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• Blog / Challenges

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  with machine learning. i am also a counselor for promys. it’s a math ... the other day working on puzzles from the latest p&a magazine. i ... and its tendrils for instilling this belief, i played a part in it too

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into ... .But to me MIT is like a T800's mission: It's about the people. I've met ... about one such awesome opportunity I snagged through being a superb nerd

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... writing this post. c. I was given a full-size Kit Kat just before the 8

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 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

  

  MIT for a long time, considering he's from Massachusetts. I guess maybe ... young for TMNT?), I decided to profile my endlessly put-upon boyfriend, Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test

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

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry ... . Ignore the deadlines for a week. Fret over which offer you'll take. Weigh

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... . Also, the pset and exam somehow cover different material. And I have a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the ... tournament by Rowan University. This week, I met with two players from this

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• 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 ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... the Charles River was through a downpour, when I was temped in Mac

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

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  rappelling from the ceiling of the auditorium; my team's involved a real ... ”.   A photo from the Build Challenge.  Students sketched out ... ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  meet back in 5 years. I propose a semi-joking plan to export organic rice ... , where I did a project about different types of coffee brewing methods and ... can achieve the steps from plant to flour. Exporting needs to be figured

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  . Without getting too into detail, so you can see for yourself, it's about a ... only took roughly two weeks to make. I'm not a professional, far from it ... -and-outs of making a film—from the very beginning of storyboarding and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  whole lot easier said than done, but don't for a second doubt your worth ... realities come from big dreams, we are sure that you are on a great path ahead ... heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  read an old MIT brochure from the 1980s I discovered at a school I ... majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... at age 17, we don't expect that you've discovered a cure for Alzheimer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  hat on it. (EDIT: For real. I got him a Nintendo DS Lite, a new pocket ... pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student ... professors from my program -- it's considered rude to ask a graduate student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  answer you’re looking for. I wish we could just give you a perfect black ... our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my ... grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... celebrate less than 100 days left at MIT!   a few days ago i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest ... early international students. I'm an immigrant from Ukraine, so it was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017