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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  meetings after that first one. He had worked with Loren S. ‘17 in the past ... work needed for this year, Chris had another producer in mind--Cowboy L ... including some of his own computer graphics work.   Loren, working

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles ... gather a group and sign up. So when Jebby did all the hard work of securing a slot this year, I had no excuse not to sign up. I really enjoy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... everything in between! Here is a diagram to slightly better (but definitely not ... this technical 'tvte, we have realized that we are just not all that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  [annotation note="Calculus 2 on steroids. More work for no extra credit, but you ... hard. Which it did. The people I did work with were already so accustomed ... rode their coattails by Psetting together and not really learning the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  or her work, and if it sounds like something you might be interested in ... graduate student living in your dorm. Mine does work at the Media Lab, and I ... that not all UROPs are advertised, so you should also take a look at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  's fascinating research on early Chinese students at MIT). I worked on the project ... , experts in their fields, hard-working professionals, and prominent ... number of mentions! Despite the yearbook claims, Mr. Paraschos was not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  learned, or at least not learned as well or in the same way, by working at ... Not long ago, I met with an admitted MIT student, whom I will call Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this just feels TOO IMPORTANT to NOT share with incoming freshmen that might ... was coming in. I knew Cru existed but not much about it, and after

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  As I'm sure those of you to whom this post is relevant will not need ... work to do that night, according to my to-do list, but I didn't manage to ... night, and the ton of missed work I had to deal with afterwards, but man

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  in charge that you’re not just great, but also necessary. For some, of ... , six years have passed. In the last angles, the ones I try not to look at ... ’ve aged; I’m not seventeen anymore. My hair is shorter than it ever was then

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , fairly rugged mountain - together. …We are emphatically not looking for a ... . Like one great big group test where we work to help one another, the ... are my friends, mentors, and family who constantly encourage me to not

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  . My sleep schedule, I feel, is about 2 hours later than normal working ... ‘safe’. But on the other hand, maybe I should really work on building a ... into the real world and work on real problems. I thought that maybe I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  possibly imagine must be at work here (or at least concerned with whether or not I'm at work); that, or the world just hates me. Anyway, I was ... turf war over my pillow. Yeah, my PILLOW. That I SLEEP ON. NOT COOL

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  , the blogs were not nearly the beast you see them to be now. I was ... 'm not sure whether I was happier finding out I got into MIT or getting this job. I loved the blogs very much, because they not only allowed me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  the scientific community we trust data and analysis, not assertions ... as saying that we admit people, not test scores, and that in any case there is really not a difference in our process between someone who scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  pressures working against me, and not a result of my true aptitude. I am a ... otherwise equal intelligence, his conclusion based not on sexism but on ... female MIT student publicize stereotypes that actively work against her

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... , not less.) I actually did go to IHOP and a few frats, played Super Smash

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... perfect class. Not the perfect class, but a perfect class. As Andrew

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn ... experience that may or may not suit your nutritional needs. For me, having a ... . Think carefully about what dining arrangement works best for you, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018