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• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  to ride a bike for the first time. I was wobbling, even toppling over ... brain that’s always asking why. For example:  Why do I have to squeeze ... fasteners, to put it all together.  For example: I need to see if this pin

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... quotas or targets for any racial or ethnic group, but we can take steps to ... context. We believe it is crucial for the successful future of our world to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  1970s, waiting to be excavated by some admissions officer 50 years later ... directly to the Office of Admissions the FINAL APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , Lilly, and Petey for some CMS-related thoughts. Extra thanks to Mark, the CMS librarian, for the literature references. Thanks to Lumia and Paolo for commenting on drafts. Thanks to Wayne for snarking on drafts, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... even taken to court and threatened with jail time for hacking. More incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... building across, as though afraid to head there for a Biology Final it hadn ... Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  ’s recruitment team spends a ton of time over the summer to get everything ready ... sorority life in general. Be prepared for some long days! You will talk to ... mapping out my Course 2 classes, to prepping me for internship interviews

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  this time, at eight o’clock, I still had a ton of things to do and I ... -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... economics class in addition to everything else, and it was too much for me to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  to the bottom for my concerns about how COVID-19 will affect FSILGs and ... table, it was convention for the cook team to gather at the base of the ... roommates, Dayna, wanted to put on a tea party for the house. I wasn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to take, since my schedule for senior year is already so packed ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... to the new environment weren’t easy! I also received tons of emails of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  well for different styles of cuisine, how to utilize different techniques ... scripts and formulas you can use. Base Knowledge For you to be able to ... , cover the pot and reduce the heat to low, let simmer for however long it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  -turning Rush shirts for a while. I don't want to make the Admissions Blogs all ... for construction in 1923, and opened to students for the first time in ... has stuck with MIT for the last 65 years, and has led to a rough

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  parents face. For me to weigh in on the merits of an individual applicant ... out who I am. I don't need to assimilate tons of information accumulated ... I need to know typically comes together in a nice, tidy package. For

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  restaurants in Boston; decisions about when to turn off the heating for spring ... days) for an email. In my case, the collection happened from 11:15 am to ... excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  alarms pre-set on my phone. I may need to awaken for lecture at 11:20, but ... to wear jeans. Nice things are for the early birds.   The easiest thing ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  subject for free, ranging from Calculus and Computer Science to Economics ... number of different coding projects for students to get exposure to the ... topics that can be super helpful to review concepts for classes or even

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  something for one of the questions. So we decided to put his reply speed to ... [/caption]   In total, I had four finals to prepare for after the last day of ... imprisoned himself in building 4 to study for physics, I holed myself up in our

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  . After receiving the Marshall Scholarship to attend postgrad in the UK for ... for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of ... ’s what I’ll do for you, I’ll add hot water to the cup, then pour espresso

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  for Beginners," it attempts to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in ... up acrylic paints to wads of felt to, for some reason, a bag of 20+ oil ... in May. I love a good poster, but it’s cool to make graphics for more

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us ... simply typing up words whenever an idea for a story comes to mind, but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014