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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In ... yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  ball, on the other hand, is a ball only held at the end of the academic ... Photographer taking the survivor photo at St John's Another great perk of ... who helped me overcome many obstacles during my first two years of MIT. At

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  depicts the emotion of NOT HAVING IT… because I most certainly was not at ... one of my friends Charlotte M. 20’ was presenting at!!! Good thing there ... sure that at least that part of our presentation got heard! All of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  Cape Cod, not-so-pretty shots of mac and cheese, an attempt at a ... I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I ... is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  make the choice between enrolling at MIT or one of our similarly ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  'll just lecture at you, and you'll just be another face in a sea of 200 ... Simmons) pay $300 at the beginning of a semester to help keep the dining ... students who qualify for the SAT waivers, which can be used at good number of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  . ----- After 5+ years at MIT Admissions, I’ve accumulated quite a lot of mileage ... Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... adults. Former Director of Admissions Matt forced me to practice driving as

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors ... that the road ended so abruptly -- a two-hour Zoom call at the end of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... also has a host of other talents): Now, take a look at this ... girl, since I kind of gave that away) wins. 5: At the pumpkin drop, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  asleep at the end of the day was hard and waking up in the morning was even ... even at a time of social distancing and fear, humanity is real:  MIT ... this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  easier to you than it does to for others at MIT. A lot of you may have come ... off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken ... . There may be an onslaught of information bursting toward you like an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... 'm super proud of this mural. Before MIT I would have said I wasn't at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  about the comfort of knowing there's at least one thing out there that I ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... that first taste of intrinsic change, using the time at home to reflect ... was academics. It was the feeling of running freely and openly at MIT to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... the end of classes. I teared up at the Black graduate celebration, at ... felt instinctively like "family". Students and donors at a table of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  myself looking at dozens of issues over dozens of years, digging through ... efforts were necessary, because at the time, a smaller proportion of ... recommendation of a committee that parties be shut down at 1 AM, which I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  location would be a great change of scenery. I could see myself being at home ... decision process has at least given me a vague idea of what I don’t want to ... DAVE: there are a lot of times where i dont feel like im at all living up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  . Alden Thresher, the inaugural Director of Admissions at MIT, noted the ... fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... demonstrations at the Florida Capitol and the White House, as well as meetings with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  ready at the same time. Everyone has a spell hand of around 3 to 4, and ... One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023