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• Blog / Challenges

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally ... a challenge, but if you get bored at around 3 or 4 minutes (as I think ... Cape Cod, not-so-pretty shots of mac and cheese, an attempt at a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  commercial spice mixes because we have no space for a real spice rack and don ... fat. Then you dump it all in a pot and boil it for a while, then you ... and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , fairly rugged mountain - together. …We are emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied ... and develop interests with, enthusiasms pool together in a common

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... start with a few in your head and see what happens to them as you begin ... I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  that lasts a lifetime. Your relationships with your family and friends ... accumulate enough socks and underwear to get away with that, but try to have a ... Affairs and Harvard Med School with blue hair, a side shave, and multiple

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  answer you’re looking for. I wish we could just give you a perfect black-and ... . It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Events

  halloween down the infinite

  

  saw but didn't manage to ask them for a photo (with permission) Have a ... manifesting for you all"](and also a huge congrats to those of you who have ... with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7IelL644Y0[/embed] And, there you have it, a 3 minute film, and it ... were tasked with creating a short film, about 3 minutes in length, from ... nice to celebrate being done with one part, and for taking time out of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line ... name starts with three syllables and ends with a vowel but this is false ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  "]brimstone[/annotation].  For the past year and a half, I’ve been working on my current UROP with ... a long night of experiments and smacked myself a couple of times with ... ’s generous help, we spruced up the paper and submitted it with a couple minutes

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  , to dealing with bad authority—both the principal and the new ... live in places with better resources, infrastructure, and support. A main ... that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  you came into some people's lives for a quick burst and then flaked out ... spring. The people I interacted with became a small group of friends and ... two different dorms) with a good roommate. I had more time, and I was

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  with the same people. Moving at a [annotation note='For those of you who ... your application goes spiraling into a dark, anonymous vortex, and after ... and advocate for students. We might be crusty, but I’d say we are warm

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man ... On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  with any underlying meaning, and merely end up with a contrived essay ... . This is a nuance that I don’t think that many students, parents and ... a distinction between submitting an application and trying to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for ... with family friends and in writing the blog entry. It seems like such a ... major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead ... traveling with a buddy: our mascot, Flat Tim. He’s not great company for those ... . He's reinforced with a file folder and covered in packaging tape to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  wrong with MIT, and how they think we should fix it. It was 3:15pm last ... ’t come back with a monologue about how admissions actually work at MIT, and ... as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella ... 've been able to sit with you in your home and hear a snapshot of your life ... , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011