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• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year ... people start to become super jaded. Have you gotten to that point yet?” I ... underclassman excitement, feeling tired and cynical, not bothering to remind

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep ... , traveling to Taxila, where roads and civilizations come together. A professor ... intimidated by the great scholar. Just last week the king had stood up to honor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my ... . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved math in high school, when I came to MIT, I became disillusioned both with

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies ... between their heads: a ~ sign, which means “is approximately equal to." The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the ... deadline, you are fine for EA. Storm: Due to the devastating snowstorm that ... still require you to submit the application by the normal deadline, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked MIT. I started to write a real answer but then realized that my laundry

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway, Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  to Nate and his friend Alicia*), I spoke with one high school senior ... opportunities to learn about nanotech. Given the vague definition of the term ... exposure to the field. I’ll try to give a brief overview of some nanotech

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about ... , when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the ... chance to staff BosMUN. Chairing aside, positions were primarily needed for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers ... with Professor Junot Diaz. I was inspired to take it by Nadja '07 and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  Harrisburg and moving them all into my room would motivate me more to start unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as possible. On my way home from Europe, I had to use a Swedish girl's scale

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  this one, however, we were using CAD (Computer-Aided Design) tools to ... Wednesday that I'd had to tool for, and I had already spent nearly four hours ... for those who needed it to receive it. Luckily, there were also friends

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this: you should probably not expect to marry the person you broke the ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  student entrepreneurship clubs and organizations. In addition to taking on roles to revamp the African Students’ Association, he was one of the first students to participate in MIT’s Sandbox initiative. Working with Sandbox

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  across the street to the media lab, where the DATA FOR BLACK LIVES ...  https://www.facebook.com/data4blacklives * * * i'm sad i won't be able to attend most of the panels. but i made it to the opening panel. here are some very incomplete

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... were literally quite impossible to do, with my limited orgo knowledge

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before ... before the pop-up, I got an email telling me I had been selected to attend

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness ... , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you’re painfully unaware of the world but slowly beginning to realize how little you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023