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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... academic workflow to pieces. It's a tough blow to absorb to not be able to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... mind, and suspending disbelief to experience a cinema masterpiece has

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... -actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was ... towards some inevitable death. Game over. I handed my poker chips to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a ... first got to the office, our information sessions even showcased a picture ... a large-scale construction project to throw [annotation note

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... be living in such a beautiful place, and I tried to appreciate it while ... opportunity to be a researcher there and surpass my own wildest dreams. Blue

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... dozen people spring to mind, and I laugh and tell her, “A lot.” We share a ... Kornbluth trained as a cancer biologist, which has led her to be passionate

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this ... a distinction between submitting an application and trying to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B. Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear ... 're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... , MITES, ...) There's a whole thread dedicated to sharing research

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... while at MIT If and when you are accepted to MIT there may be a day when ... mile! (while hard to see, there's a banner that says "Go Sox" suspended

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  of them changed my life in a good way and I’m excited to see the ... the first time, which meant a lot of new logistics to sort out. I got to ... another job. That’s when a friend pointed me to a job at Akamai

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

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... assigned advisor at the OME, and a week-long retreat to reconnect with the ... anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week ... your resume. As a student here, you will have access to a variety of ... . Try to remember how lucky you are every day. 7. At least a few times

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all ... . Regardless of whether or not you go to MIT, you have a long, uphill battle ... lead to a lot more than an admissions decision. If you get in on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  ...3...4", I realized that I wasn't really composed enough to hold a conversation ... 's go for a walk. It's nice out. Davie: Okay. Feel free to either talk ... handed me a complete horse chestnut, and showed me how to open it. As I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a ... a big fish in a small pond. I'd been to national-level events; I knew ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... . The only class to which I dragged myself on a semi-regular basis was my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  to behave in a way that scaffolds children's creative behavior. My ... make a sandbox style game where children could place various objects to ... my grad student to include in her thesis (oops), so after a while, she

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020