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• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... begin to come in. 3:00pm. We start up the meeting, and everything goes ... , 2008 The next couple days, I visit a few high schools in the area, and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  schools; and in the process I've completely forgotten what was supposed to ... 've got all this writing momentum, I pulled up this particular work in progress. We expect that this will turn into a senior thesis (in physics) for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as ... . There are over 1,000 high school teams nationwide that compete in FIRST. In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  rural desert roots in search of the rest of my life. I'm eighteen years ... thoroughly embarrass me involves walking in while I'm talking to myself about ... in Toronto, where they tired of the cold winters and set out for the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while ... probably the neatest notes i have in any class this semester. i grab lunch with chris from the chinese food truck by area four and we eat in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never written these before. I’ve been thinking about the things I’ve done in the ... to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Events

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

  

  . Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go ... . There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in ... sleeping in high school because I was always seeing the tetris pieces in my

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

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... conclusion that, in fact, South Station is just bad; Union Station is beautiful ... together at the only store open in the whole place. I had some miraculous

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... psychotic or clinical depression (at least in the ‘90s, when “anhedonia” was probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  Lama came together in the form of three Unread Message alerts in my inbox ... event tickets. At 10:00am and 11:28am respectively, an e-mail came in from ... posts in one month and ten days. I noticed that I had put almost all of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  to answer the many questions that have been showing up in my blog ... department here in India. so they arrange make up test in october 28th but i could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  wanted to work on it in the future. I'm writing this post because I ... qualified I am to write this, but I thought I'd just give my two cents in for ... time in college, it was pretty evident my interests couldn't be really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... , there are too many great options; with over 300 classes in [annotation ... . Many of them probably wouldn’t work in real life. But nevertheless, it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ago. i created a new world, i booted up survival, walked around in some ... , playing minecraft in utter secret while my mom wasn't looking. i walked and ... , and then fill in the middle with straight lines and planes: this is

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  you who are now in college and used Google Docs to write your essays, I ... wondering how I could express something meaningful in so few words. But in the ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their introductory courses. Robert lives in Maseeh Hall, was born in Goma and grew up in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I hope you enjoy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  and a number of faculty, staff, and alumni in work to promote personal wellbeing and academic success in your community. As you know, we received ... unsafe behaviors and activities occurred in the house during the turnaround

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  does a 5k, 10k, and half marathon in November while Disney World does a 5k, 10k, half marathon, and full marathon in January.  The Goofy ... medals if I do this one!" I registered in April and began my training. I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Preface from Jebby: In addition to participating in Next Haunt with ... , so I’ll go in with a general overview of this year's timeline! [March ... before and were interested in continuing. Additionally, I was able to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  …ufacture mischief? In which I mansplain how my friends manipulate each other ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... . There are so many ways to find your people in college, and I want to talk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024