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• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med ... 's been a great four years in Beantown - but sorry, we're (hopefully) headed ... : 1) open a food truck in SF/NYC, 2) work in standardized testing field

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  was determined to prove that I actually did have a good essay in there ... and activities, the applicant pool is so large that a difference in 10 ... .) We only went in the wrong direction for about a block and a half, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  Four years ago, in October 2012, Lydia published a blog post titled ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... out. Not with their laptops in front of them, not doing a little work in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  -year tidal wave: REX! REX: Residence Exploration In one sentence, REX is a 4 ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters ... .  That day is unfortunately a long way off, but so far I’ve had at least

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  and made a notes document of everything I wanted to accomplish in high ... a quote that sat right above his whiteboard, visible at every place in ... a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor ... story is not unique. Many of my friends at MIT are also on a similar ... you are? Is it a balance?  How do I apply to grad school? How do I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at ... these things in a ceramic, mushroom-shaped container (which we ... ! And our really awesome friend was in it, performing with a sword that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  means that it ended some time in the 90s. But this is not a post about ... ="aligncenter" width="833"] the font is apex new, which is the closest to a font used in ... new MIT logo is a squarish configuration of the letters "MIT" in an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  empowering it is to dance with fire in front of a supportive crowd. I love ... bottle. Story behind this is that I dropped my H2GO 20.9oz asi51197 from a ... stickers on this one that I refuse to throw out. Apparently H2GO is a brand

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... of it, a pusher motor that pushes the next dart in and the flywheel ... known as step motor or stepping motor, is a brushless DC electric motor

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  decision in life comes a tradeoff: you get to go to MIT in exchange for, well ... startups in order to be a course 6. I like my soul for maybe the first time ... Note: So, you may or may not have noticed that my name is ~different

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  's debate at MIT is worth a blog post in itself. Or six. The best thing to do ... self-control. View Dining around MIT in a larger map Let's start with ... -flavors-of-Triscuits supermarket. The fruit is an order of magnitude cheaper than at LaVerde's in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  architect be placed in a particular climate change context? Is there a way to ... probably write a post about it, but this is not that post. Instead, this is ... : the micro-internship and the class. But even then, “having time” is a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  Venus is a fairly predictable thing.” He paused, switching the settings on ... of the world was overcast, but somewhere in the Pacific Ocean a cruise ... cardboard eclipse glasses. “Is that it?” “No, honey, that’s a bug. It should

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... is a collection of 80 images taken from all around MIT’s campus around

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  decided to let her "write" this entry in some sense -- I asked her a few ... , so I grew up in their studio and developed a passion for designing ... sister moved up to Boston with me and I did a project in microfluidics

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  idea is to prove I am a qualified student for MIT, but i'm not sure i'd I ... because this is a real problem for me, getting them in the first place was ... purevolume site in my essays. Is this a smart move? Will the admissions staff

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to ... A-Level. I find this baffling. Also, as my final grades come out in ... . ------------------------------------- Shuja wrote: "Is it ok if my MV Cal and Physics C grade reports are in by

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  major in 6-2 (electrical engineering and computer science), a major in 4-B (art and design), and a minor in CMS (comparative media studies). Some other statistics: The smallest number of units I took in a semester was

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  16x16 sized boards. In fact, in my engine, every board is a subset of a ... ."]bitboard.[/annotation] A bitboard is just a mapping from bits in the number to places on the board. We can do this in a number of ways, but in protochess this is done

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020