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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  more piano songs - in fact, I think I've forgotten how to play some of ... only problem is that they’re all in Japanese and take me eons to read ... (although I did get around to reading some other books). And since I've been

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website to ... iPhone. in our first iteration, we tried to bust open a few ... . it's a very different way to think of product design or just design in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  . Brian came to MIT from California as an undergrad.  He majored in Mechanical Engineering but decided to do some research in the Math department ... .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  faults and he knows how I work. I think it would help me more to get his ... ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who ... care if recommendations come from the subject you wish to major in or not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7173.mp4"][/video] Story time: So in order to get back to the ... ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the ... ="116487" /]   So yea I somehow learned how to snowboard that day and left with a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  more on Dheera's website) In my transportation seminar, we ... hours when you consider the hours in advance you have to spend at the ... that turns out. How are your applications going? The folks in admissions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  get you in. "Another issue is related to interviewing in India.Here in ... since childhood I have been dreaming to go to MIT ..in fact go only to MIT ... the Computer Club.Actually,what I want to know in a very straightforward

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  interviews that ranged from the inane to the interrogative (often in the same ... of SLACs and state colleges in New England...and also to the College of ... in fact a terrible way to pick a college, and I soon transferred. At

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of ... finished. I want to hear about how the semester’s been tough. Heck yes I want

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  Trueba '20 ** Prior to MIT, Lilly lived in Georgia with her parents, both ... Christian school, where she learned how to code (she was the only girl on the ... , what stands out to her is hanging out routinely in the Pecker lounge of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... calling your school to get them. For other students whose grades have been ... is an aberration in the midyears. At this time, due to the continued

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  to sleep. For those playing along at home, here is Pset 8 in all its ... are a strange beast to me in E+M. 5:10am. Still thinking about SI units ... so as to illuminate the otherwise dark shadows in the figure. A

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  and showed up to exactly one meeting, in which a crowd of student ... about the action.” To which I respond, “How clever of you, I was just ... students to study and design technology for developing communities in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  , helping everyone in the Cambridge area get their data where it needs to be ... Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... down, and they found out just how useful it was to everyone else. Today

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we got there--nothing too bad, though. They tapped us in to make sure that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  past year getting to know each other, and I'm glad we'll have to next ... sometimes, you want to be a little subtle in your MIT pride, while still ... website, we though they might be interested in buying one for themselves (or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge ... enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was the case in my current line). I wandered up and walked right up to the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  laid out how we planned to get around each day, the “Lodging” tab laid ... reality of my existence. It’s too easy for me to get caught up in my studies ... through buying coffee and learned how to say basic things in Italian, like

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official ... change from a D to a B, shhhhhh.) I'm excited to see how the institute ... 're interested in and excited about that don't have to do with classes. The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try ... astronomy, and get a job in industry, business, finance, teaching, and ... you have to type this information again and again and again, in various

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013