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• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... the lives of others. MIT students work to improve their communities in ... piece of writing we've ever seen. Over my ten years of working in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  instructor said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that "all of electronics can be ... And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  can to travel alone internationally for the first time. Of course I ... of certain memories. So far, I’ve lived half of my life in China and ... . Hoping for favorable Internet conditions in China so I can blog there

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  another blow to my confidence. I went and hid in a corner of the university ... the music I listened and sang along to in 2018 as a kind of catharsis ... empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... state college the next. And I got lots of work here now, but at least I ... ’s cool. I started worrying sophomore year of high school, and definitely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  deprivation. I was bored out of my mind." Still, in other ways, Ms. Chinea ... when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.," she wrote. "I nearly ... the closest you can get to living in the Internet," and Ms. Chinea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  reminded me of why I needed that environment in the first place. The next ... break to watch Howl's Moving Castle in between bits of coding because I ... This past semester, I haven't been taking much care of myself. Lately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  sense of how engineering practices differ around the world. (I'd like to ... Laura Stonehill, an MIT senior majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent her summer in Venice, Italy through an informal internship

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... of myself for doing so well in 8.021 this far, especially seeing as I ... high school, I was pretty anal about getting A's. In my freshman year of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  deduced that the problem lies in the wireless internet, so now I just can ... Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  my mentor, Ryan Reich. I can't claim that this paper was in any way ... aspects of) the world. What's not to love? As for how I got interested in ... is not what you'll learn in your classes (much of which you can find on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  people’s opinions. In making this map of opinions I could pinpoint the ... that’s what you’re thinking so I can continue with this train of thought ... A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  -down letter omega. Yesterday I had one of those quintessential MIT moments. I ... end of May (im wunderschoenen Monat Mai?), but I won't because I'll already be in Germany. The German Requiem is a really amazing piece of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  I can write some sort of blazingly exotic blog entry full of ... class here. But it's kind of nice to know that I can until almost three ... finished in January. I have a lot of neurons to image on the confocal

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  instance. At the beginning of the semester, I dutifully sat at my desk in my ... chunks of problem sets in one sitting. I'm not saying that this is the way ... April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post-decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  , I would've burned rubber. We peeled out of there like the city ... the essay-editing process, I asked some pairs of fresh eyes (in the form ... -cat. ...moving on. Anna: I would like to mention that all of the "rest of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  cool patterns is to make visualizations. I can do this with a variety of ... of data points, lines, and bars to better demonstrate trends. I can ... my first ever blog post showing the number of steps i took, in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  after I first stepped foot in Boston. My things, my signifiers of home ... !"]when I was 14.[/annotation] I can stretch my arms wide in the bed and roll ... For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  . "I'm afraid of failure," I say. Well, yes, they reply, we know. "I can ... projects that exist as words and not in full because I am afraid of starting ... itself in a couple of falls. My immediate reaction was no. No I do not want

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020