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• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social ... knowledge base. By focusing on LΔ we can really zero in on YOUR individual ... , and standardized tests. Can we rely solely on these tools? I say no

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  . KN6OQK” how I got here I picked up ham radio as a hobby during ... bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I ... for marshmallows[/caption] artistic terrorization I forgot how exactly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  , the excruciatingly detailed how-to-do-everything-that-you-can ... ’S FRIDAY NIGHT NOW SO YOU CAN’T TURN IN YOUR NEW FORMS UNTILL MONDAY MORNING ... (which you can probably guess at by the title of this post). We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  , to fangirl, and maybe to show how MIT can become a home for fellow I ... will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I mean, I didn’t even think I was going to come here in the first place

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  time in my life. I never had gaming consoles when I was younger, so this ... exactly is Genshin? / How do you play Genshin? I’m glad you asked! Genshin ... person in the picture is Albedo, who’s an alchemist. I don’t have a lot of

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  Pederson won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1987 for figuring out how to ... received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  It's an ordinary Thursday! I'm living at an apartment in Cambridge ... circadian rhythm into obedience. 9:15 AM I feel up all the avocados in my ... I can finally work 40-hour weeks now! 12:35 PM LUNCH TIME I make a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  once. They are gentle and severe. I want this woman to teach me how to write. You can read the first essay in the book, "Time and Distance ... in Central Square and lost it on the plane back home. In between, I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  in the stereotypical self-introduction. Hi! I'm Evan. I'm in the Class ... stereotypical MIT Course Sixer. I live in Burton-Conner, along with way too many ... still some areas that need to be touched up, and I need to figure out how

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  autonomous subteam, I realized a lot of it was thinking about how in class we ... ://fsae.mit.edu/. Background and Introduction I’m Monica C., an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering ... are used day to day in the industry. I think the real point of MIT isn

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  ) major. I have recently completed my HASS Concentration in Course 11 (Urban ... MIT, fabricated a house featured in a MoMA exhibit last summer (there I ... yes, you CAN major in art at MIT. Here it has more of a studio art

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  been a very good opportunity to learn how the economic theory can be applied to solve real problems and I hope I can go back to India to start my ... to work in their chosen field. In 2010 & 2011, we sent 66

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  advice I'd received in high school about college decisions. I'll give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... lesswrong.com might be a good idea, although I don't know how much good it

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... 't know if MIT has a wind tunnel, but if they do, I want to put bikes in ... to win races, they can use technology. Well, I guess that's just a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . “You have no idea,” he told me, “how often I asked [insert Math Major ... thinking about how guilty I felt. Fast forward to last night. I was kneeling ... turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  best we can, which is how we've settled on our current format of ... I've got applications on the brain. Last week, we posted the blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share ... of ideas about how to continue from which students may choose. In some ... them in peer-reviewed and other publications, * understand how these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  the situation? I can't emphasize this enough: make sure to review ... should be soon.  I know the college application process can be, like ... not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the ... about the people in my life. I couldn’t have arrived here without them ... challenge. Yes, I’ve had plenty of fun in high school, but when I picked a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014