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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked: "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in becoming an MIT student???" I'd be happy to answer your questions (or direct

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  northeast arrive for the NEACAC conference. In the first session of the ... 've seen both of them present before on other topics, so I knew to expect ... case. Need blind admissions have allowed more students to have a chance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  ’t know what I wanted to write at first when Petey reached out for posts ... you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  was too lazy to go all the way down to the first floor, fill up my water ... SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 I primarily use my iPad, SLP-F9FD20PWLMX0 to take ... nothing more, SLP protested greatly when my friend tried to download Genshin

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  statistical methods to diagnose a problem, we will first want to control for ... House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... e-mailed her too, as they did to every parent of a Senior House

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  something is the first step to being really good at something”. It’s a little ... opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in ... some new spins. Then we learned inversions on the first day! It was wild ... you have something horizontal to hold on to, which makes holding

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  even a chemistry-biology major, as it was my first home. But coming to ... I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  those same qualities. Jot down the first answers that come to mind for ... words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I ... ’re condensing four years into 250-word essays. To do that you have to understand

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  to create a new piece. When it was first being installed, there was ... [by Emma Frank '15] Before I first visited MIT, I envisioned it ... going to get the highlights (as defined by me) here. If you’d like

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  their first 8.01 exam and realize that if they're going to change the ... vicinity -- there's nobody to talk to. When freshmen first get here, they usually spend their first few days staying up all night talking to people

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  know more about glassblowing than me, please feel free to let me know if ... class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat this class twice before moving to intermediate classes because it covers

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  't drink tap water from my dorm, I need to Brita it first. I can taste ... Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in ... information session, waiting to here all about two schools I've never been to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  , Autumn is slowly creeping in. You don't notice her at first - but there ... surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  the first time I've been able to contribute to a team effort, and I ... my UROP to experience Michigan and Collegiates for the first time. One ... Before coming to MIT, I had no idea if I wanted to continue skating

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  International student orientation started last week, and the first-years, or technically prefrosh as they aren't first-years yet, because ... prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  two reasons, the first being that I already go to MIT; denying my ... -British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with ... is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  first two), started by Jonathan learning the critic’s monologue from ... legit to me, although i might just be too generous with my judgment. he ... seemed like some Jonathan-like MIT kid who one day decided to write this

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  premise of the first one was literally just "mom said we have to get rid of ... involved when you're clicking between Zoom meetings, but students are able to bring the same energy to virtual events as they are to live ones! I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020