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• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  clearly labeled. While there is a specific rationale for every question that ... , please send a note or email directly to me.  While that may result in me ... individuals.  In that regard, they aren't wrong.  There is probably no college

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany ... then she said: "our deepest fear is not that we are helpless. our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." especially at mit

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  belief in me.   X. I flew back to Boston that evening, took a nice ... abysmal. I didn't have a car, public transportation wasn't an option in the ... jump. Quads (that I don't have) would be restricted and a new range of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  mentioned what I actually failed at doing. The reason for that is that it ... my whole identity around my confidence. So, in a way, the world I had ... like a puzzle in hopes of solving this sorrow. But, no matter how hard I

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  small number of high schools that I do each year, I'll often feel a little ... our office might visit 50 or so of them in a year. I know from talking to students and fellow admissions officers that this is a relatively

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  sacrifice, right? I'm working on designing something that makes Interlocking Stabilized Soil Bricks. Basically, it's a machine that applies some ... should have a shape that lets them interlock, so that they don't need

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  part is a lie. I do not actually have Alan Guth's home address. However ... interest in astrophysics, which is probably a large part of the reason I was ... , and really helpful! GUTH IS THE MAN! That was a huge relief to hear. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  's license is really all that tells us apart nowadays. Consider this a trial ... , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  holding the PVC pipe like a gun/cannon is THAT creative, but I thought it ... memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about 6 – 7 hours a night. I know there are those people here that don

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  's Mom and sorting through the shambolic mess that is my room right now. I had hoped that taking the 6 boxes I stored in the Burton-Conner trunk ... that I'm a senior and I can take pretty much whatever I want. The first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA in your head. this is fear. a close cousin to anxiety, but not

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  this is the first that doesn’t seem like work. That’s not to say that I ... Journalism: Still Images of a World in Motion. Although admittedly it is a writing class (which I would generally avoid with a 10 foot stick), it is

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  applications! Being a senior, whether in high school or college, is just really ... heal us. As a step in that direction, we want to share a list of things ... . And here is a list of timestamps that *actually* heal our souls: Pearl

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... pace, is that I am constantly being asked what I'm going to do when I ... hermit in a cave in Hong Kong after graduation. I proclaimed that I would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero ... payoff being that you get free summer housing plus a stipend in exchange ... for three hours. While doing that, I got paid $27.75. Mitra can explain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  , remind me that i'm still inside it. in the end, i'm still forced to do ... . it opens my body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one i ... , that the internet went out for a while. it was around 7:45 pm, and i went

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  Eric Lander’s last lecture in 7.012 (that man is fantastic- TAKE THAT ... . In the interest of full disclosure, I have had a mild crush on him ... around Thursday night (“I HAVE 3 PSETS DUE TOMORROW THAT I HAVEN’T STARTED

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  in the Green Building. I insisted to my boyfriend that I wanted to do ... full time job offer nor a spot in the graduate program. I do something ... me enjoying my life is quite high. I see accepting a position in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  robots that actually did quite well in the competition! It's been a lot of ... first day of lab and I'm a bit nervous. 2.007 is well known for its chaos ... manageable pieces.  Our first assignment is to build a "Mini Me" robot that can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  and put down this stroke for all that you will do! But I have noticed in ... distance. In that case, the path to infinity is simply now. What do you see ... seductive structures of society. So it seems that many a man, living a life in

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025