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• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  about my experiences now and how I won't place so much meaning on them in ... high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in ... , everyone is a nErD!!1!!1! Being smart was no longer a distinguishing identity

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  demographic makeup of the competition. "I forgot how much of a sausagefest DBF ... has more girls than guys." She had a point--the MIT team is in the ... competition is a "tech inspection," where the airplane is inspected on the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  heal, not again. as much as i want to laugh at how emotional this writing is, and as much as i want to look at this paragraph and say that i was ... during these times, when it feels like everything in the world is falling

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  I don't quite fit in. But it's become so much of a habit that I truly ... conversation. Maintain a conversation. You're a fucking human being, how hard is ... existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  #6. Notice how much more into the salsa dancing he is, compared to me ... teach us how to dance. After we learned some (not so) basic steps in lines ... Masters in Course 16: Aero/Astro) held an engagement party last Saturday at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  significant weight in the process. If you have something that is a significant ... conducted - is it done in a day, or over a period of time?" We are still ... , and certainly being born in 1988 is not a problem for the Class of 2009

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

   size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a good bound on $A$ itself? The answer, in 2-dimensions, is quite immediate ... sets in $\mathbb{R}^2$), and in fact it is! To see just how good out

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  , no secret agenda, no harm. 

The application is in a section that ... a wonderful institution in so many ways and no matter how you choose ... his mom, when he won second place in a local filmmaking competition for

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having ... that you wish to change from EA to RA. Financial Aid is a different ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  restrictions and rules of being in a sorority. I don't know how much I can talk ... placed me in a box. Quite literally as much as figuratively. Being a dorm ... 't know, glassblowing is a notoriously difficult class to get into. You have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  closet, playing a video game in my room. All the hangouts and trips and ... people; yet, despite interacting with more people in a day than I would in ... . MIT is a very exciting place. For most of the things you'll be

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time ... plan so far is 14.03, 14.32, 14.74, 21A.348, and 21L.003, but I'll blog ... suggest that they, um, need lessons on how to dress and flirt. Matt not only

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but ... is a definitive end, and a specific course of understanding. Here on

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  Policy for Washington Interns, which is a small class in coordination with ... room. We had a fire alarm go off in[annotation note ... leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other ... in psychology and cognitive science is extremely prevalent and ... Performance and a Decrease in Age Bias. one more paper on VR identity illusions

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  person adapted to a new environment in ways I don’t even fully notice much ... unfolded in this city, but learning to let go (and to let grow) is a skill ... I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  a bit in laser cutting already, and the point of it is to minimize the ... ="things you'd find in a typical machine shop"]shop tools,[/annotation] like CNC ... 'd present at the end of May in a big Open House that anyone could attend

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  system. (I introduced this to you sometime in February.) Our effort is ... so far. Technically it's a grad class, and yeah the class is about half ... to "be mobile," in the sense of exchange of information in a mobile

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  .009 (Product Engineering Processes), a capstone product design course in Course 2 ... Sense, a wearable for firefighters that can detect if a room is unsafe to ... to play together (brochure) Pink team: Volti, a hands-free music page

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  warmth of a memory feels so much more translucent, transparent, in ... wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable ... ’t going anywhere. this is my third summer in boston, because i was here the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020