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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  ’m Kevin, and I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the ... : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my ... being Benjamin Oberlton. I cannot say exactly where I am "

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• 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 in discrete math when I took it in high school and I absolutely hated ... confidence in my abilities as a CS person skyrocketed. I was an active

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... finished the pieces in this woodshop. It's really the most beautiful loft I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  'm pretty sure they don't actually see me at all in our room since I've been ... firehose? Well, this semester I can definitely attest to that. My course load ... classes are all tough, but I take some consolation in the fact that I didn

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... . Later life goals have less charm. In fifth grade I wanted to be President

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  the previous term, I moved in last and thereby got put into a pretty ... luckily, I did. You can all send Kaitlin thank you letters for saving the ... -Conner (as well as in Senior Haus, East Campus, Bexley, and I believe Random

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly ... . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  , and honestly, it can be hard to tell where to start. I spent a couple ... bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  So I'll admit that I haven't written in a while, and sadly, I have ... intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person ... on the weekend. With that said, I began applying to colleges where I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  -campus? Can I afford to move off-campus?  Why are people wearing shorts in the ... in. At the same time, this new independence has been exhilarating. I ... asked ourselves at some point in our MIT adventure so far.  And I assure

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I ... I'll get use to it in the future, but it's pretty weird. I'll keep ... know that I love video games and making video games, so naturally I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  managers can create to distribute to workers on the shop floor. I’m an intern with the IoT (Internet of Things) Systems team, where I work on building ... codebase somewhere in the office if I want to ask a question about a method

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  Annual Fall Fashion Free-For-All, an event where MIT undergraduates can ... moment I got the e-mail, I put it in my Google calendar because the ... Black Friday sale where I'd have to snatch clothes quick and fast and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  and learn about resources on campus where they can build things ... at the beginning of the year, I think the photographs that our freshmen ... is a freshman preorientation program (FPOP) at MIT, which I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  nature, you can be in practically any science/engineering major and get ... powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... nanotechnology, it’s quite understandable that many students are interested in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... . Even the dome was in the mood to celebrate the release of book 6. I ... instead of in my room, I spent my evening reading the book sitting on the

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  the Charles River, recently covered in snow, I can't help but feel ... point in the semester where I transition to being more excited about my ... 's a feeling that I haven't felt in a long time—even the most exciting of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  do want to put in enough time that I can see some progress every ~2 ... In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid. I ... . Fooooooood. I feel that most places can claim some sense of pride in their food

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024