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• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... . There are so many ways to find your people in college, and I want to talk ... took me 700 words to get to the point…). You have a group of people who

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz ... and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... respond, I procrastinate on making a new resume by getting back to psetting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I ... ago. I tried to reproduce the first picture in the post I linked. But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  finally understood I had to get out of my neighborhood I got into one little ... in this forum? Absolutely not! I welcome all students to the table to ... story all about how My life got flipped turned upside down And I’d like to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  stamped envelope to send their recommendation in, provide them with one ... mail day of the early action season, so I encourage you to get your ... applications. It's never good to put all your eggs in one (or even two or three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that ... lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of ... admissions blogs is to humanize MIT. I hope that this video, in turn, humanizes

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  classes to have a cup of coffee, get going on my to do list, take a nap, or ... for not blogging in an eternity...) Back to Cena a las Seis, though ... didn't get to eat everything you wanted, you still got a show! Here is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  to Miami, Florida when we were 10. We started 5th grade in Miami at a ... this, we were very enthusiastic to speak up in class when we knew an answer. Our fourth grade math curriculum in New York happened to almost

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  pattern, one I still haven’t figured out a response to. In machine shops, I ... thought to myself, “That won't be me.”  I am known, on occasion, to sit in ... biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  automatic algorithm would have to handle. In their paper about Reverse ... ? First things first: We need a dataset  In order to develop and evaluate ... bunch of line graphs in the wild, leading to an authentic collection of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  more abstract purpose relates to getting us in the appropriate mental ... available to be hung in MIT students’ living spaces or offices. Students view ... sports? The answer is MIT students. In fact, I have yet to see an empty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  and forth in the woodshop. Arabic music is playing. I have come to an ... shelves are bare and books lie in stacks on the table. I keep to the outside ... the eggs. One rolls to and from me in a breeze I don’t feel, like a boat

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  plot. Stagecraft has to do with everything in a play excepting the actors ... things give the audience an easy way to tell when changes in time, location ... there are a fair number of ways to get that experience. Twice a year, MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  we went to a Lebanese restaurant in downtown/Penn Court. We took the ... was the night before inauguration. In the three block walk to the restaurant, we had to walk through barricades in streets, have police officers

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  bright student had to drop out her junior year in college because of dad ... this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group(s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... student groups try to fit in one last activity before IAP comes to an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  time to properly support me, getting woken up at 5am every morning by my ... roommate, my summer was rough. It took everything in me to not toss my work laptop in one of the many dumpsters ubiquitous to the streets of Manhattan

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process ... devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007