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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  and beloved professors at the institution. 8.01L met in the basement ... channel, where Ceri R. was offering to give away her old laptop that she

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  this article, one of the most requested lecture halls in the institute ... demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the community, does not communicate what your coaches or teachers or mentors will ... a forums post cannot communicate the complexity of an applicant's life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  internships. Get an offer for an internship. Get another offer for an ... . Tell social media about it. Put the offer deadlines on your calendar. Ignore the deadlines for a week. Fret over which offer you'll take. Weigh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  ranging from academic preparation to institutional priorities, the factor ... institution is going to choose to pass on their application. Most institutions ... most selective institutions scrutinize applications with sufficient rigor

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  't know, and no one else seemed to know, either. He had a random press

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  played it well when alone, but in class my hands shook and I pressed my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have ... a lot to offer the world. If you were rejected somewhere, that ... offer it. That can be a painful realization to confront, especially if a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  figurines my 7.02 (Experimental Biology and Communication) TA  Regina C. ‘14

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  . Desserts offer more flexibility in terms of color and textures, and after ... have to be clearly communicated in order for their art to be considered a ... idea or goal is communicated to the reader? Or maybe it’s more beautiful

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  run the Research Science Institute (RSI), a high school summer camp ... RSI experience had offered me the first chance I had ever had to be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  courtyard (bottom). The Parsons Laboratory, the Whitehead Institute, and the Koch Institute from the same courtyard (top right). Killian Court and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  . Would there be student check-in or teacher check-in? How do we communicate ... quiz, and they offered to ship shark plushies to the people who scored

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... , Director of Communications for MIT Admissions & SFS I was in my thirties

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  relationship). How do you communicate this to the other party? Well, departure ... people who can be clear in communicating what they want. Yet most students (especially the freshmen) are very bad at communicating this, because they

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  somewhere else. Press onwards.   November 1st has always been like a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  doesn't let you into their school, go somewhere else. Press onwards

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  students. Often, the "nerd" groups get the most popular press, and there are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  prison. In particular, the Massachusetts Correctional Institute (MCI ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017