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• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is ... canopy of grey and I had woken up feeling this odd sense of emptiness. I ... school hallway accosted me with a new bundle of numbers. It was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did. Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... took over my life, and I spent lots and lots of my time and energy

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... trying to find a UROP because of this, and instead waiting for an opportunity that felt right at the right time. This did not happen for all of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  amount of gratitude toward you - yes, you! - for applying. I love learning ... struggles you face in life.   Some of you may be tempted to think ... measurement of your worth. A decision does not validate or invalidate your life

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one of the 4 midterms. I lucked out and squeezed a high enough grade on our ... project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of ... of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that my Sundays have been renamed “Day of 6.009 Office Hours.” 6

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I ... ’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on ... process of finding something that interested me was the furthest thing from

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ... first batch in summer 2017. Each of them will get hands-on mentoring as ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  deep fried Bertucci’s Pizza? We will have a selection of the finest local ... read our inaugural Deep Fried Taste of Kenmore Square event hosted by my ... of our brothers designed all the circuits from the ground up, and got

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  morning room sounds get your headphones

  

  of east campus: outside sounds, sink sounds, door sounds, my sounds use headphones for maximum sense of transported-ness   The ear favors no particular "point of view." We are enveloped by sound. It forms a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  following augmented reality and virtual reality closely since the beginning of ... first time. Above is a short demo of me using the Meta 2. On the computer ... different parts. There was also a demo of the human brain and a gesture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  . Despite my best intentions, a lot of things went off-course this semester ... talk at length about my personal life online because a lot of the greater joys in my life have been derived from small, private moments--a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  Infinite is filled with excited chatter and slowly walking walls of tourists, and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... of time management. For me to put in the maximum amount of work into

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  some photographs of the hack on a sunny autumn day. (also below is a chronology of other awesome hacks from fall 2015)   The MIT hackers have been busy this semester! Here's a timeline of Fall 2015 Hacks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for ... , regardless of citizenship or location, will be able to apply for either admissions round, EA or RA. Other aspects of our policy will not change

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  it was. Smugness crept onto my face as I began thinking of what comical ... day wait.   *static---commercial break* Be the life of your ... squirt ring (UPDATE: SOLD OUT!) If one of you makes this, I want ten

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  this right. Specifically the snow piles in front of 77 Mass Ave. Once ... more snow...(View of Cambridge side from Boston) Alternate question ... there a golden droplet at the end of the icicle? (Fun fact: Icicles form

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  version of it all. I think the theme of my first semester at MIT was ... world” than I have ever been before, and it solidifies the idea of moving ... though epiphanies were sitting fermenting in the heads of all classmates

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  she works - the roof of the Green Building!  The Green Building is the ... , Jupiter and more! The view from the Green Building, the home of MIT's Earth ... some fun with them on the roof! Adam S. '14 wanted a photo of him in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014