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• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  A rising high school senior who is currently in a prestigious summer ... in general?) Do you believe someone could be rejected from a school simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  out I don’t have to be perfect in order to be happy with what I do. How ... classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal ... and a circular saw. I found it fun enough that I signed up for Maker

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  within my lifetime (in 2050), this is something that I need to care about ... collapsed — that is, their catch has declined by 90 percent. It is a very ... a freshman-only, 9-unit course that is geared towards exactly what the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  -ish Fall Out Boy album. tbh I feel so-so about the album as a whole, but I do ... @cactuscloudart's pink eraser carvings! I already had printmaking tools from a ... Arts at MIT) in Fall 2020, but I didn't have any more blocks to carve

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... can't pinpoint a single instance that propelled me to do this. But I was ... that which is unquantifiable. I can pay a nanny to take care of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  MIT, how time flies!) I did a game design class, early solar system ... (oh look, she's being gay again), and a few others that I can't recall ... wanted to teach about Love is that it was my primary game framework in both

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  cambridge’s godforsaken sad clouds. i sit down in a lounge on my floor. i watch an [annotation note="quantum physics i, taught in a hybrid format ... "]housecomm[/annotation] meeting or quantum mechanics questions; i read and read, in my room and in a

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... ; even the very concept of slam reminded me of a few things that I should ... , "Slam is a safe place." In some important ways, so is MIT. If you don

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  because I didn't go to CPW or do any pre-orientation programs (let that be a ... graduation, and I only got to do that because I randomly saw her in the ... that this is all one gigantic stupid sad memory in my mind, like I really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  which dorm they think they’d best fit in. I'll admit that a few of the ... stairs. It was beautiful in a way that I can’t really explain. Anyway, I ... painting our living groups in a negative light. I’m concerned that Senior

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  I've really really loved my schedule this year so I thought I'd do a ... , there is a quiz, except for review weeks. This class has been great. I ... became one of my favorites. I started to do really well in the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in BRASIL! my summer in january

  

  I could talk about, but here's a snippet of what the class is about ... neighborhoods in the city. It reminded me of a class I took last spring (modeling ... ) gave us a workshop! I got to play agogô, which is a bell instrument

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 5, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  't know if MIT has a wind tunnel, but if they do, I want to put bikes in ... campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... surgeon. 9:28am: A parent's question: "How important is it to choose a major

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

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  -COVID (lmao), and since I had already planned on going to a festival in ... in Boston is a nightmare, so it took us over an hour to get to her ... . that was night one! woo! the second and third days passed in a blur

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  software I could find that allowed both reversing a video and speeding it up ... Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard ... ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I ... of them were intriguing in their own way, only a few were classes that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  'm only doing all of these things in the first place is because i care about ... friends. and i only have so many hours in a weekend. and then. then there ... problem sets i have to do each week, and that's just, yes, that's the things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... . All in all, recruitment. Is. Exhausting. But it's a lot more fun than I ... sorority or spend a day with them which is really rare. In fact, I don't know

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  news is that I might still get to meet a reality show contestant--I was stalking Diana Eng and I discovered that she is going to be at the seamless 2 ... casual conversation, I found out that he's a fourth-year government student

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Robots What is a Narwhal? The Architectural styling of I. M. Pei How ... contributions to society on a daily basis. I said that I loved to teach and do ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013