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• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  insurance, resulting in the exorbitant bill. An internship at an Asian clinic ... they cannot apply for health insurance, resulting in exorbitant health ... language barrier. They often cannot apply for health insurance, resulting in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  this semester started at 11 AM every day (and I've been on an extended ... ) and add my DNA mix to each well. 5 hours, 37 deg C. 11:10 AM. I go back ... the tube to 42 deg C, then plate the cells. 37 deg C, overnight. 11

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  [/annotation] in half. The resulting images didn’t look too great, but at least they ... current instead. This was the final result: Fabricating the solar cell ... .[/caption] [image_grid images="86589,86590" caption="Viewing the results under a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  kitchens (for boiling the soup for 14+ hours). Fig. 6. Chicken Kiev. One ... lighter”. For my [annotation note="21W.747 Rhetoric: excellent class, super ... ) describes the resulting product well: The color on the inside should be red

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  result of smart peers is that your professors will have very high

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  , nothing before this had ever suggested that I couldn’t get the results I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  was just a coincidence that MIT decided to release the results minutes

  • 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.

  

  over-21 student blogger, and 3) some of us just aren't the classic frat ... direct result of no fewer than four dorm parties (and, in case you didn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  I did anything unusual between December and March or even between when ... rejections. Ceres L. ‘14 I actually applied to MIT during regular admission

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  time February and March rolls around things feel tired, they feel already ... , as opposed to a full computer science major."]21E[/annotation] after ... was my first semester as a full 21E major. I was taking three humanities

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  of these to just be a result of a small community, but every one of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  : me, shardul c. ’22, sarah w. ’21. photo: ahaan r. ’19[/caption] After ... anything in this large lecture hall. The night begins with Brian C. ’19 ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] this is brian c. ’19, holding pool noodles. this wasn’t from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  intentional. other parts, however, result from the fact that my knowledge comes ... major (21S) in Writing and Mathematics, a second major in 6-3 (Computer Science and Engineering), and minors in 7 (Biology) and 21M (Music). also, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  later, I woke up at 3 pm after sleeping for 14 hours. With my eyes wide ... , with hard work, we got some initial results. This led to an opportunity ... project, from the problem to my approach, to my results. The joy and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  activity now. (11:28) This quote also feels parallel to today. With a quote ... Class of '22. Not 2022 (like I am), but 1922. This was definitely the most ... now due to COVID-19). Some things that blew my mind: The typeface on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  ever exchanged with Spencer, the day after we admitted him in March of ... ). An Elizabeth Bishop collection—required reading for 21L.487. A great

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Building.  1: I turned 19! My favorite part of birthdays is ... oscillator. Sophie '14 and I are both taking 8.03, a class called "Waves and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  a little bit about what my job is like from November through March ... might actually turn out to be okay after all. In March I go into

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006