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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  , college websites, read everything you can. Take everything into account. I ... do and how we live. Here's the way I write. I write about the stuff ... of context and that prefrosh understand the background In the past I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  arrival... I'm wondering how long I can get away without buying a real ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... Identity. At first I didn't know how to take the news. This placement was ... really make me confident in knowing that he'll be there whenever I have a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  today at Noon EST. Hope you can watch! http ... towards the end. I'm not sure if you could sense it from where you were, but ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... gaming has led to an even further increase in nerdiness. Sometimes I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my computer in order to get blazing fast internet. As such I was very rapidly ... *LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYY *I Can Has Cheezburger *MC Frontalot *Rooster Teeth, the creators of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  MIT and he graduated last year with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. I ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  colors." Gwyneth Paltrow, I'm looking in your direction. Well, I don ... , Belgium. Because I was in Brussels, Belgium this weekend. if you happen to ... "travel like a lord" in first class. Wait, actually, I do have some big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  is a band I'm going to have to explain to my kids so they can ... notes. Even JBJ himself can't do it anymore. 0x6. Cherry Filter, [I can ... Opera here in Boston. I love the costuming, the movements, and of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  much” to “what’s up” or “i’m good” to “how are you” knowing how to use ... dancing in an empty room, so we can shorten the phrase “dance like no one ... span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... : Finally at Merck! I can't actually talk about my specific project, but just as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  ’ve struggled to earn B’s here!—I can’t see how those 250 words would have hurt my ... I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... , for one thing. For another, I didn’t actually put “MIT” in the subjects

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I ... participated in FIRST, last year I had the good fortune of experiencing FIRST

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... systems. In it, I found this photo of Harvard Bridge from 1929: This ... , which I've labelled in the image below. [caption id="attachment_61427

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  independently. However, applied to drawing, I can look at how the adjustment of ... whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... drawing I must preface that I never thought of myself as a drawer. In fact

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently ... waited in the car, promising that I'd visit again soon. I had even been ... Campus party I went to was, nor what the last meal that I cooked in my hall

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  application components to us in advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can ... 10) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the ... MIT website. [If your interview has been waived, don't worry about it, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  ring's design can be found at the Brass Rat 2019 website--go take a look ... , check out my personal blog for a sewing post about how I made my dress ... where the whole sophomore class dresses up in everything from onesies to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... Applicants plus at least 30 more from hopefuls in grades 8-11, and I don't ... that I can give you to answer all your questions: visit the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a ... Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005