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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  ?! For real. If there was a crystal ball you could look into that would ... So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... them up a bit, and here they are: 1. Just read it. Every once inawhile I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  since I got here. For me, IAP has been a time of relaxation and ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... with a team, and we placed third! [caption id="attachment_41565" align

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• 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.

  

  , and decide to make quick pasta for dinner with Phyo, another TA and '10 ... - opened a bag of sugar yesterday, and Burton-Conner kitchen particularly ... fourth floor of building 3 for really excellent Indian food. Crack open the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  .)     ivynewton ‘16: You lay down for a 15-minute nap, and ... the end of term, and every posting space is filled with ads for various ... to an email sent to eecs-jobs-announce looking for a “technical

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  and more improved. Looking back, I've completed the requirements for two majors, along with a slew of classes in between that I took for fun ... has developed for itself a spirit and a culture that no university can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... . Similarly, N for buildings in north campus and NW for buildings in northwest campus. Buildings in main campus do not have a letter in front and just

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one ... !" out loud, and one of the postdocs gives me a strange look. 10:15 AM. I ... room for a while. Usually I would go chat with the lab techs, but almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  ? He’s intent with saying that U will be a better fit for me. In my mind ... room for the night, and his roommate was fine with it too. I just then ... Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian ... keep up with both the transfer application and my regular schoolwork ... , public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection ... - so we read them very carefully. Quite simply, we are looking for the ... piece of prose worthy of a magazine, or something that has been edited and

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  green donut-thing with red wire? That's a huge inductor. And then the ... and current, for the lamp, are really weird. Even if you put a high ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and

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

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

  

  with escape rooms and everything even horror-adjacent for years. Plus, I ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky ... living at Next House for 3.5 years, I still hadn’t done Next Haunt. My

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  my favorite professors, chatted with me about math and life for hours ... . I had lunch with my mom every day, and I could visit my parents (both ... , accomplished adults you interact with will value your ideas and your dreams for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  to have a system that's working for me now and impressing myself with ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... make A's. I'd stand before a class and wing a 20 minute presentation with

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I ... . Note that a “party” is where you get to meet and chat with a new sorority ... with mints and cough drops just for you. Focus on the values of each

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

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  for a PhD. I had spent two years researching programs and thought I had ... be challenged by, and how much; like whether you are ready for a period ... analytically and solve with solid evidence and clear thinking. Sometimes, this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... five hours later with an full beard and a splitting headache to the ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a ... diversity. We are looking for merit and diversity. It's not either/or. It ... There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  in. They look around for empty seats and drop their things on a blue or ... are four of us. We’re a good group, a healthy mix of ages, genders, and ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  friends with me? And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence ... best and most short-lived shows. Serenity is shaped like a firefly, with ... blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014