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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  seemed to be every dorm but the one I was slated to live in for the next ... I had individual friends in Maseeh, I’d figured, dorm culture wasn ... came out in May. However, after getting to campus and dancing, having my

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  Dear Reader, I'm writing this in the Wordpress portal and this is an ... allowed? One time, in my sophomore year, there was a blogger meeting where I ... those of you who do not know me, my name is Cami and I graduated MIT in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an ... Mechanical Engineering undergrads in a class known as 2.009: Product ... Presentation in which student-designed products were presented. -- I was in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  process. Dozens of you wrote in with wonderful, funny, and sometimes ... best universities in my country. However, I want to study aerospace engineering. In Costa Rica, we hardly have a decent airport for receiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  ) website. In regards to Harry Potter, I secretly still want to be a ... there is out there in the world. I read into my zodiac and stuff, not ... believe in ghosts and the paranormal and all that. So yeah, you could say I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to see some images in Old State Clothing Co. that probably seem sad and ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... borked the 30s. In my defense, there were certain ~ points ~ in my MIT ... limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your ... , it was somewhere in the middle, and that couldn't be more clearly shown ... haven't really locked in with the full PNR mindset. I did every pset for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  scratch!   Step 1: Visualize the sign in your designated space ... and visualize pretty much whatever you want in 3D regardless of what you ... presentations to websites on an infinite canvas." ] Figma [/annotation] to flatten

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... fashioned way, like a letter showed up in my actual mailbox outside my house ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  "]Notion,[/annotation] or Dynalist, or whatever other popular strategies people swear by. In a ... ="Communication Intensive in the Humanities; basically means you have to write a certain ... woefully undercovered in most US curricula, and the first book we read

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  Wu in 2003. He says the following on his website (Network Neutrality ... team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... American conservatives. In all the primary reporting, responses, inquiries

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went ... there who have built bottle rockets before or participated in a similar ... design”, the advice of someone who just happened to be hanging out in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  the institute once again in the fall! So now you've decided to go to ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes that everyone else is getting placed in.  MIT is different from other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  on here and say harsh things?" Well, as has been noted in the comments ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... individual business courses, the Sloan minor in management will serve as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  I enjoyed and did reasonably well in was a confidence booster. Soon ... in with tech talks and lotteries for electronic swag, which we could ... code, polished websites, sophisticated projects. On mine: a spatter of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Primer trimestre del primer año Una historia de terror, diría… pero con un final feliz.

  

  abalanzaba sobre Best Buy, intentando comprar televisores y cámaras digitales

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... and hacking, in whatever capacity we could within the short time ... they build inside the dorm!). In a sea of mechanical, electrical, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in ... , unsurprisingly, How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs, with 7 songs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023