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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  back and answer the questions that I can (please limit your questions to ... the holidays, I'll try to field some questions here. Please remember ... mail your materials on or before January 1. However, I strongly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  excitement in Boston now is like nothing I've felt before anywhere else. Yet ... : Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I have to admit, the Pittsburgh ... Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... empower communities via tech education and highlight bias in algorithms. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  look who i found in vienna hi joon

  

  [annotation note = "joon looks much more aesthetic than i did in my picture jesus"][/annotation][annotation note = "in case you were wondering this is true outside of pictures as well"][/annotation]

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  now, many of you have probably heard of (or use) this, but I'm in love ... thought I'd share my station with y'all if you're interested. You can also ... (formerly my #1 favorite show) has now dropped in my ranks - I really think

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for ... telethon last year, his face fell and he plaintively said, "Anyone can go? I ... as this one. Ever. Sorry. Can I do research freshman year? Like, real

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put ... , in the sense that you can build a support network and enjoy things that ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  awake. The rest of this post will be about things I did yesterday in ... CourseWare version of the same lecture that I witnessed on Friday: In ... Christmas gift wrap. I mean, economical gift wrap. (Bonus challenge: In the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  . Round two came around 11pm in the form of steak tips. I can’t tell you ... sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as ... unauthorized boats in the lake. "TOGETHER WE CAN WIN THE WAR AGAINST AQUATIC

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  MIT experience in a new framework. I appreciate that. I'll never take ... just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a ... say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three ... can agree to because we're all human. In a world divided along many ... share in the experience. But now that I think about it, it seems hard to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  admitted, in all likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice ... waitlist. What should I do now? If you are still interested in MIT, you ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... Maryland in our hard-earned car to go grocery shopping. I wasn't exactly ... Sliced Roast Beef [mmmm roast beef] Applegate Sliced Turkey [in case I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do ... dawns on me that I left my coffee in my dorm room. Ten minutes to my 9

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area ... ordinarily store their things) when I moved back into MacG in the fall and it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  -as-a-bootcamp that set in during a hellish week. So I decided to leave something ... After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  backstory is that in EC, the singles are big and the doubles are small. (I ... had seen so many other people do. I don't know if this is common in other dorms, but I suspect it's so popular in EC because of room size, the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists ... bulletin board, of a garbage can, of a ceiling, of a vent, and of a door. I ... because 30 people are taking a picture of a paper tree in lobby 10 then I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  England and the first term is half way over! I really can't believe it. The ... -togethers. I see the other two MIT students in Course 1 (civil engineering ... , the weeks are dragging on. But it's okay because I'm here with 24 other

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  tech in general, was for me. But as this program concludes, I can say ... you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two ... have accomplished so much and grown in ways that I cannot even describe

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020