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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... friends was even a cast member two years ago), but I was always too lazy to ... a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  especially important for a product that absolutely needs to be reliable ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... convey convincingly to others. The difference between a great idea and a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in ... , which is a big reason that I'm writing this post. In one week, I need to decide what I want to do with my life. OK, perhaps a bit too dramatic of an

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... words, if you are lucky enough to have a singular greater vision or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... to take a gap year. It was strange, most of my friends from school had ... guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... ’ve since been informed that that’s a misguided conclusion to make, and I like to think that I have a much better attitude now. Regardless, I had

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  important in the long run, to a 17-year old, they were important – and even ... want to focus on making next year. To summarize my thoughts in a sentence ... -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural ... captured. And then, if you try to build a model based on these incomplete ... likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  a tweet to my personal Twitter account. I first imported the Button ... commentary! I really wanted to give a deep dive into an MIT class and I hope ... up the stairs to get a higher seat since sitting in the front scares me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

         “Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it's still an improvement.” “And what ... ). One that comes to mind is while replica plating. Replica plating is a

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

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want ... same time, I think it's incredibly dishonest to hide behind a blanket

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  other words, to become cognitively exhausted, in the way that when I was a ... , and try to structure our non-admissions related work (like redesigning a ... capacity for what really matters. But at a certain point, it's our job to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Act I: A (Probably Flawed) Introduction to Aristotle Although I ... ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions ... something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... to hear myself talk, I am writing to reach out and convey a message

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... worth as a person to come from the things I’m doing and by extension, I ... actually able to enjoy learning again when its not a direct causal indicator

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  sweatpants, and give them to a smiling volunteer holding an enormous bag full ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a wave and a corral. I'm wave 4, corral 4. It used to bother me that we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016