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• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  always wanted to go to Hogwarts (college name pseudonym, for privacy ... in October, and it was important to me for a lot of reasons that I ace ... crutch to office hours in the rain? I did it for a specific result: I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  almost inescapable. I wanted to increase opportunities for the MIT ... group, or anywhere else, making it easier for individuals to increase ... Vote to help them register to vote, be reminded about local elections, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  myself, traveled over to Hanscom Air Force Base (about a 30 minute drive) for the fall semester's FLX, or Field Leadership Exercise. Over the past five weeks, we had been learning skills to help us in this exercise. From

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  also be beneficial for my research mentor to write me a recommendation in ... project lasted only for a month or so, but it was a 9 to 5, monday to friday ... necessary in order to communicate my message as well as show my passion for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  very lucky to find out that my high school sponsors college trips for ... 11PM, so just for fun we went back to MIT! At the Student Center we ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  next to the shattered fragments. We also took a few mementos. (For these ... time for it. I'm going to practice over the summer and audition next fall ... time for it and commit to it. By the end of the concert (sponsored by the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... shelter for raped and sexually abused girls. Her original plan was to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  . Well, at least for train routes. Due to the whole bussing deal, I got to ... I would ever see or even want to see for that matter. I saw the leaves ... As one of my “Treat. Yo. Self.” presents for my birthday, I got 3

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once ... many kinds of awesome, your grade is going to be 1/4 of it for 4 years, and they'll the people you'll have the chance to know for the longest

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  down to the bunkers of the basement of building 3 to work on my robot for ... ) In conclusion, thanks to all of the prefrosh who I met for: -making me ... on what I was up to this weekend: Thursday night: At the opening

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  all to see what works best for you. Once you’ve mastered the “downward ... dotted lines, which require you to rotate your wrist as you go along. For ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  missing out, but I'm really not interesting enough for anyone to miss out on ... applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift ... - take, for example, everything related to 18.02 ever - but if I fail at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  , outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype ... other. He says that MIT was the only school he applied to, and for him it ... friend who was on his way to a job orientation for the World Wide Web

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa ... Rock Band). But that's enough on cocoa for know; back to the blog entry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... coaches" or the like, but you should feel free to ask for help making sure ... travel season, we'll prepare to read your applications. I suspect we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  I have observed, is to genuinely care for each other. — "IHTFParadise ... for people. I must care for myself too, and that is easy to forget when ... brace for impact and hope for the best. You have to fall with them a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  stare at my phone for an hour to have a conversation with a friend. Beyond ... replacement for face to face interaction. Then there’s other issues. Say you ... like to pset together over zoom, but it hasn’t really worked for me

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  , however, that Zooming for n hours a day kills your will to do much aside ... motivated to do even when i haven't been able to focus on anything for half a day and i'm beating myself up for not being able to get my shit together

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... . I found out that I actually enjoy coding enough to do it for hours at ... .009 staff took steps to improve the class since last spring. I was wrong for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have[annotation note="Except for when I sleep too little the night before, because I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019