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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  workshops to introduce children to engineering), and Naga Biofuels (a biodiesel manufacturing plant that started as a way to supply energy to the ... several occasions, we took them out to a hot pot restaurant on Friday night

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  Hey yall. It's been a while. On Sunday June 21st I texted Ceri that ... on my Google Calendar has been blocked out to finish my Target blog and ... that I can do big fun things that contribute nothing towards my to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... th. There's a very, very fancy portrait of David Koch in the first-floor lobby -- or, I guess, there was a fancy portrait. Now there is a very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  my floor after an effort to microwave a bagel pizza went terribly ... pains and pleasures of MIT for yourself, and give me a chance to play host ... A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now, the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But ... Upon conferrring me my black belt, my sensei also handed me a ruler

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... . Tonight, I took a break from the work I'm continuing to do with the ... subcommittee was Ben and another student, a great team. The three of us worked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some ... arrived in the Admissions Office. For students for whom midyear grades are a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  recovered in a year) More on this later, maybe. If you want to sign my cast ... built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... Mateo, we’re at booth I22. If you’re around, feel free to stop by! It

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  feel like finding a new costume. Fortunately, I already have a bunch of ... ' Guild). Unfortunately, I'm hosed and indecisive. Conveniently, I have a blog (and a penchant for adverbs). This calls for crowdsourcing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper time, collapsed into a high-speed parody of months that used to stretch ... imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  got me an answering machine or a "so-and-so isn't home." Regardless, it was pretty fun, and there was a lot of free pizza and stuff to drink ... jump right into French 2 for the next term.) I have a 150-175 word

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most ... to watch a fellow Techie kick butt! Over, and over, and over again ... tonight, Trump decided to pick Randal to be The Apprentice over Rebecca, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i ... growing as a person at mit: that problem you had no clue how to do suddenly ... wanted to join—now conflicts with a class. or, it's saturday (or sunday

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have ... to be my advisor.) The first half of the class meets with a Chemistry ... scientist to take a sample of a substance and figure out the structure of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for ... Student Street. Follow the parade to a New Orleans Jam session for the MIT ... open to the entire MIT community and will be a great way to celebrate New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  everything I want into a cheat sheet, I have to get my handwriting down to ... a learning instrument in classes are there to encourage students to ... concepts without having to worry about whether or not a student was able to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  , and I wrote an art and design thesis. These credits congealed to form a ... for a MIT student (compared to the required 8 classes), but it’s mainly ... without. For the bottom tiers, I want to add a disclaimer that I don

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026