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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  similar in these ways but I hardly ever find anyone that I can look up to ... ’s not my class speaker 😔 I can’t imagine anyone better — like where will ... , daring, and curious. I can’t think of a better speaker. You never truly

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  that apartment dwellers can use to split a bedroom in two to save on rent ... wall to change in size. I was my team's Information Officer, which meant ... made me HTFP, but in the end, I absolutely loved it. I built this crazy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... . And because I like biology, but don't necessarily want to work in a ... year I was majoring in Course 20, but recently switched to CMS as my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... would like to live in them (1 = I WANT TO LIVE THERE! 17 = I'm a guy, you can't possibly expect me to live in McCormick!). You submit all of your

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  in emailing the CEO to ask for an internship, but can I have one?" The ... INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  activities MIT is offering this year. I obviously can’t speak much about events other dorms are running, but I can talk at length about East Campus ... anything. where’d we go?, on 8/27 at 11 PM: Hm, I wonder… Make your own

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead ... lights. (I was temp'ed in EC during CPW) How much is the real MIT like that ... and 8 nights was the itinerary, if I recall correctly. We would camp in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  in high school, I'd pictured myself on a pretty green campus with ... ="alignright" width="300"] steps of the fancy majestic Lamont library, where I used to ... excellent study environment. I don’t mind working in corporate corners of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I ... , suggesting I put triangles in the black and white spaces in the "W","X", and "M ... serif). So since I couldn’t change it, I made alternatives. In fact I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  together into one photo entry so I can move on with my blogging life (and ... DID YOU KNOW? Tyra Banks is 5'10" tall and weighs 161 lbs. I am 5'9 3/4" tall and weight 150 lbs. I have taken a cue from fellow blogger Lulu and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a ... of interest to underleveraged students in the developing world, then I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  highlighted in transparent red — like “explain” is, here — you can hover over it ... backgrounds, and only if they can demonstrate that [annotation note='In other ... the term, over the last decade or so, just in terms of things we can

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  have asked them, haven’t you?), our ECs can be busy. Getting in touch ... around the corner. While I hate to distract you from the application ... mention school and real life), I do need to mention one vital part of the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a ... , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this ... if it won’t intersect with it. In my example, I’ll draw the third ... zonotope themselves. Notice how, when I drew the edges in this example, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking ... instructors told me each experiment we do in 6.2410 (around two hours each) can

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  sea in Antarctic winter after living without food for 120 days. I set my ... television in front of my treadmill. Sure, I lost a little by not hearing Alan ... packed up and headed home. Still, I got to see the line where Tim Allen

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  the amount of digits we can commit to our long term memory. Therfore, in ... ’s determining the location of where we are in the world, the area connecting to a ... can connect with numbers. Even on a given street, we are unique in our

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011