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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  you’re feeling a little bold and don’t want to deal with the possibility ... a couple months ago, and chatted with a professor who told me that to ... , explained that I was considering a major in her department, and asked if there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  dedicated to mentorship, a philosophy that is widespread in the department ... to my life. The GRE is a game—one that’s not very fun, but one that ... do this. I want to Do The Thing, and this is a hoop I have to jump

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... just want to see the end result. That, and I'd prefer to not be arrested

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in ... here is a gift that is so easily overlooked. Being able to run to the ... this: the best way I know to honor her is to be a strong and good and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  need to lift a pen and know your name to join a 100 clubs that will send ... , crickets perform a fancy serenade and 770 miles away there is a vacant room ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  ready at the same time. Everyone has a spell hand of around 3 to 4, and ... future, that I can come back and continue to be a member of the Guild. In ... 2008 and in 2009. In fact, that 2009 post is from Paul B. '11, one of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  't get caught. Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you ... drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... ). ;-) Use the freedom that comes with not having grades first semester to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  up for a place that was supposedly going to unveil the mystery that is ... . We all love a rags-to-riches story, and so do all the writers who ... and being admitted. A few months ago, it was revealed that he applied to

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

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  and talked to the Potential New Members myself. There was a lot of ... . Note that a “party” is where you get to meet and chat with a new sorority ... and learn more about the process! Intro to Panhel What is Panhel? MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  enough" is easy. The challenge is to admit that the way you study doesn ... afford to spend a couple of hours here and there doing something cultural ... me that due to the Law of Conservation of Freshmen, I'll still be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning ... amidst the chaotic experience that I'm told is supposed to somewhat model a ... excitement and protectiveness over the frosh. There is much to learn and plenty

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... coming up with a zillion ways to explain the same concept; one person might ... , and ran to the cupboard. Flinging the doors open, I grabbed a bag of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... )—it basically acknowledges the fact that people subject themselves to a lot of ... do remember that growth accounting is a way to decompose an economy

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  's what you need to understand: There is nothing, literally nothing, that ... over a thousand other students were admitted to MIT that year, and none ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  school is just a place; it's what you choose to do that matters, not where ... accepted/rejected, because there is so much more to you, your abilities, and ... believe that wherever you find yourself in the fall is a place you can make

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  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 ... . After a lifetime of being smart and good at school — the thing that had

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  storytelling—that there is a better way, and that we can work to create that ... live, and how to live ethically, and how to live in a way that is very ... this country, and my parents are a part of that story just as much as I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... eerie quiet and stillness now that the season is over. They are replaced ... . Maybe there’s a way to be optimistic about all this. After all, there is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  is the same. Now, let's say you have 50 of these cubes in a model, and ... ="48163" image3="48165" /] And that's it, there's the parametric cooking. Take a ... . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  can fall into the trap of thinking that your success is due solely to a ... to be a part of, and I have never regretted the decision. 2. Freshman ... may seem. To the left is a representative picture from Sophomore Year

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014