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• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me ... turned out to be a decision to not take two additional classes. I wish I ... to understand that it takes physical presence to build a home away from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... responsibility is now yours to form a student-teacher relationship. Otherwise they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  few weeks ago, I made a trip to 7-11 in a shirt, a long jacket, and no ... downstream. But I had a map in hand, and I was determined to reach the X I had ... myself a lot of questions. What do I want to do with my life? Once I find

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  baby brother’s first girlfriend or something you might need to clarify a ... yourself, too. Take a step back, and while reading your essay, try to answer ... Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ... to track, and a racing car seat and harness attach rider to car ... EC to BC someone whizzes past on a three-wheeled electric skateboard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... , invitations to test food experiments, and a memo to the person who left their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,100-person team to climb a very interesting ... part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept

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

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... avoid such maulings.) So, to end on a sappy but true cliché that the ... makes you a candidate to attend MIT. Just find things you love to do, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  halloween down the infinite

  

  close to the sun, because whoever thought that starting to write a blog with 30+ photos at 11:30pm is a good way to get a blog out on time is ... Daughter holding a mystery box to collect candy – so cute but they are not

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 1, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... done. It's just a crawl to the end of the school year before you can do ... tend to do a lot more thinking. The weather is colder, usually snowy (it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another ... was finished I realized that it was also a nice nod to Course 6. Tiffany ... ! After the ceremony, I met up with my family and we went to a couple of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  experience and exposes you to a wide range of types of people and cultures (and ... fulfill my wanderlust. While it is great to do MISTI for a summer (they just ... to the GECD. To try and entice you a different way, I will leave you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For ... focus of attempting to gain admission to a specific institution or type of ... admitted to the class. Even though they are certainly right, I am quick to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a ... , and now all of a sudden I was going to see the President! On Thursday ... to campus I noticed that it was a little more difficult this morning

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015