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• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  the Student Center (a building otherwise know as W20). It feels odd for ... . It was an interesting thing to watch. For, as you see, we have made ... decided that for our purposes that the long essay is obsolete... When you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman picture; once, at the end, for graduation; and once, halfway through, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  deadlines coming up quickly. All three are open exclusively to high school ... enrichment summer program for promising high school juniors who are interested ... entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored by the Center for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  all. Do not feel that you need to "clean up" your existing blog for us ... wish to be considered for an admissions blogging position, and we've made ... considered.) While the traditional schedule will remain true for this year

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  . Sure, I could accept responsibility for my own poor sense of direction, but I'd rather blame Google Maps for getting me lost on the way to my ... train for the 15-or-so passengers making the connection. So, I guess I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  garden insulates the building and offers a quiet haven for residents ... National Real Estate Investor reports that "a green building can pay for ... -filled apartments is quite steep. For $3000-4000 per month, you too can live in a one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  include great textbooks for gifted math students, an active and interactive forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems ... students for the purpose of exploring math. On the Saturday morning that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for ... 'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab for the rest of eternity. There are two things I consider to be the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  work for me this time. I grew up as an only child, so I thought that ... representative for SAAS(South Asian Association of Students), a member of the Mech ... Jenny> Don't Look Up by Adam McKay Nora> also Don’t Look Up

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  , comes up to me as I'm headed back to the tent for debrief, comes up to me ... . Unfortunately, I've picked up a new hobby that makes that second rule a little ... (standard name for the airport you skydive at) was about an hour away and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  . that i make time for like 6 hours of DnD every week. that i've taken up ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... enjoy the leftovers for many meals this week. [caption id

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  -speed telecommunications. I signed up for the class because I really enjoyed its ... If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class ... field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... background, and he delivered lectures on joinery, finishing, and casting. For ... time but not pick up many new skills, since I already had experience with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... . for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of ... who lived in burton-conner only lived there for a semester and a half

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  up for the quilt, but that night was a really great memory and belongs ... , and of course, Career Fair. These shirts pile up in your wardrobe slowly ... started slowly packing up my room again in November. At this point, I could

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  really were all written in one document but it didn't make sense for them ... spring, I learned what math was for computer scientists, as 6.042 brought ... and making screens light up like magic. Then I started to realize that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  table is up for grabs. In this case, my 119th birthday cake (it's not a ... On the day before my non-senior friends left for home, we went out on ... wonderful way to say goodbye for the summer. Speaking of friends, my best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  wait up for me. The bar had a catered event with free pizza, and it was a ... his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide ... they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of ... was a challenge of its own, though. Burton Conner was cook-for ... . cooking for myself, on the other hand, is easy, fun, and just better for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  draw a picture for a different prompt every day in October. This year ... exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write ... each poem was written to. I didn't manage to write for every single

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018