... smarter to sleep and get some efficiency back. I also got so inefficient with my work, and so sleep deprived, that the obvious solution to me was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  creates its own design specific to your class year. Then they reveal the ... to come pick up their rings. The Class of '09 Ring Delivery was held last Thursday, and while I'm not big on getting dressed up, semiformal

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  to MIT students generally and first-years like me. Since starting this fall, it’s been an interesting yet exhausting process to learn about and ... clubs has made it hard to discern what I want to join and commit myself to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  before you were admitted? If so, please advice me on how to do that (and ... the answers. I used to save up questions and answer a bunch of them at ... Athletics Fair and introduced myself to the field hockey coach and added my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  applying to scholarships. Continued knitting, and art-ing, and practicing ... instead as motivation to excel. This is really vague and you may not know ... after being deferred, that's great, and we hope to see you on campus! But

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  from ocean engineering to aeronautics, there's something exciting going on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to write about in one paragraph, so check out their site and explore what our
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  total confidence or none at all, they’d switch to English immediately and ... . Near the city center, a woman came running up to me and asked: “Español? Ingles?” I said yes to ingles, my Spanish was old and rusty. But she kept

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  month, we traveled to the Boston and Springfield Planned Parenthood health ... staff and my fellow Youth Advocates were amazing to work with. And today the Youth Advocates got to share final thoughts and feelings. We went

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  once, but twice, and I love them so much. If I had the time, I might ... – How to Save a Life and Reese Lansangan – No Snow, both mentioned 2 times ... known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  ; it was a bit traumatizing and I forgot to document the process, but it ... dot tells us to start the motor, and the second dot tells us to switch ... positions of cue dots and to find (and fix) bad splices. We check for cue

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  sticks, and Gatorade, nothing seems to be working. Funny part of it is that ... Update #1 (1:40 PM) Currently in 13-4101 trying to solve our first puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  . Once you register on MyMIT, you will be ready to begin the application process and it’s not too early to start. You’ll want to do a few ... . You have plenty of time to do this and I think you’ll find the

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  rooms you have right now are completely temporary and you do not have the power to decide whether you will stay in them or not. This does not ... black macbook to write my entry. I, of course, have to add MIT content to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks ... 'd keep and what you'd change. I'd also love to know what you feel is

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005