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• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  I never really liked 5.60, or thermodynamics. In my senior year, I ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... . Basically, 5.60 was a hedged bet, and as I hedged, time passed, others grew

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  , losing yourself in your schedule; I think this is what a lot of workaholics ... summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... conversationalist than partier. But that night I decided to drop in and see what folks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the ... candidates are considered. These are not hypothetical places. I have worked in ... for all. I grew up in Florida. The state is flat. There are no mountains

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  wonderful experience, and I wanted to continue in a broader capacity. Paolo: I’ve spent a long time at MIT thinking about education, both through ... , I talked a lot with Leslie Y. ‘22 (who was on CUP already) about

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... , as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend came into my room who had never seen it, and I had to educate her. For

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I ... new journeys. But as I get ready to start a new journey of my own, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about ... , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test ... , it was me). He's had a UROP in the Aerospace Controls Laboratory since

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  attempts, he was denied a commission in the service: not, Washington fancied ... ’t control what traits an admissions committee is looking for, or what mood a reader is in when they peruse your essay, or what the rest of that year

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  were strained to see what was about to happen. In a few moments the ... of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a ... about half a decade more, in which time two identical extensions would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here in 1980, and presumably hasn't left his lab and doesn't know what year ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  have a lot of freedom in adapting it, so I started with a literal sheet ... happening in nature like that. This was a fun little exercise, though I hope ... where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in Central Square, since 2013. I love living here in a way that I never thought ... my own tomatoes in a bucket on my stoop, but I can't really grow a lot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

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

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... it this far if you didn't have someone in your corner. For some it is a ... Much is expected. I can't tell you how many times I have heard

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... I was in third grade when those students were running around MIT), and ... . What started as a blind excavation through a mystery box of admissions

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  you aren't in a place where you can watch the video with sound. I didn ... I tried to create this video as something I'd want to hear as a ... bloggers, but I can't link to all the posts here. They're just a quick search

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on ... to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... the college admissions process. I spend a lot of time on College

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... the Charles River was through a downpour, when I was temped in Mac ... ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  this post were taken with a compact camera that I carry in my pocket.  I ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... ending. (3) Because in between classes, I might eat lunch in Killian

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... eighteen in a week; I feel like my spirit is aging more quickly than my body ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016