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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  walked back to New House (our dorm!) together. There, I met with the new ... , and get to know each other. The VP and I have been working together for ... with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  busy people still make the time to have unabashedly geeky fun together. ... . Pie Kits from Clover To celebrate all the hard work done by the whole ... kit from Clover Food Lab to make cranberry pies. [carousel image1

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration ... Gothic with our communal frog spoons) Then, things started to get darker ... person... Together, we added more and more gruesome details

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... floor above mine, one often subjected to the graceful fingers of Random ... , there was always a sort of merry, thoughtless deliberateness to my efforts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  're comfortable with chapters, you can put several chapters together to make a book ... adulting-oriented questions, because that's what I expected to learn, coming into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  From 9th to 12th grade, I was on my High School's FIRST Robotics team ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be ... value). My team's plan is to use the money to promote FIRST Robotics in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound ... fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to my ability to be interesting, to do interesting things at this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  aversion to enjoying “mainstream” culture, but I always shied away whenever ... winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and ... stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... quizbowl is, you can probably skip this intro paragraph and go straight to ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  1. Lamborghini recently brought this magnificent display to campus ... Strategy” award. (Poster next to car said: The cooperation between Automobili ... Sferza and Professor Carlo Ratti. THe collaboration already brought to Sant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  run-up to the S&L crisis. Here's what Lewis had to say about the path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  good time to talk about application process flexibility. We know bad ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply to college. We at MIT Admissions are willing to be very flexible with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  , dangerous game. Luckily, somebody had the foresight to bring bubble wands ... to his thesis defense in full uniform: Doesn't Professor Tester (my ... you had to be there. Russ may have also increased his chances of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  fox will make sense later[/caption] I want to major in computer science ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since it holds little relevance to my prospective major. computer science

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... often just to stay fresh on current admissions policies and procedures ... we go! Right now I'm just waiting for it to start, people are all

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  together at Shaved Noodle, Shana told Blondie that we were going to "check ... Hiya. So on my way back home to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I took the opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog post. Not exactly the best way to start the semester… But don’t worry – I’m back on my feet now! (Hooray for modern medicine!) Now allow me to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side ... work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  , recommendations, and all the rest - should work and flow together to create one ... the summer, I had ample opportunity to compile what may (someday) be the ... upon us, I'm proud to present you with - drum roll please - my very first

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005