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• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was ... , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to ... titled Tips for Finding a UROP, as well as a series of advice and resources

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Since everyone's doing these kinds of "what i'm doing ever since my ... .io - online multiplayer version of "Draw My Thing"; given prompts, person must draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian ... the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous years for the classes of interest (thanks Cameron!) because if I’m going

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... time. (Which I loved, of course.) The people there are seriously the

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... I don't know about you, but I had a pretty awesome weekend. First of ... , I'm doing better in 3.091 too! Sort of. Just remember, it's all about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston ... . The schedule can be viewed here. One of the interesting shows on WMBR

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like ... moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... slow or quicken the progression of time. So here we are, four years from

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  amazing."]endgame[/annotation], pack my laptop, and head out of next house ... , 「本当だよ。」 i swear, that simple sentence hits harder than a pound of brick ... , my hall is quite weeb and a significant number of people have taken at

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  your schedule. Easy, over, done. However, the nature of MIT lends itself to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... seemed that way at first. I walked out of it with a horrible sinking

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  cause us to take back our offer of admission, but slipping too much could ... profile which gives us a bunch of info (courses offered, range of grades ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  solution she offers is simple: "Why can't you be a combination of all of ... ,[/annotation]my hobby of drawing didn't. I joined window painting, started sketching ... stories of younger me, they almost always tell me they’re surprised I ended

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  few of my friends are participating in - Spokes: Biking Across America ... necessary! Science! (a sample of classes: “The Algorithmic Beauty of ... from Turner, a fellow resident of my floor Burton 1, and the one who

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  daily journal to varying degrees of success. I tried to keep a diary when ... I started this blog post in the summer with the intention of posting it then, but the lists kept growing. Here are some of the things I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021