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• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications ... represent everything about who I am as a person in 250 words? I couldn’t, so I ... research , or swing from a giant rope in the trees, I held it with such high

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  universities in metropolitan Boston that were listed on Wikipedia ... submit, if it's in NCBI's Taxonomy Database then the site will build a ... an image file, which I did and then polished up in an image

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  .[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019 ... ="I mean, later that day I got an email from MIT with my deadname in it also ... to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... Harvard and have this distinct memory of sitting in seminar, watching a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  experience in the "soft skills" department, but this post isn't about that. It ... existed in the first place. And now that I think about all the things I don ... 're having a conversation. What happens is that: I have this big picture in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... more unsure about majoring in 6-9. Wasn't really sure why I was feeling that way, since the obvious option is to major in something I liked to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To ... windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... one of over 10,000.   II) March 14th, 2021 In the months after

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  dumb"]enroll[/annotation]in[annotation note="Intro to Computational ... 's technicalities. Okay, can I perform in the class? Honestly, I'm grossly unprepared ... . Do I really want to major in 6-9 or 11-6, or am I actually just

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... class in the morning. Part of me still feels like I’m seventeen and back ... graduation will be in two months; that I’d get to have one gloriously carefree

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  were in Italian: margherita, bianc, prosciutto. The Indian food was ... him before, and his name pops up in my lab’s Slack channels and the ... image “translation” model. In this demo, it takes a line drawing as input

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  match everything in your record much more quickly You should configure ... , and instead to store it safely in your inbox. How you do this will depend on your email provider; in GMail, for example, you can write a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  of work in a regular semester. I am...so sick and tired of being ... overwhelmed and it's difficult having to look 2025s in the face and say 'Yeah, I ... 'm still participating in CPW and why I still honestly and genuinely tell

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  ) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... manage your time, certainly, that crucial skill you can show off in a job ... 't walk quietly through a room in the early morning, think about how

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... Commonwealth Ave"]Cafe 472[/annotation] calzones and ate them all in one sitting ...  formals: Bombergiving, a Thanksgiving formal my floor throws, Mocha Formal, in which Mocha

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  that we'll do lots of case studies this semester too. Even in the first ... statistics, because I'm very interested in satellites, satellite networks, and ... (literally) in October 2020. I am super excited for this, but the first lecture

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  was not made for walking >:( i'm used to walking almost everywhere in boston, but in the past few day i've missed an uber because i couldn't find ... are no trees and the sky is so big. i've lived in new england for the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  clueless is normal. We are beginners in everything we do, from reading, to ... subject area that they excelled in during high school was the subject they intended to major in here at MIT. [annotation note="Of course, it makes sense

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  participate in at least one UROP during their undergraduate years!” Coming into MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... UROP in a field [annotation note="Many people use UROP as a way to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to Transgender Anti-Discrimination”. In essence, the bill says that you can’t be discriminated against in public areas based on gender identity. One of the most

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018