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• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  it impacted me quite a bit. with every new year comes an onslaught of ... promptly thrown into a slew of new experiences; they have to learn how to ... later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us ... , Research, Art, Architecture, and Sports). Now, this isn't new. Actually, we ... working on in their spare time. Maybe it was a really amazing new computer

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... decisions at the front end of this process. This meant that I was in a great ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  of metallurgy, you would be the most knowledgable individual at MIT on ... engineering. Brian was nice enough to offer some insight into the process at the ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  space where I could take risks and try my hand at a new craft without too ... dexterity, for getting out of a rut. I have a new confidence and a better ... Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  new person together, they almost always asks us at least one of the ... you get when writing the date on the first assignment of the new year ... ! That’s some pretty new territory on these blogs, but for us it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  morning. All I do, is read her the first line of my offer letter. "Dear Paige, On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to offer ... : "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  few days ago I had a lot of fun chilling with a few of you at Giant ... with my Legos; when it comes to you, you should explore all of your new school’s dorms and interact with as wide a variety of your new classmates

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of ... evening class, which was very relaxing because at the end of my class day, I ... all of us having played pickleball at least once before (and tennis not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  . Day-of, I still had a pset due at 10pm. Delivery started at 7pm. I finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and ... at MIT. We've been best of friends ever since. Bill P. '19, middle, was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  overlapping section- we should be best friends.  :) As of now, my existence can ... copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and felt myself distancing from the sciences, but expanding in my range of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  'll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me ... . They offered some anecdotes about their friends who were different people ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his ... was at the Burton-Conner boat cruise! No. Not this. This. Here ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... -ins? None that I've heard of. From my experience, there are so many things at ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  , design, and build their robots, which are then sent out to at least one of ... hours of information sessions at the MIT booth, and slumping in awe at the ... Those of you with memories slightly longer than the average goldfish

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  the lab of Professor Jianzhu Chen at the MIT Center for Cancer Research ... spend the summer of 2005 at NIST, studying the use of optical tweezers to ... 5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  . The scholarship must be used at an accredited institute of learning. For ... Talent Development is offering high achieving young people across the ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  usually performs in snuggies and Waldo costumes (check them out at one of ... Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a bunch of nerds who always wear hoodies and jeans!). Tonight, Kappa Alpha

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  transparent plastic top, this nautical party ship cost all of $10.99 at the ... My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009