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• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... psyched about brains. When I was in 8th grade, my mom brought home a copy of How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  speech, but just by being in college, I'm beginning to understand it. What ... , and learn from that. I’m here to learn about other people and in the ... fundamentally changed in some way as a person. The only way this can happen is by

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too ... I was doing at the exact time it happened?" I can't say I'm happy with the answers, especially this year. I've been dabbling a lot in being

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  the most fantastic and ethereal book that I've ever read in my ... DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  V-Day, I'd like to put in a plug for MIT's production of the Obie ... . I hope many of you will check out a production in your town this year ... . At MIT, we celebrate the holiday in various fun ways. Of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I apply as a QB Finalist even if I did not rank any colleges?

  Regular Action. In the email, please include your full name, date of birth ... . Do not begin a first-year application in our application portal until ... Bridge application, along with the QB supplement, in place of our first
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American Idol? What's going on with American Idol?

  

  completely missed this season and now I can't believe my eyes! How is Taylor, a ... Tomorrow is my last final! Hurray! In the meantime, I was just surfing the web (read: procrastinating) when I came across an American Idol

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... challenge in question, and how; [4] What networks exist between these players ... this campaign, please e-mail me so that I can give you further details

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  , when I was enrolled in this year’s Silly Robot Extravaganza 4000, I ... wasn’t one of my intentions. However, I can’t say now that I regret it at ... to visit my aunt; my aunt and uncle live in Seattle and I’d never been

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  argue in this blog that Blahaj’s popularity can be contextualized within ... Blahaj have in common is that they all disrupt the norm of how sharks are ... ” becomes “at least I can get a hug from a silly shark.”  While everyone can

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in ... semester off and accept a 6-month position in Apple's iPhone Product Design ... your own things that other people can use." - steve jobs   I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  just that good and that it could melt in your mouth like that. I can say ... so many wonderful people in this city. By God’s grace, my sister and I ... ’t think this would have happened if I went to school in another city outside

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  wanted to work on it in the future. I'm writing this post because I ... ." Disclaimer: I'm literally a child. I'm like 19. So I don't know how exactly qualified I am to write this, but I thought I'd just give my two cents in for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] from 8.033[/caption] I learned how to make dotted lines

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn't know that before, I hope you ... popped up on my phone, I knew I was born for this moment. So for everyone wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  ? ;) This is the obligatory "oh-wow-I-can't-believe-how-fast-time-is-passing-and-I ... ago, I had just completed my final exams, which can only be termed as ... MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  been, and neither had anyone in my family, so when I told my parents that ... , like how MISTI flew me over to Paris, how the research lab I was working ... Paris' 14th, and how I even got a small stipend, my parents were just as

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports. From Fact 3, I can tell you that SFO has pretty great food, IAD has a ... on many airlines and seen how air travel functions in several countries

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  . maybe i can write about how i’ve joined Burton Conner’s Transition Team so ... . focus. can i cram an intensive reflection on how much (or little) i’ve changed in these few months at MIT into these last eight minutes? can i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  how I think. How I make sense of the things that are happening in my ... executive order in healthcare reform. I've been writing for as long as I can ... truthfully honest about how sometimes life can collectively suck. I get to make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019