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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  out the way it was meant to be. I spent more hours than I would like to ... important to spend in those final months before you move to college. In the ... trying to predict the future than fully enjoying the present. I write this

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  ;grad students” worked long hours and seemed to get cool results ... the papers? What does the abbreviation “PhD” mean to you ... that entails? Coming to MIT, I didn’t really know the answers to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  and he worked with them for about 9 hours (!) to create a design that ... lectures and one 4-hour lab a week. During the lectures, Professor Slocum ... inventions, since I came to MIT to learn from creative engineering gurus like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to remember that I am a writer. I seem to enter this phase every time an important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  thing is important to explain, too. The school has lots of ways to ... '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... continuing to tell the world that Political Science at MIT is ranked 10th in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into ... meet resistance, lower arm to target. Focus on the front sight. Without ... I skip pistol class to fly to Los Angeles (don't worry, Mike is cool

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  blogging more and yet don't want to spend my free time blogging more. like, i've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours ... over fifteen hours in the game oops. anyway, here's a small post about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  important changes in policy. This week, his job is to prepare a delegation of ... introduces us to important vocabulary. The deficit, for example. Non ... importance of your work to your local district. Make it a two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... entirely sure how to go about tackling the last one. The motivation to write, though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  important items that engineers should add to their personal wish list. Now it ... MIT. Tony hosted “office hours” to help the participants fine ... blur, and within an hour I got an email congratulating me on making it to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  time than most questions I encounter on an hourly basis. I started to ... in order of importance if you don't have time to answer them all. It ... department paid 11 bucks an hour, which was increased to $12/hour over the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  negatively to the organ variant to guide our search for moral principles. Does ... , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to vanish into a world somewhat tangential to reality, somewhat well

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  ,200 rides and 150 hours in the past 3 years, and I do not intend to slow down ... Texan mind could barely comprehend using anything but a car to get around the city when I first moved to Cambridge. Three years have passed since

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ... practice for a few hours to play the sport I love. There’s nothing better ...   Friday night I went down the river to the annual MIT- Harvard

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  community. This means walking down the hallway to greet smiling friends, then ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence lifts to reveal a fascinating life. I have found my perfect match, my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  Jackman really seemed more important to me. I then fell asleep during my ... an hour before deciding to go back to sleep. But I digress. Did you ... to the onion mixture. And then I served it with a little sour cream on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  to colleges as well. But it's important to take down-time, too. Some time to relax, to enjoy your dwindling time with high school friends, to ... in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i still had one or two hours every day to occupy my brain with something ... to add to my portfolio, and most importantly, i learned some new things!

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  , “impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... overtook me. I could not do math. I failed to comprehend chemistry. I wrote

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  . Decide What’s Important. MIT allows applicants to enter five activities ... Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... had fun, and sufficient challenges as well. Now you’re ready to move on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014