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• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  more than 10 minutes in total duration. Can I submit three recordings of ... tl;dr Today I’ll be answering your questions about MIT portfolios in the comment section below. To tide you over before questions come in, I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... . Come on, help me out. In other news, I finally figured out how I'll be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  sprinkle the remaining photos in somehow.) ;-) I was dining in Providence ... everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started ... terribly interested in the core freshman classes -- I mean, really... my life

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when ... Abby 2018 In 2021, my top song was The Monster Mash, and I listened to ... in March and then life happened and i didn't exercise in that way

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  , so maybe I'm not a mad scientist. But, when people ask me where I am ... in high school and I think the Romans are ridiculous and really ... there’s minimal homework and free lunch! I worked in an NIH Clinical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  loudly in my ears that I'm not sure if I heard anything he said, but here ... 're a meme!) and I can report that it is truly bizarre to watch Neil de ... &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  . When I walked in, there were 20 +/- 2 girls sitting on the floor, wearing ... , which meant that I couldn't see myself in the mirror - a blessing, as I ... direction. I stumbled left. Ashley stopped, and tapped her feet in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... finished today. Speaking of starred items, I between taking that photo 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... transcript follows] Me: I think I'm taking intro class on programming in C. Linda: I took it last year. The problem sets are hard. Me: Really? It can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  upsurge in handmade apparel. I can't deny I am included in that group, with ... keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art ... robot competition, and tomorrow I will take my first class in Toy Product

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I ... , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  sometime during high school, but in 9th grade, I was still intent on ... do black holes have angular momentum?” and “Can I time-travel?” and ... audience that I have ever seen in 10-250, one of MIT's biggest lecture halls

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  . The program is open to all children ages 6-13 in the Boston area. I will ... , doing arts and crafts, swimming in a lake- summer camp gives kids an ... have a parent who has died from cancer, is currently in treatment for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  " graffiti in corinth       wow I can't believe those ... For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... horses and other quadrupeds (note: these were in every museum. I took

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  not yet stepped foot on campus, I hope you can make it next year! ... In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... symposium that I attended on Friday was quite a different assembly. Held at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that ... cones, sharp-beaked birds, and points.) In four weeks, I'll probably tell ... how magnetization is like a covariant vector. Ex: Me: “Hey, can I borrow

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  that anything was amiss. I think you see where this is going. In fact ... already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... represent and protect the goals and interests of all undergrads in an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  for being my number one support system that I can always turn to. We ... professors, thank you for seeing the potential I sometimes didn't see in myself ... in this time. So do that if you can.   One behalf of ‘Tute Airlines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  weeks. If I can summarize this section in one sentence it would be the ... swept up in the competition. But I can't tell you enough how much better ... I struggled with the most. When you're in classes all day and doing

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am ... you can be the best you can be during your time here. In the end, it

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012