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• Blog / Admissions

  Fantasy Feast Fantasy foods and costumed friends.

  

  Yesterday evening Random Hall residents prepared a CPW fantasy feast. Below are some of my beautiful costumed friends and some of the food they prepared, photographed by the amazing YQ ‘16. The foods highlighted in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  Today, most of the IAP robotics competitions begin to wrap up ... has been staying up until all hours of the night trying to refine his ... -100 after exiting lab and found the lecture hall in a standing room only

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  of how important basic science has been applied for the benefit of man ... (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... university I attended, but he clarified he wanted to know where I was from. “I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  of Virginia to our neighbor Boston University, brought contingents as ... registration expenses. This coming season, NYU and University of Delaware are ... the rink, in and out of the classroom, offer a social component to an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  so detached from the larger context of our universe. I hate the idea of ... false, because I got rejected from a lot of the colleges I applied to. I ... applied to MIT early action a year ago, and I really relate to one of Robo

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  interest us and apply those things to the creation of a short film. We just ... At the beginning of this semester, we were really unsure of what ... Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  banquet hall for the Nobel Prize Ceremony, is actually made of red brick ... I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into ... had already put enormous amounts of time and effort. All the national ... of times, when you're not frantically trying to say a too-early goodbye

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... course of my job of turning turkeys into oil, there are long periods of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... . While much of this advice is universal, YMMV with other schools for the ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  what people are afraid of. 3) For me, the best treatment was DISTANCE ... refreshing obsessively was masochistic and irrelevant to the outcome of the ... make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  , some of it along a highway. Honestly, Simmons Hall beats the outdoors ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail. Initiative was taken. Somewhere along the way, I got lost in a cyber-attic of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little about life outside of their parents' houses. Everything from how to clean ... totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  things of pure awesomeness. Each one of our 10 halls has an amazingly rich ... third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second ... and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011