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• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  so many feelings. thinking about love and how relationships can be ... musical this spring! i have always loved musicals, and during my junior ... . but then covid happened and we never got to put it on in full, and in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  concerns? Etc. Look out... this one's going to be lengthy, and I'm not even ... food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food ... truck in front of Lobby 7; it's cheap and convenient, and really hits the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  visit a few more out-of-state schools—I’m from Maryland, and didn’t want ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch ... transfer to my most recent laptop and could only be found in my old Hotmail

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  because this particular episode flows better and will work nicely when ... , we all packed into the charter bus (and by packed I mean sat comfortably in a bus designed for twice as many people as we had) and chatted

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  visual arts presence here (and in the greater Boston area) is super vibrant! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork, and clubs like Infinite (fashion/design magazine), DAAMIT (digital art

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  on Bay State to get flour, and discussed void fraction on our way ... workshop has taught me to really lean into those feelings and that discomfort and so I have decided to share my (bad) poetry and my peers' (good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... string up 120 miles of wire and cable and set up over 1000 posts: they ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  ) CMS.621 Fans and Fan Culture (Ed Schiappa) My favorite class of all ... extensive blogpost on why I love this class and why this class is great. Ed Schiappa is a great professor and he's honestly helped me through so many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower ... -to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version ... mind. But now it’s gone and I love tetris!  A movie (“Tetris”) also came

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  people from countless states, countries, and religions all in one big ... and Christmas cards for admitted prefrosh, scrub spam off of our entries, and sometimes go to fancy hotels and talk about blogging. Another very

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  probably majoring in 6-1 and 7 who lives in Next House – my wing is either 3W ... be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... Station, to take a Concord Coach Line bus across state boundaries to Salem

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  ’s always so nice and sunny in California! Sure beats all the other states I ... was a new experience which led to a lot of frustration and more enthusiasm. This blog post will come in two parts: a genshin advertisement, and

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  It's been a rough and challenging December and semester overall, both physically and mentally. I learned a lot of lessons that have forever changed ... devoted hours and hours each day to psets as well as textbook reading

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  presidential election in the United States. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both ... 6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most ... ’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  “ptooie” because I don’t have a smartphone and I think data plans are a rip-off. And because I wish my desktop computer’s LCD screens would have a ... looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  compulsory, and shortly after I wiped the sweat from my brow, re-Velcroed my shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to ... will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  – How to Save a Life and Reese Lansangan – No Snow, both mentioned 2 times ... -up are Cheats and Munimuni, both with 3 songs. There's 5 songs that are explicitly covers: Minsan, My Body Is a Cage, Dear Kuya, Mamma Mia, and Hurt

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in psychology and cognitive science is extremely prevalent and ... famous results such as the dunning-kruger effect and the stanford prisoner ... details on experiment setup and validity you’ll have to look into it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies aka i ramble about logistics at for a Very Long Time

  

  ! Read it here: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute ... Announcement, the yearly blogs project to announce the time and date that MIT ... Near the end of IAP, this email thread was revitalized, and after the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 13, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  . People introduce themselves as coming from states, and not provinces. Back ... big stuff I’ve already seen or heard of through the American films and shows I’ve watched since birth, and that media consumption played a big

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019