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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  day jobs. This summer, as in January, I've perched myself atop the flat ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got ... in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or ... . If any qualified man in the Boston area reading this would like to ... ) describing your experiences. I'll also throw in my Harvard Book Store frequent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  ’m sorry to say that I took a more conventional route, as I stayed in lab ... from The Matrix. For the record, I was a Matrix fanatic in 8th grade. I ... hour. But, not everyone is as enthusiastic as I am… apparently

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is the name we will use in all official print and email communication from ... may use your preferred name or your legal name in communications
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into taking after realizing how bad my French was while studying in Europe this ... had asked me at the start of the semester what I hoped this class would

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too ... the answers, especially this year. I've been dabbling a lot in being ... , people, everything in between. I'm stressed, you're stressed, and this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  , first time driving in Boston, first time picking up my own rental car. I ... morning (which is to say that I switched to being nervous about waking up in ... thought it would be, perhaps because the road was deserted at 6.30 in the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  when I was in high school, but if I had, I think I would have asked Mrs ... . Mrs. Moore, because she had seen how much I had struggled in algebra, and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... hunt would contain 270--no, 271--no 271 1/2 puzzles, all in keeping with ... videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... 2 summers in Boston when I was in high school and they were so fun

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would ... surprising, but I’m willing to bet that in that year off, you’ll learn more ... year of college.) In my case, I took two years off and arrived on campus

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on ... so back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew instantly that I would have to ... The day I’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. For over 20 years

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could ... ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... -screen interactions between the Friends, and I'll release that sometime in the future ... participates in conversations the most? How many words did each character say

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  was held entirely in Spanish, so it was pretty advanced, but I enjoyed ... imagine that I mix these two up quite a lot. Throw in de/di, se/si, and so ... ourselves to see how many words we recognized in each one. Then she'd hand out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... , where most of what I do is staring at a computer while it tells me how

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• 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…

  

  policies on this topic that they've made public, I would advise folks to go ... applicant's Facebook profile to you, would you look into it? I don't really find much to be objectionable - it wasn't *that* long ago that I was in

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Hallo!  My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT ... work I’ve accomplished tonight:  I CADed up this piece for my robot in ... ’s what I’ll call it.  Here’s the prototype I built in lab today. It uses

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February ... Instrument Design). Still, I think it's amazing how much physical equipment I ... musical instruments using them very soon. A dollar bill I got in 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  challenging. In 2024 I developed strength and self reliance. Obviously it ... that I am beyond grateful for. But in some of these lows, I grappled with ... , relationships, etc… and then choose what deserves a place in your life. I think my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025