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• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  understandable; I remember doing a bit of that myself on college apps. I vividly ... adept at sniffing out the applications that lack substance. In short, I ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  special things that I would never get to do in America (you've already heard ... have some informal pictures that I will post very soon.** Everything is ... ). In reality, only one college (King's) manages to do it every day, but

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  available. I also wish that in general, they had come out a bit more ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... (growth mindset!) and I needed to figure out a way to represent this that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  'm motivated to do at the moment. But half the time I give up and take a nap in ... Tuesday evening with a breakdown in Walker Memorial, and when I got back, I ... Tuesday night was fading, and though I knew logically in my head, that I had

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead ... immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... at a non-right angle to all the rest, that 66 is the 30-60-90 triangle

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  navigate whether that community is the right one for you. A great line I ... your place on-campus. Is there an activity you do in high school that you ... . That being said, I believe a lot of this advice works in other ways as

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics ... . That shift in mentality is honestly what has kept me sane in being a ... -climbing-team. [annotation note='yes i know that it is cheesy but i am a cheesy person

  • by Phi A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  't, so i guess the answer is no 082. How do you want to die? i think that ... 013. Do you get along with your parents? yes 014. Your heritage? i am a ... 't supposed to do? yes 041. Been in love? yes 042. Fired a gun? no 043. Been

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  fix a whiteboard that had been sitting in a hallway, filled with writing ... , and is, in fact, the whiteboard that's in Shuli's house. To see just ... often as needed (personally, I do it about once a semester, but the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  in general? I have a completely different point of view from those presented in the article, probably as a result of the role models that I have ... just to have you leave a few years later. I know how important it is for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence ... Developing Countries,” which is incredible. I’m currently part of a team that’s ... not a good hair d- was that just last year? THAT WAS LAST YEAR?” And I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  him. Well, I can do that too. I got a little worried that the fire ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... about them. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing--I never would have met

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  , what can I possibly do when I'm not working? The answer is all the stuff ... 1st, I'm currently competing in a high-stakes race through classics of ... shopping kart into a go-cart that was featured in Popular Science. Lots of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  I’ve read are pretty packed in that there are a lot of actions and ... regard. Even though this is a fiction book, I have no doubt that there are ... explores, and that is a frightening realization. I’m still unpacking this

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  find that something else at MIT. Lo and behold, I actually had a great ... show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you ... , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a ... tower is still standing with that huge gaping hole in it." And then ... that my boy Paul Sloan was a victim. RIP Paul, I dropped by the memorial

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  a shock. It is not too seldom that I hear "Oh my god Aiden you're so ... science. Note that this is a double major. I am not and will not abandon ... ! I do believe that a lot of people enjoy and are passionate about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  is done through a MySQL database so I'm not sure how to send that ... send in the longer essay, and if they do, I'd trust that. Or, if they ... send in an excerpt, maybe a page that is representative. Anon wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  . I’m in a small town in Russia. Why I’m here is a complicated question ... lines to be seen anywhere at all. And in that emptiness, I felt a distance ... . And I'm still upset that I didn't get to fully enjoy being in a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  this is all cope. Like, maybe I got a B in that one class because I ... too much like a sieve. I saw a Tweet that says: if ur self-narrative is ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023