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• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  "innovation" as their highest-weighted judging criterion. A national science ... maintainer. I'm graduating in two months. Did I leave my mark on MIT as a ... C. '26, Diana S. '25, Julia C. '25, Lumia N. '24, and the many, many

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

   click here to watch it in its natural environment. In particular, there are two ... , I jumped on board. So for summer 2013, I served as a National Expansion Coordinator. The middle school program had just gone national for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies Floor 2 East was the base for the 2^n cookies operation, led by Adriana J. '20 and Nadine E. '22. The goal was to reach n=13! That's 8,192 cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  Last December, I wrote Two thousand students walk into MIT, a blog ... one or two people," Emily C. '22 told me, when we talked about directing ... short, two-minute sample of their class. Interviews took around 20 minutes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  than others it wasn't as if I was about to vote one off of the island ... tough retrosynthetic analyses. Two weeks into my strictly-course-5

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  still form functional tissue. We filmed my video over the course of two ... of jawbreakers. 1 hour and 4 stores later (La Verdes, Shaws, CVS, and ... Meeting a pizza guy and bringing food upstairs The last two were probably

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  guy getting his bagel from LaVerdes could be a MacArthur fellow, whose

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  that he didn't get those two scores together -- the time he got a 710 in ... skiier since he was thirteen -- at the time he applied, he was nationally ... test scores, or research experience, or being a National AP Scholar, or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  ’m taking only one technical course and two humanities courses. That’s because ... a UROP on the DCP team at the Media Lab has really helped (those two ... wasn’t stressed out about the first two, because my eyes were always set

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  even worcester and providence in rhode island. colloquially, this is ... two times I took the Green Line to the end, because that’s technically a ... Boston T. For my first two years at MIT, this bridge had been partially

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us ... ,[/annotation] but it was telling us two key things: 1. we can get free art from mit

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  -state orchestra,[/annotation] qualify for National Science Bowl for four consecutive ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... last two years of high school, I ended up coming out to a lot of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  ’s support of the international and immigrant members of their community. Two of the students from this post are from the Middle East and two are ... , highlighting his popularity, there were two obituaries about him published in one

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  disastrous dates, you’re probably still nervous: decisions come out in just two ... ’s floor, creating both a tripping hazard and a gloriously effective slip-n

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  College Confidential results threads from the past n years into an Excel ... ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  ?), I started my essay from scratch. The next two or three hours were a ... college trip. Even in a nation governed by socioeconomic class, I believe

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  would also say to me, in Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), “we ... felt I had two cultures instead of half of each of them. There were only two types of first-generation children. The first kind didn’t appreciate

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  thought the room couldn’t get any louder, but then the two 2019 Ring Chairs ... uproar seemed to increase by 10 decibels. They came up, two at a time, to ... into the theatre). And the two Ring Comm members that were on stage at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  wish I'd thought of every class block as a precious commodity. I have two ... turned out to be a decision to not take two additional classes. I wish I ... worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory all summer, and when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013