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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  in the wall next to 224C. I do not know how or why it got there, but it ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... in Mollie's wacky professor quotes entry... though I guess, by itself

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  spend in college. if i knew about covid i’d have spent more time exploring boston in the time i was actually there. if i knew everything would be ... home ruminating about things i could’ve done differently in college, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea ... meet everyone who got in and hear about their stories about how they ... finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  about teaching at MIT. How would you describe yourself/what do you do? I ... my free time. I can’t thank Marjorie enough for how kindly she guided ... to happiness and (dare I even hope) success someday in doing something

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it ... on 006. But I don't need to. I'm satisfied with how much I'm learning ... class whose lectures and recitations I regularly attend, at this point in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  how to talk to people... or into microphones..."), or would they see ... for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... shops and how I exist within them. I was at the moto fest with a white guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  in Cambridge for summer 2023. I would be working on a more technical ... that I supervised about MIT in the Marvel Multiverse. Jade just published ... even wrote about a pair of Spider-Man Shoes I had painted in high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... , I immediately shed all the things that I had done in high school that ... when I first heard That sweet sound of humility? It came to my ears in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  should I go in the quirky direction? unclear but you would not believe ... need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on ... has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what I am asking is, specifically, how has MIT helped you come closer to ... expressed some interest in it when I was about ten, and after that my family

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  -Set for the day is: how much transparent concrete would I need to safely ... ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an ... One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  reality, it's just that I don't know how to learn. I've realized that my ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... of fears swirling in my head being at this school. I praise it every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  share with us.   Q5) How do I send in my source code? How do I send ... , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... than 2 minutes in runtime. Many different projects would fit the bill

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  double majoring in Nuclear Engineering (Course 22) and Biology (Course 7) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... Engineering. He then sent out emails and began his work at the BNCT in mid

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  and I am complacent. My freshman year I remember being so in awe of how ... , Cami, I totally would but out of respect for Raymond, I won't." So how ... been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  said to me. i do not know how much of what i have said i now own, but in ... it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it ... telling it because i find it funny. how a silly little review can make a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023