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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college ... telling you to shut your parents or counselors out of the process entirely ... things and the act of someone else rewriting your essay for you to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  the projects I liked. I like to think of myself as a reflective person ... example of this. My motivation on the project was pure: I need to make this ... parts of myself, with "parts of myself" referring to the things that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  completely, landed on the side of my foot, and limped away while trying to play ... be able to play ten more years of soccer at the time was if I was ... motivator to push through the pain of every workout, to hold my plank for just

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... :20,” (end stop) to “The last sentence of Dostoevsky’s White Nights was ... Europe to be farmed for fur, and when the furs went out of style the nutria

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to ... anosmia, up until they were asked to describe the scent of a peach for ... church over the span of a week. To be a full-fledged member of the church

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... any day of the week. This left me more time to work on graduate ... fan of it because it's not remotely sweet or minty enough to earn the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... 18 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, painted by ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us ... the big interests of the lab is to figure out which genes cause neural ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  the related literature. ALL of it. Read it in depth and pay attention to ... , since it took a lot of effort and time to truly master the most productive ... learning how to problem-solve, to learning how to communicate the results of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent ... 'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... stood in front of the bathroom mirror similing to myself for 20 seconds in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  cultured to the term “Ivy League” or anything of that sort. I knew nothing ... CollegeConfidential links to angst-filled posts covering the spectrum of ... of the prestigious UniPenn (!). To begin, I feel like the resources the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  investigating in the paper, and a description of how you're going to investigate ... to yours; your research is standing on the backs of giants ... to know the kinds of research people are doing in your field, and the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  years. Many of them are also filled to the brim with anxieties about ... GIR, and, of course, the overall decision to pursue an MIT education in ... of this advice is not that your intent necessarily matters to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to ... having developed the ability to make this kind of judgment. I know I ... decision making process of where I was going to the degree that I am today

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  in participation compared to years past. It's the golden era of ... the surprise of many. After all, a writing team needs to make so many ... might be to generate hype. In the past, the extent of "hype-building", if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year ... at the start of each term appealing to the school for their project to ... requirements) are able to train other students and/or monitor the use of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  into long pants and close-toed shoes and head down to the basement of ... of the demonstration pieces was a two-tined fork, and I decided to try ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  the 8K (7680×4320!!!) display in the corner to the quality of the food ... course, it was time to fly to drone. Unfortunately, half of the fun of ... out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015