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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  . A straw, for example, may stab the roof of your mouth as you move your ... . About 20% of people have obtained an injury due to a sneeze. The angle of ... any sneeze-related injury. I personally have a scar on the top right of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  hosted the infamous Ollie Smoot '62 (for a lecture about Smoot's Ear ... 's giving was even featured on the MIT homepage for today, which is how you ... known throughout the world as a surefire method to summon missing speakers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  your questions for the last 9 months as MITAdmin, but I am grateful to ... -lovers). Since I've become a member of the MIT community, I've found the ... couldn't because of my class schedule. MIT has a reserved block of time for

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  through a third-party service other than the MIT application portal ... Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... capabilities, so I felt the need to subscribe to a stereotype. But here at MIT ... but a common one, so the pressure to uphold some stereotype was lifted

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  true for all of you: "MIT is a hard place, made all the harder for the ... organization. As an MIT undergraduate, Smith was a member of the student team that built a solar car and drove it across the Australian outback in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  a dedicated group of sympathizers spent summer days photographing the ... almost feel like a museum exhibit if I didn't recognize some of the faces ... exhibit was supplemented by a virtual tour of the dorm. x This was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  . The next time I took a Chinese class would be at MIT - and I ended up ... and Kristina display so much enthusiasm for a foreign language, I feel ... fell in love with Chinese at MIT. And for a soundtrack - press play on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  allowed by the FCC, Turner and the lawyers for both stations found a legal ... WTBS [now TBS] for his station, and contacted the MIT radio station with ... would then apply for WTBS, and would donate an additional $25,000 if the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... students for a chance at a summer internship. Momentum was a truly amazing ... ’s was, the first thing she did was pick a day that we could go to one

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... reflected as true with a significant number of people. The sense that MIT was a microcosm of the world was enormous, and even in this diverse

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  for me, much like the day I bought my Mac, after being vehemently ... that aren't worthy of a full blog post (like, for instance, announcing ... Hello Interwebs, it's me Chris. As you can probably guess from the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  ), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous ... The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI ... subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Inside the Webcast Studio sneak preview...

  

  Sorry for the abrupt ending - had to start the show!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense ... . AWESOME. Let me back up a bit. See, back before dubsmash and the Doge meme ... , how did we even), I took a class from The Most Excellent Professor

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  you to seek out the answers for yourself, sending you off on a journey ... 's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a ... can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my ... procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on travel and trying to free ourselves from the predicament.

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score, but on the whole, people did pretty well. Below are the results, with ... all tied for the most correct, with 6. The mode was, I believe, 5, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  hours in between. It makes for a nice lunch/blog update time.) Today is ... bottle of water and a box of seafoam fudge. Mmmm, the tastes of home. (I love New Jersey, for those of you just tuning in.) After....a lot of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  Creasy at the Johns Hopkins University (a fantastic school, btw) for the ... application numbers for the past five years, starting with last year and working ... A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007