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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!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... , making sure to state that Riri was a resident of Simmons dormitory. Erick ... as a part of his application to MIT, and had a YouTube channel

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  will be a painful job for you. It's important to post regularly. Do you ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to write a blog post, but was struggling with writer's block (it's easier to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  ask, does a fluorescent light need to be controlled? You have likely seen a demonstration of how easy it is to wire up an incandescent bulb; you basically just connect it to a battery. In these more traditional

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... that used to freeze me up around water. As a recovering perfectionist, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer, lots of people I talked to asked me about what startup I was a cofounder ... capitalists and founders" and "a low-code authentication solution". To which my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for ... love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  bathroom, the film centers around the thing that happened to a freshman named ... : "IT'S A JOKE." 9:21 PM: Realize nobody actually knows what happened to ... dancing was a productive, well-deserved study break. Back to problem set

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  ?" YOU: "Uh...go to med school...." HIM: "Oh, you're a premed?" YOU ... here's my honest assessment of being a premed at MIT. I. I didn't come to ... 's not worth your time or energy." I came to MIT wanting to be a chemical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the ... anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... to burn out as a student at MIT? Here's a Quora answer about being ... . My parents were pressuring me to be a premed and become a doctor (like

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... geeky, but it’s truly a fantastic feeling to understand the biological ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  important because many of us owe a lot to the people who have supported us ... -years. It may take a while to adapt to life at MIT—indeed, it took me three ... ="I am not trying to wander into a philosophical discussion here. the point

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a ... to unique resources and unique opportunities. A close friend of mine

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 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 have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... heat. Below me my bed had decided to become a rock. I honestly have no

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  could be so vivid as to touch it. When I "visualize" a banana, well, I ... actually seeing a banana. But it's not at all similar to looking at a banana; it's just bringing to mind what a banana looks like. I have never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  Park lends itself to cross stitching so a lot of my early work was South ... stitched the more and more I tried to figure out a way to monetize cross ... copyright violation. I sold a few South Park patterns but it never amounted to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  another. It's important that, as you enter as a class, you learn to be ... themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when ... 's a lot. Do not feel afraid to stop reading all that MIT information

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  engineering to pursue a PhD in biological engineering at MIT. (It’s not as crazy ... protein engineering and computational biology to try to understand how a ... said goodbye to possibly one of the most amazing decades of my life. A

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with ... a VHS player handy? I’d love to see what’s on this tape."]VHS tape

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022