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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  2 pounds, I might end up only using 1.7 or 1.5 effectively. I wanted ... hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a scarf wrapped tightly around my ears, listening to an audiobook or music

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  their length and score. "We're very data driven here, so we're going to ... student's abilities. M.I.T. will not consider SAT writing scores next year, but will require writing scores the following year. The university will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  additional mile or so."]objectives:[/annotation] [carousel image1 ... fun things, like [annotation note="there will be many blogs about this ... 'm constantly trying to reach out to friends just to talk, it might be because I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  occasionally buy real food myself, like frozen pizza or premade cookie dough. But ... Joining committees on the UA or TechX that have food budgets Bakery ... , unsanitary, or unethical, and should be avoided. However, there are still an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  . I hope the rest of you will similarly find this useful. "MIT is just ... you should really ask yourself about MIT, just to begin with: 1. Do you ... , do you think you will be able to complete the core sequence of 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  Engineering) Subject Requirements Is 6-9 more Course 6 or Course 9 ... students who study Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Science (EECS) and ... (also known as theoretical neuroscience or mathematical neuroscience) is a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  -spaced pages in Word later, everything made sense. Or at least I hope it did ... - Page 1...3...7...8...9. Once I got to page 9, I flipped back to page 1 ... 9 pages of absurdity (on my part, since I left 1/3 of the test blank

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  will lose, but it takes another twenty or thirty minutes for that to ... summer. One thing I've noticed this summer is the presence of what I will ... and years of musical training; the challenge of (or failure to) playing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone ... ? Before you set up to weld, you turn on the fan or open a window, so fumes ... you clamp your pieces down, track where your welding gun will go, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  , engineering, or another field of study at MIT. This major includes a three-subject exposure to an allied field such as science, or comparative media studies ... culture. Discussions focus on students' writing and address topics such as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  gabbing about everything from data visualization to volunteering to the perks of living in the Bay Area, we reached a sudden lull. "So, do you ... engineering knowledge.) And our conversation reached a natural end after an

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  planes or handles private data or shoots rockets into space. Engineers ... ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People ... , passes appropriate tests, and does not diminish quality of life or privacy

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  , and Social Science. The report, written in the historical context of ... short, to de-velop men as individuals who will contribute creatively to ... historically designed to advance a democratic agenda. When people ask me what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  , everyone has taken (or will at some point take) Physics and Calculus but no ... of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to ... someday own one or stick to the idea that they are too much space and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  schools will ask you to address other or similar qualities as I've listed ... Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my ... for an admissions or selections committee is HARD. It's not like

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  feeling pretty fancy then. At last, I reached the Simmons sponge. I leaned ... . Carefully, I reached for the roach’s domain and shook the shoe with the ... ’t looking? For a blissful moment, I breathed in peace. Then I reached my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  recipe. Potato Soup Chop four carrots, three or four stalks of celery, an onion, three or four large potatoes, and one leftover pork chop (or ... broth.       Add broth (any broth; we used chicken stock). Simmer ten

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  squeezed lemon in your fridge, which will dry out as the hours go by. Or, the ... myself,[/annotation] watching a lot of cooking shows or YouTube videos as ... everything they’re also mine, for now. I won’t go into things like pots or pans

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  lessons that unfold not from pulpits or pedestals, but emerge from the ... popularity seemed to surge during periods of exams or difficult homework, and ... . This was a lesson I didn’t have, or need, to think about until recently

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for ... a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you ... 3-108 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 We will grant a deferral for almost any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007