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• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning Delta. This simply means Learning Delta. Before you write in to challenge ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  ."]MISTI[/annotation] internship, I participated in Vardavar, a festival where everybody–men and ... to follow him down a flight of stairs. I descended into what can only ... check out the other repair stores in the area before coming back. But

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  , perfect mangoes. On Mondays, I'd eat a homemade dinner at 6 before my 7 ... 't listen to as much music as I know a lot of other people do, and my tastes definitely aren't as varied. I like to play the same songs on repeat. Like, a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  found my home in a place I’d never even bothered to consider before. Now ... to do, I went with her on a whim to what became the source of my wrench ... the time, I couldn’t exactly understand what was happening in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  explore things that I had not seen before. So don't judge a book by it ... going on, and I don't remember getting much sleep whether it was checking ... people that I would be going to school with for four years. I also had a

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  whenever and someone informs the team, "There's a guy in our base," I really ... conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  photos check out Paul Baranay's blog which should have them up soon. He's a ... real music. I checked the MIT Arts Calendar and saw that there was a Jazz ... . The answer: a loud and resounding thud. EPIC FAIL!!!! But I'm being

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  England, where I learned to work with people from a different culture and in ... . There I was, slaving over a 18.02 or 8.012 pset at 3AM, being really no closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  in Italy and Germany? Physics! In Italy I taught a unit on waves and ... tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of ... had a custom nametag made by Abby ’17 in which we suggested conversation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  published a paper in Science, one in Neuron, and one in Cell Reports. So I am ... Boston things one last time before I leave in September. And I’m hoping ... , majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  should be anonymous. It's a long and detailed entry, but I think it ... exactly what sort of healthcare they'll be getting at MIT. I've also added a ... . Long ago I spent a year at MIT (my “junior year abroad” in Boston) so I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  terrible excuse for a blogger if I didn't throw in a word or twelve about ... commencement address for the Class of 2008, as well as a response in the opinions ... -hand experience. Back in the nascent dawn of Fall semester, I joined the Tech staff

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  come up with a relatively elaborate menu. I paid in sleep for not doing ... . In a nutshell: I had a Junior Lab paper due the next day, which meant ... , encouragingly, "like a girl sticks out her boobs!" .......... I...what? No

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  Mural. I wish I had done this more in high school. Watch a sporting event ... testing showed"]   Participate in a sporting event. When I was in ... as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some ... to a friend about how, if i knew i’d live a long and healthy life in a ... try it, and i like it a lot so i might as well check it out my friend

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  ’t offer, while also giving students an opportunity to check out what other ... want to cross-register and begin the process just a few days before ... Art. And right before we were done talking, Danny asked, "Just wondering, in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in ... school classes, a strong academic foundation in high school both improves ... completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  .042, despite doing poorly in the class. It's ironic, because I actually had a C ... confidence in my abilities as a CS person skyrocketed. I was an active ... . I don't know what a stack is...or a heap...or any of those data

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  non-White with them. I visited my wella in Kansas a week before I went ... who lives in the city. Here's a photo dump/itinerary of what we did ... [annotation note="and yes before you ask I am a Good Pizza, Great Pizza OG

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  -made, the problems are checked a lot before they get put into the real game ... why the story did a good job. But I will not tell you all of it here in ... game touched my heart and made me cry in a happy way. https://www.youtube.com/live/DFFyI

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024