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• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  can answer this question: when New Orleans rebuilds, what can be done to prevent this from happening again? How would you design it? To applicants ... whatsoever, do not hesitate to call or email anyone in our office. As you may

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  too early too. But now that I'm a sophomore, I get to start taking ... Office get a sense of what your passions are and how you have explored them ... strains with these four genotypes to characterize any new strain. When you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  community. With privacy becoming increasingly more consequential in our day-to-day lives, I was interested in exploring how I could use my background in ... first class back in February, the Georgetown Law students flew up to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  ’d have to draw, or if they saw their home in a new light, with sharper ... tone or idiom, because I wouldn’t know how to manage those things in ... disposable camera I’d taken pictures on to CVS and get its film developed, in

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  officer to get a more official opinion! If you're interested in learning ... get to college, you will be able to sample classes in a variety of ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... is called "the Infinite" (just run from New House to 26-152, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  in touch with a lot of the folks I used to talk to back then to get ... narrative. In past documentaries, I never really understood how to transition ... had in mind, but had no idea how to write this down into words. For the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  will live in my new apartment for a year while I commute to and from the ... refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. How could it be otherwise?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a technical setting, but it amazes me to see how the lessons have reached into non-technical fields, too. I know how to write a specification for a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  to the liquor store across the street. I'm in Greenwich Village. I ... learning." "Get a PhD" in your field--even if you're not literally getting ... crosswalk conversations ("...host a wine party..." "No way!") waft up to where

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  , that’s only 0.3 miles… BUT STILL"]from New Vassar to the physics building ... whopping 168 acres – which is 1.5x bigger than Vatican City! To get from one ... had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  he was sometimes struggling to get some medieval poem in arcane english ... and is going to their open house to see how it will measure up to MIT in ... pretty sure that you're going to MIT?", "What are you going to major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  in the X, Y, or Z direction to make it. You have to make NEW planes ... in learning how to CAD simple objects. No more 30 minutes of screaming ... stuff, and voila you get to see how aerodynamic the original object was

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  . I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than ... get him to care for me? I deleted some paragraphs in case someone came ... don’t want to hear about him. I am in so much pain. How much pain is

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  a lot of cooking experience. In an effort to both improve our cooking ... First day of IAP![annotation note="and in an effort to reduce the amount of jetlag we were all feeling from flying back to campus"]In the spirit

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  to get there in one step. I felt so far behind and I was mad at myself ... that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  clubs were serving food at their first meetings in order to lure in new ... be eggs and veggies, but I forgot to get eggs, so it was in fact just ... habits, and also to show frosh and prospective future frosh how free food

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  one of the hardest things to get right in math pedagogy? [annotation ... useful skill is figuring out how to interest other people in solving your ... . The reason I want to emphasize this is because of how incredibly

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... ways it forced me to grow up, and how to pick a healthier path in the ... from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016