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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  ? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing ... eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... were going to be my maid of honor at my wedding, i thought we'd go on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  , at least superficially, that what I was doing was kind of insane ... . Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly ... energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... the video conferencing setup, with two of us at MIT, two of us at ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although ... school in Dalebrun, at the epicenter of the earthquake, to work with the ... kits to potentially teach some of the children at the school how to test

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  -picture view would be difficult. Luckily, that sort of thing is easy at MIT. I ... admissions site at the end of the Fall '05 semester, and learned about some ... . Even at that early stage, I could really tell he had all of his ducks in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  culture felt underwhelming and couldn’t improve my opinion of the place. at ... best fits and beaming at the camera. there’s always a lot of energy in ... valid to want to create and keep the best memento of your experience at

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  me at least, to think about the idea of this being a part of some story ... the end of the semester (or at least the end of some arc I can’t see yet ... year of settling into whatever “role” I play at MIT. For instance, since

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  out of the stud at 6am after pulling an all nighter during finals week ... supervisor a quick email: At exactly 9am the first day of Week 4, I dashed ... the skin of my teeth and sent my supervisor the final changes at 3:53pm

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

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  surgeon, but also good at all of these things too: she’s basically the ... After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  review, I'm deciding to be at home. I'm taking stock of the semester that ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  backseat of a lesser sized yellow overpriced mini beast until I arrived at ... do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... frats. I wasn't signed up to play, but at 7:30 one of our players told me ... , because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  the Year of the Dog. The celebration featured my favorite dog and admissions mascot, Evie Cummings. This initial photoshopping of Evie spawned ... 's blog, my colleague Joanne's dog Evie is somewhat of an office mascot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  , so so so many blog posts that talk about the tradition of the MIT brass rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to skip past that. As surreal as it feels, I've finished half of my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  Some of you may remember my blog entry Inside the Webcast Studio, which consisted of the following video: So what was that all about? We travel all over the country (and the world) here at MIT Admissions. And

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  hosting an event at the International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF ... in on all of the details soon. Relatedly, I will also be doing a small event at the American Regions Math League (ARML) at the Penn State site

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... at the wedding: software engineer/Kenjitsu instructor/author, Medical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  some amount of noise at each point. Originally, we just used straight ... The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  conceive of. Even now, it astounds me. At SSP, I learned over and over that ... synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors ... skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  before July 4th, at the end of the annual Boston Harborfest. It’s earlier ... Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017