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• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we ... guess my point is - all of you heading to MIT soon, GET EXCITED 'CAUSE ... up on first impressions… I’m constantly in awe at how different someone

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  can be attributed to how course selection in college is a double-edged sword. One side of this sword is that the large scope of courses you can ... and outside of college, it feels like you can be chained to what your

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be ... interest in physics, even if you don't plan on majoring in course 8. At the very least, it will make you question how the world around you works. In

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  kicked in; I'm allergic to pretty much every type of tree you can think of ... precise—but there are paths and maps, so you can explore with some semblance ... the first time! Established in 1872, it's the oldest public arboretum in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time. You see, I've been very hosed this IAP. "But it's IAP," you say, "How can you be hosed?" Well ... system control techniques. As you can see if you look closely, and know

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  time, and you can be recruited into junior and senior year. My entire ... scholarship? Does the school offer the majors you’re interested in? What conference does the school play in (what teams would you be playing against

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  somewhat okay, but you can never be too careful. In public, Jebby and I both ... than I can count on my hands in Boston, and have been absolutely ... Note: Anika drew Anika and Jebby drew Jebby. If you can't tell who

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that ... try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  . The end of the world counts as a stressful situation, in my opinion, but ... that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can be just as exciting as anything you may encounter in the sciences. You ... interests. To be a student at MIT means you can have these totally different

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  ... but you should also research the weather. I am still mentally ... in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  should have an idea.) And then I dwell on the fact that you can soon ... . And that’s also one thing you can’t change about technology: it won’t ever stop. You can stand back, observe - but eventually fall behind and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... ="113867" /] the days walk by and i wait and i wait, i wait and i wait for you to come and the leaves come and they leave and i stand by the tree where you

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  to CPW if you can! It played a huge role last year in my final decision ... work at it. If you have three tests coming up in next week, you might ... 't happen :) CPW is basically four days of nothing but fun, where you can

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  rules still haunt you in your writing. You can’t break them without a ... alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can ... in the woods for an hour, meditating in a special way. You watched a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In his second autobiography, published in 1991, Wilt ... contemporary music herself, said, "Okay, so, for the songs, you can do anything ... at MIT that you can be this sassy with all of your professors! I think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  potentially go on forever if the input is not in the language, and then you can ... , and see what types of models can solve what kinds of problems. In effect ... of time, and if you have an algorithm to recognize a language, it can

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... uses a lot of water. You can see in the photo above that there are two ... can be a little creepy at times, especially when you’re alone in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  just that good and that it could melt in your mouth like that. I can say ... where you can plan the classes you want to take every semester and keep ... experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  . And you should know that. It also resulted in me getting this delightful ... DID YOU KNOW? "This Jesus Must Die" from Superstar really sounds a lot like "People Are Strange" by The Doors. Hurry up, I think you only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006