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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class ... one hand (since the other holds on to the broom). We used a volleyball ... /Independent Living Groups. It was great to meet people from all over campus with a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  with a focus on (what else?) genetics. What I really want to talk about ... ? (By the way, here's a general rule to pronouncing MIT numbers: the ... listening to songs composed by Alexander Borodin. Borodin was a chemist by day

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 's difficult, of course, to generalize about a school of 4000 people, but I am ... repeat the whole process until you're happy with them. Give them to a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  this effort to grasp onto whatever bits of ec i could find, i collected a ... of windows, I want to live in a village. I want that now, Driving in ... , a group about to make a late night sevlev run, others mulling about

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email address that you used to register
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My ... . However, each assignment has a due date – what if I wanted to view all the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... felt like trying to pop a stubborn, unpoppable pimple. Before anything else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this ... demonstration going throughout the event along with projects to build a mini ... I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  meaning to get around to. Here's one to try if you have a DSLR. If you don ... I've been home for almost a week now and I've done nothing but sleep ... refuse to wear anything else.) I've slowly been getting myself back to good

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers ... .014: Calculus (single-variable) with Theory. Join me on a journey to 18-014 and ... entry to a helpful staircase. Gotta have a Coke down there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... thing that's cut off to the left of the photo- that's a phone booth. For

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front ... head about whether to censor the names on these posters. On one hand, a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal ... ."]met before[/annotation] but never had a chance to get to know well. I didn ... considering taking a Leave of Absence, compared to MIT students. This ended up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  (REST). Despite my majors, I still had to take a Biology class that was ... program I’m applying to, and expressed concern about not having a technical ... your opportunities or access to resources. In conclusion, here is a list

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a grocery store parking lot, a woman forced open my friend’s car door to ask

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool ... Ball and a Coming Out Ball to celebrate coming out day! Queer West Queer ... have a GAY ™ group chat where we are slowly* planning to enforce our gay

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  to has involved me working on abstract problems with my head in a book ... didn't make it a bad semester, just less bloggable. To touch on some of ... , which turned out to be a wild educational experience. I learned vastly

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  'm starting to feel like a real engineer and it's super. So yeah - putting on ... somehow manages to be adorable and make a 1.5 hour 9:30 am class interesting ... . On this particular day, Prof. Spector decided to start the class with a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to ... 's going to be difficult for a given student to stand out among his or her ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well ... and was immediately confronted by a colossal display for the Twilight series. A thirtysomething dad was scrutinizing a copy of the fourth book

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008