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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  program changed their life. Nobody had to convince me. I spent most of the ... of course, he should do it. And then I started to think about the kids ... specter of environmental destruction. Concourse aims to prepare the top

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of ... 't really the point of this. It was to read 5 new books, but I think I'll give ... to track my spending. Own 5 designer items by the end of the year

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  . Being in the middle of nowhere also means there is relatively little to do ... Quick, what does an atom bomb, the plural form of a famous Texas ... the word "Superconductor" leaves you with an image of the world's lamest

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of ... issues like these, but I think one of the most important things is to ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  to the 3rd floor lounge tripled due to the stepping-over of crowds of ... -meta-puzzle allows you to run around wildly on campus in search of the hidden item ... game turned out to be checkers. Every piece of the board game (pawns

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  asking a bunch of people what the color of each ball is to get a consensus ... color of each ball in the process i want to prove to my friend that ... ’s possible to prove a wide variety of claims in zero knowledge (the technical

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  these experiences with the overbearing hand of hindsight, to claim that ... wouldn't carry out the rest of my career in the same manner. I want to work ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  need today, and the determination to take full advantage of it. Through ... valuable — in fact, will be of core value to the economy that will reward innovation. And, of course, the investment will continue to pay off not only

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  important part of your application, since you have the chance to open up about ... applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice ... a wheelbarrow full of salt, I remind myself of the wise words of My So

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  week of symposia that is free and open to the public and organized by ... in the Sloan School of Management who is using an algorithm to help ... said. It went something like this: Smart is just the tip of the iceberg

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the prehistoric year of 2015 when college decisions were delivered not through the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of ... words the feeling of being surrounded by so many other people trying to ... began to feel hopeful. For one of the first times in my life, I stopped in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... different interesting events happening at all hours of the day that I want to ... shock for this reason. I'm the kind of person who is used to saying yes to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that ... about the students' choices. With all respect to these students, I ... with the results. You decide where to apply and, ultimately, where to

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  least if I go by the frequency of kicks to my ribcage during my physiology ... daughter, and as far as I know, she’s the first of Blogger Generation 2.0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a higher level of rigor than i’m used to the other day i called a stranger ... to new basketball plays in fractions of a second. it turns out the kind

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  the past month (classes here start early January) and will return to MIT for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... won't be able to have that with some of my friends anymore. for the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking ... .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of ... was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  artists would be much more inspired by the challenges of Seamless smart ... . And of course, thank you to the MIT Office of the Arts and their Arts ... put on by the Museum of Science. Co-produced by Amanda Parkes from the

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  India, the Cycle Ventures students are looking to implement some of the ... to measure the amplitude of a triangle wave and its derivative. We ... . Frame Redesign: After a week of measurement and calculation, the frame

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012