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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  the end of summer; one day, I was sitting in the office casually ... gradient across the parsec scales of our globular cluster, then it was one ... after cup of tea, then suddenly it was the day of my presentation and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  mess in the beginning of the school year and, in hindsight, I should have gone to CAPD in the beginning of the year. At this point in time, I wasn ... students are even given the day off of classes to go. I had prepared the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  of us speculated back and forth -- would we know the person already ... thought taking a picture of the snack table would make me look like a rube ... passed -- and then the door opened again and a group of people walked in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl ... -go young professional from the Northeast. However, in any kind of a tight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  parts of my identity, like Tagalog. In the post, I also mention OPM, an ... enough justice to Tagalog. Especially since I [annotation note='One of the graduation requirements in MIT is the HASS Concentration, a group of related

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... still, from the standpoint of an individual class, the material is ... train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this factors in the mysterious element of wind chill.  I was graciously accepted

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy ... looked like a witch! Me: ..... The fourth time was a couple of weeks ago

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we ... the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my ... is once you actually meet them … or talk to them outside of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Freshman Application: Live on Monday The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on MyMIT.

  

  MIT account. The account provides a number of benefits, including: Access to the ... decision of accepted students We'll be talking more about the application in ... The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... -reject candidates because of word length, but we believe the word limit specified

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future ... that for another time.) One of the reasons I was drawn to MIT was for its

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  share with you a sliver of some of the amazing people I’ve met and the ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of ... and the bloggers of this site. It gives me chills just to be there in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell ... - this was following approximately 3 hours of sleep the night before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes ... more. Mind you, the HASS-D lottery only involves a small portion of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... something else. It is the most formidable piece of literature I have ever

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!

  

  best to get to know them! Remember that your host is fully aware of the ... enjoying some of the best (and most elaborate?) dinner on campus at my ... you meet the infamous cats of Tetazoo!   Erick P. '17 will be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on ... cite the FIRST robotics competition as one of many excellent and ... participated in FIRST, last year I had the good fortune of experiencing FIRST

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  reasons that this particular mistake happened, including the eclipse of ... , staring at the soft eggshell paint of my ceiling and pondering my exam ... small changes in my choice of classes, rearranging the order in which I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004