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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  nice to live in a more relaxed East Campus in the previous months. I ... fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in Cambridge, MA, but a soothing one in the suburbs. That was a night the cicadas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the ... , try to take another oboe player (why is the example admissions officers ... to campus to make the case in person. Send us ridiculous items or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  mentors; it's hard to look them in the eye. This weekend, my team is ... is just as valuable as having the practical skills entailed in that ... before finally converging on the correct method to saw in a straight line

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  posts in the shower, dreaming of the day I could apply to be an admissions ... in the fall), and hallways of the Infinite. I felt courageous enough to ... . When you arrive on campus in the fall, prepare to be hosed. Then plan an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  correction The gamma correction is what your computer applies to an image, in ... explanation is in the next section. If you ARE familiar with it, skip ahead ... = Green In other words, blue is the absence of yellow, red is the absence

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a ... outside in the pouring rain without an umbrella carrying my box, tried to ... wet pavement in the rain, as I tried to catch my breath, collect the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  reel across the country to help prospectives understand the place. But what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The ... , professors describing the goal of the MIT education as to "combine, in perhaps

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  experience. The week ahead (our last one!) is short, but we still have much ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  mechanisms as the powerful outflows in the most distant and much more massive ... in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning ... times closer to the black hole than previously thought; they see in better

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  I think the advice that has helped me the most is the advice from ... sooner. David D. '17 You're coming to MIT, one of the best universities in ... comfortable with the fact that I didn't know much and was more ready to ask for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  . Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what ... mattered. Embracing the unknown is always hard. But it's good to practice ... , please breathe, relax, and ground yourself. If the emotions become too much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  W. '16, is a project that explores the modern fad in personal ... When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an ... time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  'll start seeing more blogs from them in the days/weeks/months/years to come. In the meantime, I want to thank everyone who applied to be a blogger ... Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  over the last week. I have so much to say and so much to remember, but I just wanted to capture this feeling for now before I fill in the details ... with sorrow and enlightenment and the realization that there is so much

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  Controls or Structures seemed like the most utterly romantic thing to do in ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... learned in the previous units. After I finished the test, I wandered to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp. Happy. And that above is mostly how I felt. Then I went back to Mc ... notes in the mountains. The vegetation here is different. I know the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... amount of block you have. One of the biggest lessons I learned in ESP is the importance of a program's logistics. Back in high school, I used to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  crushingly sad but also inspiring; I resolved to make the most of my remaining ... —preemptively, at that—is nothing but painful. The seniors got to experience four ... impromptu schedule for the next few days that would enable us to spend as much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  Good Memories -This year, I seemed to find new friendships in the most ... shower curtain there. (In the future I aim to meet the most brainrotted ... originally chose this class because I wanted to be in [annotation note="The

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025