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• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  . Finally, we ended up with a beautiful prototype! (Don't forget- Beauty is in ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  would also acknowledge that a relationship that is based upon being ... that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  of you who are intrigued by what is in my opinion a highly bizarre ... . The sophomore I taught to square numbers is one of a hundred kids in ... country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  and crafts Mitra and Bryan took a trip to China in 2010 with other ... . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  and others: Not everyone who has a romantic or sexual interest in you ... that you know. How do you determine if someone is not interested in a ... , intelligent people in a single place. It is a good place to meet people you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  (published in 2004)—this one is based on Dehn’s original proof. “A New ... grandfather, who was very, very dear to me, emphasized to me that there is a lot ... actually see all the many branches in high school. Math is a human and even

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a ... decide between majors is to take classes in them! Pick a HASS class, like ... people who've been in a class for three weeks before realizing they weren

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  designers in various disciplines who work at different scales and lab sessions where we refine our own design skills in a series of increasingly complex ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  live, and how to live ethically, and how to live in a way that is very ... immigrant. He is laid-back, friendly, with a subtle sense of humor. When I ... they narrow in focus. If the panel that night had a theme, it was hope

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  interested in for a while (Reinforcement Learning), and the professor is also ... fun labs.  In non-pandemic years, there is also a camping trip!! The ... listing 205 classes and why they loved that specific class. Here is a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... to my room and feel like there was a sinkhole in my stomach. It was ... felt like I was carrying a lot of stuff at once. It was so ironically in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... admissions [I] have seen in [my] time, both as a student and as an admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a ... . The premise is that Jim Carrey is a really withdrawn dude who suddenly ... , losing yourself in your schedule; I think this is what a lot of workaholics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  details in the Joke Bezel that I didn't quite catch but here is a picture of ... this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  to Science Magazine, who published a study on my expected lifespan in ... elderly-person advice. (Although I am not as old as a postdoc in my lab who ... To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  the smoot is as follows: in 1958, Oliver Smoot, a fledgeling fraternity ... even worcester and providence in rhode island. colloquially, this is ... confusing"]Boston[/annotation] is a relatively small city, I have spent a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  closer together. hair in chinese culture, healthy hair is considered a sign ... ’re essentially defining somebody in a very one-sided way based solely on one ... benchmark of what is considered “good” performance in a class by the course

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... arrive in Harvard Square 10:01am arrive at L.A. Burdick's This particular ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  there is really not a difference in our process between someone who scores ... which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... math. So why, as the commentor asks, is there such a difference in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  small depending on who you ask. And if a major is big, it doesn ... your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... rendered it into a nifty yarn-based survey

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015