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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  examining bacteria from a mile away - in the radio part of the spectrum, of ... I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I ... Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... somewhat self-evident. When I said college was a "socializing institution", I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  more, worse. I suffer from a (chronic) condition known as “need ... : "How was your first year at MIT?" After a billion failed attempts (most ... smile, then say: "I learned a lot." I remember how I felt when I first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  ; Day 2: Pocket In transitioning from a Web to a Pocket, the critter has ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  free food from every dorm and living group I could traverse, a nontrivial ... have become a comfortable home away from home. I’ve created meaningful ... breathing had switched from being a background process to a task of concerted

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  arrangement from administration. One of the many things they’ve set up is a ... was really a week feels like one incredibly never-ending day. Falling ... living through a pandemic. And we were being forced off campus. With

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  . They can have lifetime health problems afterward a from carrying the ... in their backyards with a shovel, the risk of asphyxiation from the ... from Google satellite data, where those curves in the photo represent a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  did need more people, so I said, “Sure.” And from then on I was a ... away from you at all times is a rare and valuable thing. MIT’s “make it ... 2.009 presentations were December 11th. Theme: WILD! 2.009 is a Mech

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  problems on their own. I learn about a beautiful culture that’s isolated from ... When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of Nowhere, New Mexico - out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  into a blog. Thoughts like: I staff 6.031 office hours from 7 to 8 pm on ... buildings and an hour turns me from a genius into a fool: when I show up at 6 ... , a few friends, the classmates I barely knew from a tiny square on Zoom

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  Chicago, and visited family in Baltimore. I did a lot of hiking, from Joshua ... ferry from Rome to Barcelona. Tomorrow we will start a ride from Barcelona ... also ~3,300 miles from home, and ~2,800 miles from a fellow ‘13 grad who

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  mostly from one portion of one class taken over a year ago, and the ... units certainly seems very far from what might be considered a mean; I ... 're going to take a slight diversion, therefore, from Aristotle, and ask again

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  our dramatic lives and a break from your own. (You are reading ...  ‘16: Your professor makes a joke about “that place downriver from ... being collected. You keep getting cryptic emails from a mailing list

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  . Typhoons in the Philippines have a local name, different from its ... languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a shower, a drizzle. Ambon is the kind of rain that a light jacket would be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  built my home; what I need is a snapshot of yours. As I find my way from ... , setting the flat panel of the track, and a fifth, with dyed red hair ... -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  ... ^^;) A group photo from ASA Senior night Despite how involved I was in so ... 'll actually be only a few blocks away from campus, and working at a small ... ", and now at 22, starting my career only a few blocks from MIT but still

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  simple path from A to B, from course 5 to course 9, but I don't think I can ... About a month ago, a parent asked me: "What do all these majors switching/undeciding mean (My child is just as undecided.): a) There is no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest ... gentleman, one of Nature's own, and, though coming as he did from a far off

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  words maximum) Alessandra Every summer I receive a visit from a person I ... come from a family of dancers, so I suppose it’s a bit of a hereditary ... of college and I just bought two cheeseburgers from a local gas station

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  was a bit different from this year's. There were two short answer ... to add something useful or intriguing to the team, from a wonderful ... From the moment I became an MIT Admissions Blogger, I knew I'd write

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009