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• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  ask for complete strangers on the Internet to assess their likelihood of ... does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... probably the least important part of an application to MIT. Not that numbers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion ... something is the right thing to do, and this is one of them. And if you make ... "how to be old, for young people." Incidentally, part of the talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  interactions could lead to the development of better treatments for ischemic ... drop out of my time either. The summer is a great opportunity to rest and ... Israel forever. It's really neat now to have a mental image for many of the

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  areas of science and deeply resent the idea of having to specialize, and ... , and directly relevant to society. I figured that the importance of ... and rising physicists and still want to go into the same kind of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about ... of the future into a terrifying one. 2 So I try to pick apart what ... want to say that the future scares me. But how can I be scared of

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... , this deal is too good to pass up. Research. I mentioned one of the ... semester training a neural network to track and cluster the movements of mice

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... to soak in the weather, thread bits of yarn through warp and weft, and ... hear about the mundanities and excitements of their daily lives (and to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... from a line of rope that stretches from the tower on the left to the ... ”) Center. Hackers have played to the strengths of the unique physical

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... ’s the right way to teach the product design process. At the beginning of ... the motions aren't up to my standards of smoothness; additionally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  here. It’s tempting to be nearsighted and to focus on the immediacy of ... . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  the rest to follow are courtesy of the Tech photographers (who have more ... ! After the ceremony, I met up with my family and we went to a couple of ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  when I’d never had to make compromises before, the dissolution of my ... . My depression made it a struggle to step one foot outside of the dorm ... -November. I barely said anything to my online friends. Then the eeriness of my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  . I started having thoughts to the effect of “everyone else is already ... people, and the gist of what I would optimally do is to convert the ... money to give in exchange.” It’s dehumanizing subsets of people to the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  drop the right one. The feeling of failure that comes when you’re used to ... June, while in the heat of preparations of coming to school, I had to ... stepping out of the haze of classes and exams and taking time to look at the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  a large folder of drafts, so I had to publish the most polished piece ... from the fall semester, which itself was a sequel to three tales of ... , and discarded some of the darker paragraphs—not because I need to censor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the basement of Walker Memorial in 1960. The call letters were changed to WTBS ... 's seen the unpublished posts; I just keep changing the date and planning to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  , even though they are *unqualified* Let's cut to the core of the matter ... vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or ... mean the majority of applicants are sufficiently prepared to do the work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  : Dozens of enormous, frozen pumpkins are dropped from the top of the Green ... two of you set up a time to Skype. Mushiness also comes in cake form ... my head (with more of a "swoosh" than a bang.) The hat looked like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  up being useful - or at the very least informative - to most of the ... at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life ... tables and desks in the lobby of the Nano building were a great place to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you ... Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life   First

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021