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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . No matter how much of a challenge your target audience may be to reach ... involved with things is a lot of fun and normally not mind ... . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology. MIT's biology department, in contrast, is largely a biochemistry ... term, 7.28, molecular biology, is a joint grad-undergrad class; the ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  how to research a company, how to network, and more. Career Week also ... underclassmen, Career Week is a great first opportunity to line up internships for ... exciting when I was a student. Much like the college admissions process, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  There is probably a meter somewhere that measures how much fun you ... got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... ", a term coined in the film, implies that the movie is made under a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  safety is a huge thing in the US. Not so much in Europe. So the playground ... hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... hike up there. What they also have is a monument marking the highest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  decisions from colleges, but I don't think a few months is too much to ask for ... goes part 1: Random questions Akash asked a common question: "Is it true ... probably not true, though many publications cite this as a fact. It is a fact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT ... his personal spiritual encounter?" and "As a scientist, how can I ... Islamic point of view, the discussion...wasn't really much of a discussion

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  improving the site's usability. On top of creating a user experience that is intuitive and friendly to a younger age group, a lot of consideration is also ... because they are a strong deterrent to international communication." Much of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  quickly (she was slow.) Having handwriting that you enjoy looking at is a ... my lecture notes, there is a mixture of 1) abbreviated content (normal ... .012 Introduction to Biology - Day 1   // When Lander says that he is a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  exercise is a core component of how I maintain and improve my physical ... such a situation, the first reaction we might have is that of the ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  "pranks" I'm not sure how much I agree with the statement that hacks at ... semester, a class I profiled here. Last week, Time Magazine announced ... . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  whole time just f r e a k i n g  o u t about how cool it was and then ... how every single thing in the Gamble House is rounded (even the mf ... 've already noticed in the photos above is called a cloud lift: the Greene

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... - religious school instructor. There is never a quiet moment in his life, and ... lost"). So, sure, much of what I wrote is not visible anymore; it doesn

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  one of numerous youtube videos on how to be a ninja. (Thanks Rena. Wow ... exist as a digital copy in some stranger’s pocket. I can’t tell if this is ... Hyun '18, Ava '16, Cindy '18***, Rena '18 *** She is not a Giraffe. She

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  yourself with, because right now in your life SO MUCH is going to change SO ... wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from bloggers past about the very specific feeling that is awaiting your college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  , and crossed the St. Lawrence more than a few times. ;-) Quebec City is ... much out of a storybook :-) It's an easy two and a half hours from ... -- the difference in total time between air and rail is only a couple of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  model everyone wants to emulate. This is a hit with the audience. On ... borrow a friend's camera and walk over to the Media Lab. Today is the ... ; filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes is giving a talk.  It is beautiful. It makes me

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  to mourn how much things have changed, but a lot of what's happened has ... MIT: REGRESSIONS is a feature-length documentary created by Luke Igel ... portrays MIT in a way that is familiar to students past and present, and yet

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  of it. which is a little scary, because as much as i like that stuff ... now. i go to bed at like, 3 or 4 and wake up at 12, which is still a ... picking it up again but a part of me is afraid that i've lost the ability to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students ... . About a week later, I wrote an initial report to describe not only how my ... When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011