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• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  proudly brought it to school, got up in front of the class, and spent thirty ... that I got up and didn't say anything at all. Elsewhere in the spacetime ... McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville, VA, for their first public

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  signed up for an audition slot for Cabaret. In the four weeks of IAP ... —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of ... flips the story on its head in a totally unexpected, fucked-up manner. But

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  the power button lighting up for a few seconds and dimming again. I ran ... through my email when I saw the subject line “Decision made for ….’ flash in ... had been rejected for a number of opportunities earlier that week, so I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars ... . for me, four classes (one of which is secretly like 1.75 classes), doing ... comes up and everything somehow gets a little bit worse, and i cut out one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  set up a meeting for the following afternoon. The next day, I showed up ... deliberation, all the conversations and requests for advice and frustration and ... temporary decision, for a couple of reasons: 1. More resources. You

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  need" and will pay for that. The rest is up to you. Your "demonstrated ... figured I should brush up on my statistics and refresh my memory about how ... guys! _____ The representative for Brown is starting off the evening

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  common for people to go the other way on the Red Line and end up in Harvard ... the new page be up? Also, are you doing this for free? I hope Ben is ... research for him for very little in the way of salary. So slave labor works

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  come up. It would’ve been disappointing for us to book housing and plan ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] the hotel cafe was cute. i brought up these donuts for Gosha ... France, and ended up in Spain. Because I was asleep, I don’t remember much

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  for orientation and checking up on living accommodations. And she has ... to develop the Uno, set up a web site and filed for patents in several ... 4. "Once he started reading, it just opened up the entire world for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  , would my friends and I have woken up at 4:00 am to drive for 4 hours to ... This post is very very delayed, for which I plead procrastination on ... transformed.  The moment was ephemeral. For totality, the difference between 99

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  , most of the tools would end up damaging the scarves in some way. For ... of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... tools for characterizing materials. What if I just used one of those tools

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  /lab-based 3.032 (Mechanical Behavior of Materials). For some courses, the platform is the main source of learning. For others, it allows a blend of ... for online problems Charts and diagrams to connect class topics and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... .  Look, there's a reason I'm writing for MIT Admissions and not Vogue

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... -off for the summer months. I just got back from Alaska. More on that (with ... apply. As per usual, we will primarily be looking for incoming freshman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  's name for its EECS department) lets students work at companies and use that work as material for a Master's thesis. The companies can be right ... after their Junior year working for the company, getting a feel for the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  any questions since she's in the MEng masters program, which is only for ... except for the computer major, the MIT undergraduate students aren't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  where you use Arduino to code up a control algorithm for a motor on a ... . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... for any instance of the problem? We need something concrete acts as an

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  floors like mine with strong communities, being split up for two years ... panic about our living situations for the next few months. My perspective ... days so that I’d have no regrets. For context, I live in Burton

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  . Sure, making up prior work was scary, but the deadlines for that passed ... the ear buds. Dimmed cabin lights are perfect for introspection. My ... August. I messed up at times. Looking ahead, I can imagine few famously

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... own feel for how you will do at MIT.  Sure, it's nice to maybe meet up ... Victoria will be staying with me!!!   Although Victoria and I planned for me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013