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• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in ... 've also known this friend to be pretty honest with me, and in the past, he ... self-knowledge extends to domains besides romance. In fact, it permeates

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous ... "sure, why not?" In fact, I was labouring under the very mistaken ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came ... flashed in my head. The problem was I didn’t actually know what the exact ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  .223 as I write this. (though I did hand in all the psets on time! go me!) I ... for like half of January after coming back from Russia in the beginning ... ’s cold. And we’re in a pandemic. As for cleaning my room… the class and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  years--was knowing that I was making a difference in the lives of hundreds ... days, whom I met for the first time in person when I arrived for orientation at MIT in my freshman year, who ended up pursuing a degree in STEM

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... through applications, an idea slowly started forming in my head. Well, more ... "]a written piece where every sentence was taken from a line in a song

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... family-owned businesses and trendy food destinations in general. I mean ... Company all in the same square? It’s hardly fair. There is a visible trend

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in ... Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... -eye flight home, and you see people you know in the halls again. Crucially, Reg

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... enough to stay in the department, but i never felt totally sure about it. i ... multipliers in the same breath, where i get read and write (at various levels of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days ... me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the ... dress and sandals (in contrast to my usual comfy T-shirt and shorts

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in ... introductory philosophy classes).  Note: this post was updated on June 21 in ... level rose by 8 inches in just the past century. The average temperature

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  text very well or at all, that's okay! What I'll do in this section is give an overview of the IPA symbols that are used in English. By the time ... make sounds in your mouth, like retroflex, uvular, and pharyngeal sounds

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  space-themed climbing game for kids There's a shift in arcade games ... LED rocks and the capacitive touch sensing to detect a user's hand. In ... a demo in action! :D The biggest concern for Gravity, they felt

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... ” MIT class is 12 units. This may mean 4 hours in class and/or recitation ... (like the wonderful 18.S097 Special Subject in Mathematics: Introduction

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  taking the class with Ceri R. ’16, two people who live on my floor in ... Boys in comics class a few weeks ago, we focused mainly on how Faith Erin ... , grew from them (and not the other way around, shoehorning in plot to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  your Part 1 now, if you haven't already. There are no essays in there ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline ... , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... also all had their shot, and knowing in my head who I would have voted ... there was was state interest. It did a big part in helping to unite the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events ... for a battle in a specific location. I instantly registered and made Dan ... , fighting alongside your countrymen! We shall put those Tories in their place

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  the best college events in the nation—Campus Preview Weekend at MIT ... about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008