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• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  . But while writing the essay, I tried to cram 3 years of experience into ... together a hybrid with the most important parts of each. By the time I was ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

    Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time ... being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... hugely important for your health and happiness, as well as your academic

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  that divides a full rotation into a number of equal steps."]stepper motor ... . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  the forms of autism. Getting into a graduate or professional school is ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  dancing. Don't know when I'll stop. It's a different kind of excitement than when I got into MIT for undergrad. I knew I was going to get into

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  as large-scale or well-known as that of its nearby Ivy-league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed ... on a series of fantastic shows each term. This term I've been

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  speak the language of E&M. I think more importantly, I'm creeping ... place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... remembered I hadn't eaten all day. You know that sense of entitlement that we

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... Engineering), probably the most stressful semester of my life. I was lucky ... had to worry about a lot of things I didn't have to worry about while I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  into the vastness of the box that I’m in. But it’s possible ... designed circuits of genes and then stuck them into cells. It also counts as ... into the corner of a dining table and dented my skull because [annotation

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and [annotation note ... tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... of that misfortune made [annotation note="and consequently, me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  plenty of other examples- like "nacht," the hearty German word eroding into the English "night" (the "ch" eroding into nothing, as the "gh" of ... . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  ’t finished, but it was something like an infusion of my own ideas into the anti ... side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I hadn’t been working on my UROP. I say this in a sort of half

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  cramming most of the labs into the twenty-four hours before they were due), I ... that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... talking about the most fundamental aspect of college: classes. So I thought

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  passionless had a crisis, got a tattoo

  

  friends instead of a day of radical change and contemplation. I mostly ... was a year of deduction. This is a pretty normal time in most people ... . Nonetheless, I want a year of assertiveness, eagerness. It's much easier to know

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  Hello, gentle readers! For those of you who don't know me, I've been ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... lose that part of my community I most enjoyed. Of course, since MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  competitions, so I was prepared to just put in some limited amount of effort into ... general; people of the likes of Dostoevsky and Gogol (importantly, a Russian ... that i took ~15 flights, most of them crossing the Pacific ocean, with

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  have twisted the crimes of his story into my own. For it is totally okay ... too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  awesome teams), but just because they recognize the importance of sports ... for "Crew of the Week" and you can all help our crew team be recognized ... little support! For those of you unfamiliar, Crew is sort of a big deal

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus ... ). I'm not a very good photographer, but here are a few images of campus ... , Physics professor Scott Hughes, Professor of Urban Studies and History

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work ... should be a momentous occasion, where I have something important to say (I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004