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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  have we. Let me explain how. How (and why) we redesigned In 2016, we met ... , culminates today, in the launch of the MITAdmissions redesign. Why did we ... had on so many readers. However, as is always the case in web design

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  summer, back during Fall Career Fair in late September. I was feeling confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out ... summer. For real, though, taking my first internships in Michigan had some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when ... have taken advantage of it to an extent in freshman spring and sophomore

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in ... burnout. They seem to lose their motivation and desire after a few years in ... to a sense of motionlessness, that progress for women in the workplace

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  it in the news). Simmons is hard at work as well, preparing for the ... cardboard fort in the Mailbox Lounge. We'll be working on the construction all ... you've ever seen before. Meet us in our dining hall. 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... robots that actually did quite well in the competition! It's been a lot of ... top hill (in hindsight, I wish they had made flag pulling worth more

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  culminates in a hardware hackathon. 1. The Time-to-Pee Schedule Metric When I ... compounded when I have Intro Media Studies (green) in Building 1 and Poetry Workshop (red) in Building 66, on the other side of campus. Every Tuesday and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the ... you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I say "in theory," because as you can probably imagine, getting time on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  make the psychologically unhealthy decision of sitting unblinking in ... !" or "I'm scared I won't get in!" but things like "I am worried that when ... itself on my transcript, and my application will be tossed in the trash

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  ...they’re all a little bit off-the-charts in one way or another. And you ... Academy, 2012 commencement speaker (in one week!) --- Some of you might ... 't believe it's been one year already. In this intervening year, I evolved into

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  Program at the NRAO site in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your research topic ... year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  interning at a fairly large Asian public health clinic in Oakland, CA. During ... surveys, debated in health discussions, helped the clinic to fundraise, interpreted for patients, and participated in community health outreaches and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  Caffeine is in the air my friends, pencils are writing, printers are spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center....grumble grumble), and all this can only mean one thing. The MIT machine is back in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  airport in approximately 30 minutes. In a moment I'm all too familiar with ... . My suitcase is unpacked-in fact I haven't even brought it down from the ... entrance to Bush Intercontinental, my mom and I settle down in the terminal

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  what he says . . .twice. Woo-hoo! Here we go, we're in 26-100 and Ben is ... speech. He's now giving a brief history lesson of MIT. In 1861 MIT was ... 1865. It wasn't in Cambridge at first, it started right across the river

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... , froshlings. You. You'll all be here in two weeks. Your friends at other ... yet and you're sitting around wondering what in the world a Math

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by Kevin: Kevin said: what does the admissions office look for in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student in high school and getting straight b's here at mit? Well now you did ... . Next year I'll be taking smaller, specialized classes in the major I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back in preschool and kindergarden, I was adding and subtracting way before ... just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  :       Don't refer to yourself in the 3rd person. It ... Prize in Biology and attributing all of your success to your admission to ... you want to "keep it real" get an "A" in Calculus. That's hot! Never

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005