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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  dance, from traditional Asian dance to K-Pop; members perform at a ... Cinderella Story as a seven-year-old and busting it down to All Star by Smash ... a trip to Sparkles roller-skating was incomplete unless I tried, at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  people refer to the recipients as a Genius because they are awarded a ... everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me: Yea, I know that. She's an MIT professor. Friend: No, she's a GENIUS. Me

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is a little harder for your situation. You may be overwhelmed thinking about prices, distance from home, community, and/or ability to perform

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my ... conferences. I had a thermo pset and an essay to work on the night I found out ... nearly everyone at AWP, I hadn’t been to a conference, writing-centric or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... would love to help you through admissions, but we expect a little work on ... to have at least read an entry or two, maybe explored the website a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... : CJ: The post also includes a form to submit guesses, and a leaderboard

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

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  you are a pros and cons list connoisseur, or because you meant to click ... you’re a freshmen looking to hang out with your fellow classmates or ... floor to take a break from their work to hangout and socialize for a bit

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  Architecture department tend to host or promote a lot of these events, in ... setting up in the List Arts Center. It was super inspiring to see a large ... . I find it hard a lot of the time to fight climate doomerism

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  at the time, so i learned a lot - every time i wanted to visit a new ... district is confusing to navigate because a silly surveyor decided to align ... , so i will try to give a concise summary based on my understanding of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  patients (or whatever you’re studying) to a “treatment” group and some to a ... experiment would be to take a person, give them the vaccine, and see if they ... : I do not have a time machine to go back and study the same person

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the ... so large that even a .5x wasn't zoomed out enough for me to get it all ... think I drew a piece of cake). Then, we were supposed to come in on a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  in handy to have a flu vaccination ☠️ also! i think a really important ... "]compulsory meal plan friends,[/annotation] you’ll have to wait. I ate a LOT of ... time i got to the buffalo chicken too, so there wasn’t a big point

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... effort for people you care about. Sometimes, you have to break your back a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  feel like a slacker... so without further ado, here are some answers to ... to pursue some great experiences and grow as students/people may have a ... applied to MIT in a previous year." I think Ben just about covered it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  overcommitter and a workaholic to boot"]at once.[/annotation] I’d like to also ... …"]year.[/annotation] I’d rather focus on subjects important to my research/career path ... in a weird time zone, so I didn’t really have anyone to work together

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least ... sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know ... ’ll be hard, but I want to try. Give me a shot and you’ll see—I will try my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  finished counting, I had ended up with 28 shirts. I donated a few to the ... estimate. I sent those 28 shirts off to a nice Etsy store that turns your old shirts into a giant queen-sized quilt, and I'm SUPER excited to see it. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  you were a student in web.lab 2020, but you never had to use this stuff ... your life, you don’t have to address a disproportionate amount of ... actually a lot of fun to think about host lots of office hours for students

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  , we went to this panel and met Lauren there, and asked her a question ... specify what you contributed to). We’ve chatted a couple times with Lauren ... is important to make. So, just like Michelle, we will write about what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  stay in a hotel with them so that they aren't alone? Or do we need to ... schedule, going to the events they're interested in, doing a little exploring ... ). ------------------------------------- Melissa wrote, "Not a question to Matt, but can one of the bloggers write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007