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• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  , and we placed 9th at our most recent competition out of 90 teams. Our ... Motorsports is a combination of all the things I love most about being at MIT ... post of his own about his time on the team, so now we’re bringing it full

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual tour of Burton-Conner. Seriously. I took literally about 70 pictures of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the ... before finally learning that the creator of the short was a first ... ="🤷"]something?[/annotation] A month passed and I still hadn’t thought of the idea but, as it

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work ... slide of said powerpoint: [caption id="attachment_73362" align

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... outside of what I've always known get realized was really striking. I was ... who lives in the city. Here's a photo dump/itinerary of what we did

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  ) blog post about 7.S390, look at her photos of the final presentation, and ... ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... videos. At the time, I was thinking a lot about the foods I eat and their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  ***UPDATE*** If you're taking the SAT on the makeup date of 11 ... are currently processing thousands upon thousands of documents ... morning of October 31. We apologize for the inconvenience. Application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the ... recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math ... the required standardized tests. At MIT, we require the SAT Reasoning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  for EA applicants; the current status of your application is now shown ... a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... , we just know that we have not processed it. We will not look at your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  Now that our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the ... the status of your application components. The Application Tracking will ... we have not processed it. We will not look at your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  sort of relief. I didn’t like stressing over the election, but at least I ... against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous ... stressed, for equally obvious reasons.] It’s not as if I’m sad most of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  presented to the professors and panel of jurors at the final review??? Panic ... reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  voting, despite being aware of current events, I never participated for ... I had to miss a free, pre-screening of Be Kind Rewind AND a chance to hear the awesome director Michel Gondry speak (courtesy of LSC), and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... cover story. I'm so on to them.) I've always been one of those people who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  for at least 40 hours of desk service every week. Also, she's been ... . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  them. [Also, for those of you at MIT, the Muslim Student Association is ... anecdote about my first encounter with technology or science. Most of my ... (gasp!) and spent the better part of a year not always understanding what

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  that QuestBridge applicants often have at this stage: Q: What do I do ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what ... sure your full name and date of birth are included, as well as the word

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... accident. cronos learns one of his sons will overthrow him, so he eats his ... they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... little less than a month into living alone, that I woke up at five in the ... the fare to the driver. Thirty minutes later, I was at school, thirty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others ... planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most ... lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018