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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  actually learn the fundamentals for a language. Extremely helpful as a place ... offers a free digital course to help you prepare for the ACT on their ... Programs - Click here for a chart that compares the two programs in more

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  the Tech in 1986, or in the 1986 Report, except for a single ad thanking ... were a handful of official activities, for which the turnout was low. So ... for the members while MIT looked for a permanent house. Presumably there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  waiting. I also helped review a poster design for Splash. The theme was ... this well for the first section, but for the second section we did a demo ... floor in East Campus, we played the game for a solid two hours or so. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I ... ’s common in Nigeria for novels to be officially shown to the public in a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  players and be done with it? For a football team, why not choose all the biggest players? Or the fastest? For a band why would it matter if you had ... for all the children in the world, but I will give you my take on the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Ballroom Dancing for the last two PEs - can I be a dancing pirate? =p THINGS ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... -nighter (for fun!) - for fun, or not for fun, I think I had a bit too many of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  class to be “more diverse” is a complex and contested question. For the ... students from a wide variety of backgrounds — including the [annotation note='For ... understood as socially relational: “For the person in a wheelchair, the stairs

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... a sort of home, too. For me that’s the Mock Trial Team. I have ... -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online ... – it’s like a bizarro-version of the MIT I remember. There’s plenty new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... ’s article titled "A Call for Accountability: Anti Blackness in The Menstrual ... epitome of her deceit lies in her campaign for a seat on the Cambridge City

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  . My binder. It sat on the floor, calling out for me. It had a hard white ... To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  Discord instead of the office. When the time came for us, a few weeks after ... 't really stand for anything now, so the directors come up with a backronym for what they want it to stand for. It gives a nice theme for the art

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  city that at the time I couldn’t point out on a map.  I am so guilty for ... different. I am of the opinion that there should be a latency between what we ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a ... magic. Take a look at what one member of the MIT faculty, Nick Montfort ... . But if you start with a blank mind, just the act of writing anything

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... -art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  for our family line--the Dynasty Family--that captured my hope that our ... 'm a blogger, and have gotten to know a little of the administrative side ... and senior year I became a lot more involved, also, in the MIT ASA

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  received a key that I initially assumed was for my room in the visiting ... , by no means for the first time, that he was only paying his respects to ... ! When I signed off the call I burst into tears for about 20 seconds, not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time ... -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... about, starting with the depression. (Angelina G. recently wrote a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried ... boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit ... could be exchanged for a backpack; a thousand dollars’ worth meant Air

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

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert ... milestone was a physical model of the laser cutter for technical review. We ... reach for the original dream. Allow me I guess to imagine glory, a handful

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023