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• 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

  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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  three pieces of advice. 1. Relax. 2. Submit your application well in ... essay has to be something to do with engineering or could I send in a project I have worked on in my graphic design classes, such as a poster

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed ... little less than a month into living alone, that I woke up at five in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  much more useful embedded in the names of the pictures on the website ... in real life, who has this really impressive, almost encyclopedic ... still remember when it happened. We were in some random building after

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  website through an old high school classmate's finsta post where their ... ="missa was the nickname i went by in middle and high school ... , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway ... tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our ... thought about waking up at 3am in a panic because a [annotation note="or an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on ... with additional questions or ask them in the comments below. I can ... in the comments we didn't get to answer (watch the webcast for the ones

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see ... Hermes after being raped (surprise surprise) by Zeus. She is also, in case ... , too, but there is a much higher density of mythological life stories in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  life here, but it has proven to continue to define my life in countless ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s ... or protect themselves from online education. Then MIT stepped in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  , Hassan (who is from the Ivory Coast) was always highly active in the Muslim ... student entrepreneurship clubs and organizations. In addition to taking on ... students to participate in MIT’s Sandbox initiative. Working with Sandbox

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  Two summers ago, I visited my friend Shruti ‘24 in their home state ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... you in Europe?!” I rode the high of my “European” adventure for a few

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  us. the show has 14 dances, 12 of which are created in the few weeks ... of practice each day. it's a lot! Mocha Show in 2020 was one of my ... 't able to have Mocha Show in 2021, however, so i was intent on contributing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... , there are too many great options; with over 300 classes in [annotation ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their introductory courses. Robert lives in Maseeh Hall, was born in Goma and grew up in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I hope you enjoy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush burgers with my first time in the EC courtyard, when I dyed my hair in ... weekend. In previous years, I’ve been woken by everything from Fall Out Boy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018