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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D-Lab, a group of courses that aims to teach how to perform engineering in ...   Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  that i didn't know how to understand, so i gesture towards them in ... 'm running errands in california, like going to the bank and getting my mom ... record of how things are right now, to those at mit who care about making

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  notably in learning how to think about problems from my peers, approaching ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  made me admissible to MIT — I started getting things wrong in the ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip ... convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the ... they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... 'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... feel and create my own freedom in how I change." Well, somehow I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  opportunity to participate in a beginner-level appropriate competitive match to ... , get it done, let it go, and move on to the next one. I try to carry it ... prospective students. Here is what he said: Try to keep things in perspective

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  how fucking cool that is. Standing in the middle of the Killian Court ... Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... amazing view at night. My parents would always comment on how lucky I was to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog ... closest to the clean water). But in addressing other issues, we hope access ... (contractors and workers) who were familiar with how to construct this system

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... "the spellbinding 1400." Scores are one tool we use to help us in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... stuff we did to have fun lock in this semester. [carousel image1

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024