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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a ... super hero group is a bit easier than getting in. Bullwinkle Moose Yes ... "likes". Cornell is super jealous, and they started trash talking a bit

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use ... reproducing structural bias in data and AI, which is a huge risk for those of us ... , Catherine D'Ignazio, is even a professor at MIT! Oh god I'm old.  Earlier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  justice to how profound and enriched that time in life was.  A year after ... -learned how to write my name in Thai, and inquired with family. I learned a lot ... so much that can happen in any year, let alone a gap. Above are the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  ’ve learned that “just right” is pretty much only right when the judge scores a ... recall learning. In this way, TKD is not really much different from say ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  Now that things have calmed down a bit at work, I finally have some more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a ... , Johnson. This is, in my opinion, one of the most valuable events of CPW ... free swag and begging for your email address. You can get a sense of what

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  So Orientation is pretty much also a week of free food. The saying ... Playfair, we all headed over to the Student Center for a party with more free ... Match School and getting stuff ready for the upcoming school year. A lot

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  ...or taking a nap. Keep in mind, this is just my take on things. I ... fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... -nighters six out of seven nights a week. Here's what I say to that; yes, MIT is

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to ... QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  reference: In reference A, Theorem 5 is said to follow from The­orem 3 in ... education for free in only a year" by dedicating themselves to online ... classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... swept up in the competition. But I can't tell you enough how much better ... incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  depends on how much you can handle. What you are interested in. Your preferences, if you have a grip on them in the first place. How much you are ... . Music and laughter. There is so much to see, to feel, to live in. To write

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  , HSMC, SUMaC, HCSSiM, and YSP. This by no means is a comprehensive list ... immersed myself in a truly diverse environment. It was a truly life-changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  is insane. In that moment I realized how rich the world is, and how ... spend time in anther country. It’s difficult to justify spending a ... ’re studying at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid, living with a Spanish

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  question the world around me; however, in day to day life it is often hard to find other people that will listen let alone participate in a ... assume everyone you meet is more than ready to hop right into a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  . And we want everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the friendly and welcoming community found at MIT. In the video we feature Spanish ... . Go ahead and read through them, feel free to share them with your

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  community. (This last one is a bad idea - with such a low admit rate, it ... myself.) The "hate" part is simply that there aren't enough hours in the ... . Anyway, you guys hang in there and try not to worry too much. For those of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  **much harder than I thought it would be. I'm not sure if this is a common ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... someone who is terrible at extinguishing hope. no matter how much i try, i

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020