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• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how ... then had it disbanded because of problematic school administrators? Do ... had made it to their senior year of high school (when many others do not

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Olympics). We entered every event offered. We won most of them, but I think ... mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing ... Buick Regal — not the whole car but about 200 parts (which is about 1% of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  , keep these hints in the back of your mind. If your high school / current ... a sophomore now. Yes, I haven't heard that term since high school.) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As ... Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  of violence, not some petty high school falling out. But as my ... . It still feels foreign to me, to think that this group of high school ... ="MIT offers a special opportunity for students to acquire a masters degree in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  culture-jamming “Design Noir” philosophy. The first is a pair of glasses ... As many of you know I am a FIRST Robotics nut and Kool-Aid drinking member of the Kult of Kamen. One of the (many) things Dean Kamen has said

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  I never ended up sticking with them. Outside of School -many ... note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... Friday afternoon, but I’d always come out of it with a cool device, feeling

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  using an algorithm designed to maximize the number of people in their ... unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... elementary school experience, here's a literary analysis of "Peter Rabbit" from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  most of the processes. The class seems to be designed for business and design students, and I was one of few engineers. However, I found that I ... make up lost time outside of class. Designing a cactus lamp This project

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  numerically by course (in the School of Science, it went 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 18 ... a late major in the School of Science. On the bright side, I didn't have to be at the staging area until an hour after those poor School of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Associate Carl Martland, from MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental ... introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  elementary school students' test scores with the size of their shoes, you will ... school who applied to MIT. Two got in. Both of them are xylophone players ... does your computer offer you in comparison to how many units of utility

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  national championship with a variation of my design. I still remember the day ... highs and lows of being an MIT student and everything that comes with that ... spring break together and we kept filming. When I got back, I had a ton of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  ."]abroad.[/annotation] Some of the international scholarships in the UK would offer 2 years of ... side, I was often choosing between schools/programs that offer “Mech ... schools I looked at. A friend of mine is applying for grad schools in a more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  it to the blogs. Robert is passionate about web design and development ... many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their ... in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I hope you enjoy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  a 45 degree angle to the left side of the paper, so it's basically ... reminded me of my parents, who are one continent and one ocean away. So, on a ... 're still with them. This is especially true for all you high school seniors

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  -by-play of my year so far. After I graduated from high school in June '07, I ... have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... school/Talibe center I volunteered at (photo courtesy of Lauren Scott

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make ... My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends ... idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005