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• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway ... the programs included in the "Kerberos for Windows" package for other ... 's not get too crazy just yet. That's another topic for another day. In

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  , and we'd be dancing in complete silence. the inspiration for this ... I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... excited to have the opportunity to create choreography in an academic

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... provide help to his peers than to ever ask for help. In this way, he became ... dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  once a year they gather for a conference. This year's conference was in ... more about options for international students. Coming in, I knew about the six schools that are known for admitting international students in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  Graduate Program in Science Writing; another was Caroline Mak '18, who had ... events centered around prominent election issues and candidate debates. As ... almost inescapable. I wanted to increase opportunities for the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip inspired by a friend's wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday ... Asia sometime in the future). Thailand The first stop was Thailand. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  . It's working fine for me today, so hopefully that issue has been ... Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello. Having been out for a week I ... today as if it were still 1/1 - and no, you won't be penalized for being a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  dough for Loaf #3 chillaxed in the fridge for two and a half days in hopes ... parents' computer to mine-detonators in remote Third World countries. When I ... -secret military agent whose patriotic duty was to sit in front of a CRT monitor and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  one. We love rice cookers here in the blogs, and for good reason. First ... not really a recipe, in as much as it is an idea for what things you can ... . If you're living in a cook-for-yourself community, chances are there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... cake at Downtown Crossing, before driving back to campus in time for a ... , now that you're out in it. And thank you, Daniel, for the adventure.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  issues and all), whether my thesis is feasible for an undergrad to do in ... for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... 's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  likely for others. Therefore, I feel a sense of duty in debunking my own ... into an Oscar-winning screenplay, eligible for a Nobel Prize in ... , looking for inspiration in the ordinary along the way. Then I sit down to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  specific in mind I'm looking for. So I started using the Libby library app ... (i.e., in class while my teachers were talking...) I started reading less around the time I started high school, when paying attention in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  commencement address for the Class of 2008, as well as a response in the opinions ... students to study and design technology for developing communities in ... terrible excuse for a blogger if I didn't throw in a word or twelve about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me ... little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of ... should ally with Lessig or Valenti in the interminable copyfight. Nor is it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your ... I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  an engineer or veterinarian in London in my apartment for 1 and some ... bench in Amsterdam as I complete my thesis for my Media Studies degree ... indicative of a deeper issue, but we'll save that for another blog. Regardless

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  , even with the 20% plugged in for the first test I had missed while in 8 ... took a physics class in high school but it was more hands on and not AP, nothing that could prepare me for MIT physics. There should have been

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008