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• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  it is difficult to return to the previous sensation, of seeing the ... to see the gestalt, please look at this. in this sense gestalt and ... feels like it isn't. to see the triangle would be a gestalt, then. but is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  With Apologies to Dr. Seuss why MIT is amazing, a la buzzfeed

  

  you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is ... ! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose ... . Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  the Conner side much more than I did in my freshman year. It's funny to ... living spaces. In dorms where this is not the case (which is most of them ... There is so much to say about residential life at MIT.  On campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  eventually felt that engineering was what I would want to major in the most. It ... can be attributed to how course selection in college is a double ... ."]physics?[/annotation]These seemed like the most likely trajectories. But over time, these seemed to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... really fast in the most graceful manner possible. And yes, I did stumble

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  landed in the jail cell with Mercer to beat the you-know-what out of him is ... classes. Keep in mind that this is only current for the Class of '10, so the ... . Are you required to take 2 or 4? Is the CI-M required (for, say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... feeling to realize that you know things that most people don’t; on the flip ... that I think I want to work in—transportation planning. It is nice to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... because there was only one temple in the area The answer (question) is at ... be invited to an in-person audition.  At the audition, you take a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... want to go to the east coast, where culture is!” and throws a fit when the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first ... just do not like (hint: deflategate) it is just much safer to lie. My ... . The “T” is the shorthand for the MBTA subway system in Boston. Since the

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  listen in on random seminars and take the longer route home. Most ... , where everything is saturated and the world feels surreal in a wonderful ... we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  difficult. Most students who applied to MIT this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose from ... weeks to come. In the meantime, we'll provide open threads today for all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... on our project. The most important thing I love about my hosts and pod

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  interviews. in the third episode, darryl, the interviewee, is an ex-convict who ... says things like: “The reason that meditation is so important in magic ... our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to get to know you more off-the-paper. This is not a business school ... MIT to the interview. I believe that we as ECs are often the most direct

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  on the Harvard bridge. T’Challa won’t feature much in this film ... operations cause the king of the oceans to attack Wakanda in a desperate bid to ... first architecture college in the US? At MIT, she chooses to live in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... Charles River is in front of me. There is a chip in the sidewalk. And ... friends, Netsanet (name changed) is an Ethiopian born in the United States

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  use “I” too much? The essay is about you, but it’s also about the people ... 50” college essays. I did that too much. As if comparing my work to the ... had one paragraph dedicated to parks in the fall and one dedicated to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  training wheels of the class helped. I learned to think in terms of change ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  Yes! Undocumented and DACA applicants submit the same application components and go through the same selection process as all other students. For those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our