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• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  make assumptions about applicants. At the Harvard Admissions Institute ... on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented ... "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  notes during class. SLP is a tough, no nonsense master of productivity ... version of Massachusetts. [caption id="attachment_103501" align ... , times a thousand. That’s probably the amount of hate that my phone feels

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  should be at least one electron in one of the orbits, with a squiggly line ... of grass at night, staring into nothingness. They look contemplative ... classroom, watching her teacher at the front of the room draw on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  group of students at a secluded New England college; it’s filled with ... Vonnegut is my dad’s favorite author, so we have plenty of his books at home ... Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... into the running and here I am at MIT. Yes, selection is a huge part of ... to look at all components of your application and try to holistically

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  about 15-20 minutes. Every day, at least one hour out of the many that I ... sleep at night. And I don't get much out of it. One hour spent and very ...   Let's review a concept taught in the lowest levels of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  wanted to move. At around 1 AM, we finally got out of the hot tub, shivered ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... Taken a Math Class at MIT) See, I wanted to write a post on stuff I ... started exploding into a bunch of craziness and hoohah) that I had no

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  taking my keys out of my pocket and looking at my recently ... every moment of my life at MIT—that’s just setting myself up to be ... of a pset), the situation isn’t any different. It’s a brand new, red

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of ... . The cheapest hot item is a Cup of Noodles, which is free at MIT if you ... at something in the distance. I join them, curious to see the source of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  ’m part of the ohms, and we performed for the high schoolers at cpwacc last ... improvement, and because of this they’re one of the communities at mit that i ... about my music knowledge that all happened at the end of high school

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and on stage here at MIT. This is an important goal as many of the ... and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... the ones), intimidates the part of my brain that has suffered through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  do the first four miles at the [annotation note="for some definition of ... small falls on the [annotation note="more of a creek at this point ... . Most of my willpower is focused on moving myself forwards, one step at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Skloot I want to read at least 12 books by the end of the summer ... about it right now, I’d at least say that it’s a kind of spread ... . It’s very relevant, to me at least, because she touches on a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  leave of absence at the end of it. In January of 2013, I had no income, no ... entire school year.) Besides a global pandemic, at least three decent memes, and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  both, even though they’re capped at 15 [annotation note="the number of ... true. Admissions looks at a lot of different factors. You don’t need to ... most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... its end, my level of excitement at the prospect of MIT grew. I felt I ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  of the faculty and students at MIT, and you can be a part of it! ... Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  stopping at a drugstore and buying a map of Boston. After a quick map viewing ... exciting tourist attraction of the day. Quick, just by looking at the picture ... at the top of the hill. Ok, time to listen to the blog comment and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008