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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  Intensive in the Major (CI-M) is a graduation requirement for all majors ... ’ll tell you I knit. Stitching things as my worldview unravels is perhaps ... was at 14 during that time or at 20 sitting outside the stud as when I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  the value in this. “I am a firm believer in the quote, ‘as the twig is ... . There is a very real and powerful emotional entanglement that comes with ... realization, which is easy to say but difficult to really believe: that a single

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by ... application. If you do not have a full set of scores, your application will still be reviewed in a holistic manner. Our office will be closed

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  has a good penguin department and idk maybe I’ll major in that not ... need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on ... ...What? That’s not a memorized answer. I’ve used it in every single one of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  situations! Well, you ask, I dish it. You’ll get a unique summer that only 80 ... It's ironic that I post this entry now - Matt just posted an entry about deferring for a year, and here I am giving you information on how

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  gallery of my notes note taking progression

  

  "] the top left is a draft for a legal memo i wrote for my land use law ... During high school, in many ways I had horrible study habits. Since I ... very least), I never really developed a proper system for organizing my

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  this is how I hire bloggers   Be a blogger! As usual, we ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I ... exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had ... particle" by popular press—is more generally known now in 2015. At that point

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  lights. (I was temp'ed in EC during CPW) How much is the real MIT like that ... sweatpants, 2 sweatshirts and a jacket. Under that I skeptically slipped in a ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  teammates and hoop after a long day of classes is definitely something I will ... .” What is an example of a day in your life?  Swimming student-athlete: “My ... code of ethics in financial institutions. After that, I would eat dinner

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  this, which is pretty awesome. (I feel like this may have been posted in ... accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in the passenger seat. With a laptop. For the record, that's on 93 South

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... is my birthday, and my age is now a perfect number. Perfect numbers ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  eating or doing laundry or blogging (sorry about that). But I'm back ... honest, all of you just want to hear about MIT), I do want to make a ... and zhug,  a hot sauce that is used to flavor the hummus.     Mmmm

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  nice things that I do," she said. Ramanan wasted no time in submitting a ... , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a ... articulate and clear way. She is precocious in her ability to organize a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  interested in the pursuing both comptuer science and design here at MIT (I just declared Course 6-3 on Friday! And there's also a new Minor in Design that is ... ? Take classes at MassArt. That is something that I will definitely

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  the interview, you should know that Lou Dobbs is a television ... know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy ... with the field"]. I finished Oscar Wao on vacation in Germany a few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  's only fair that I talk about how this school is decaying my mental health ... of work in a regular semester. I am...so sick and tired of being treated this way. Every week I talk to my friends and each one is doing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  classes that I have now as a junior are an hour and a half long. Actually ... in differential equations (this man is in his 70's I think). I ... Facebook. In a previous iteration of this entry, I promised a music video

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  can provide lots of great ideas. I hope that if you're interested in ... "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this question from time to time. Many students know that math students can do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also ... realized that this picture looks exactly like a problem in every introductory ... hard.” A little-known variation is, “Get your car stuck in mud, go apple

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008