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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the ... , most of the tools would end up damaging the scarves in some way. For

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  pretty much everybody. (I, by the way, still believe in Santa. I just can't find the fireplace in my dorm room to hang stockings on...) My Only ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  science/engineering is one of the most effective ways to help the world! By ... blog posts, it sounds like the most amazing place to be in the world! I ... great for another person. The most important thing is that you go to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had my eye on the most is ice climbing. If you want the technical

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  those shorts of yours will make you go fast in the water?") The truth is ... the pool). We learned how to incorporate water jetskis as well (in case ... had to "measure" the distances between the stars in the films we

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how difficult the curriculum at MIT really is (not to mention how much I need to ... arrangements similar to the most optimal setup found in the "Results" section to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  something like, "On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to ... accepted to MIT, I still clearly remember the day I received my decision. The morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... a tough time finding the place where we were supposed to park, mostly ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all ... most likely to be seen in Admissions Committee. What about new test ... in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason" why you were deferred

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete ... in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all ... most likely to be seen in Admissions Committee. What about new test

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  , houseplants, is the one album of a song in this list that I will listen to ... made the subtitle "i promise this post is mostly in english" but then I ... most is fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), which is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  much more stable place than the uncertainty that plagued me for most of ... hallmates in the lounges, the ec rush playlist blasting in the courtyard ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up ... graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle ... been much more interesting than that in the past week; it's just that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  really mean to exist in this world as an adult” and “what do I owe to the ... meeting agendae, planned events, and did the work in order to make sure that ... survive. Is it my duty to give back in some way? I was big on duty in high

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  -acknowledged among Sensible People to be the most awesome objects in the universe ... window is looking at hydrogen regions in the galaxy (actually, he just ... the end of something makes it awesome) and Arlo to my left is making

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  that darken whenever a television is in view. The second is low- power RF ... ." Celebrity is fundamentally heroic; even our most tragic celebrity narratives (#winning) still construct the archetypes we pattern ourselves after. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  when the grade in question is as low or lower than mine. Listen to me very carefully: THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN THE SAT. And thank God. 7 ... accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... privileges to stay in the course. I actually wasn’t sure what to expect for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  team so much. I can’t wait to see what the post-season has in store for ... step closer to that goal.  But that was not the most eventful thing of ... win against Emerson, we are the first team to ever go 11-0 in our

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024