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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  -digit weather in just a sweatshirt and a hat is probably not the best idea ... standing in. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. Technically, this is ... very near by who is extremely good at it and will, in the vast majority

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  in clubs and sports and whatever else you do... the essay is the one ... that is fine. But there's a big difference between those little ... I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at least I experienced it that way. You're immersed in a fragment of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  now, I recognize that this is a temporary feeling, and in a few weeks I ... post about Splash. And this'll be a post about Summer HSSP, which is a ... linking my entire previous post. This is the MIT ESP team: We're a group

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... working with, a delivery man walked into our lab with a large package in tow

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  spontaneous but fun. Throwing a good party is really exhilarating and in general ... turn into a group is nice. Now, I live in Pika. Pika is very fun, and I ... . I haven't posted in a while. Too long. It's been one of the semesters

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  you down in a big way—although that happens—but doing difficult ... imposters. The plus side is that after you break through, you usually have a ... had is unusual in that it’s an almost cartoonish example of sexism

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go ... commitments leaking over from a time when you didn’t understand what it is that ... to know there. I didn’t have a “group of friends” in college the same

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... weeks. Maybe in 15 more years, a blogger will find our Pie Day video buried in a box and have a good laugh? :)

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  transportation is excellent in Boston, but if you know someone in the area with a ... . This is a pretty good list that I actually used when I was college ... - YOU HAVE A PHONE IN HERE??"), because most people have cell phones

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... had a quiz. (Thanks Sara!) In 3.091, we have weekly quizzes that involve using cool tools given to us in weekly goodie bags, such as a spectrometer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a ... -ordinate my learning mostly from [a] Planetarium in New Delhi. Me & other guys who were in this were expected to make a small java software which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  not fit in this blog so at the bottom of this section is a link to a ... Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... the best course of action, especially if your goal in doing so is to

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

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish ... discussing Ron Padgett's poetry in Mr. Zavatsky's class. My brain was a little ... layout is that the streets are 60ft wide (about a dozen running crosstown

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  2.009 presentations were December 11th. Theme: WILD! 2.009 is a MechE capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across ... . Little does she know that soon a swarm will descend upon this campus. In ... Orientation is some ice breakers and a 90-minute safety presentation. But this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like ... your brother is only a year younger than you, but if you reference your ... that it is not in my job description to deal with. 3) Read over your

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  told you about my a cappella group yet * * * FROSH: is this east campus ... : are you in a frat ME: no ME: ME: well i'm in the toons ME: ME: we ... i know what course 6 is ME: of course you do * * * ME: in french

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  Today is my first day of school as a PhD student at MIT. Today is ... month ago at his nursing home in Missouri. There’s a lot that I could say ... is a long one and remember that life is meant to be enjoyed. Thanks for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  speak, it was a no go. That is, until I realized I worked for the ... with cones I spent some time in lab, built some yoyos (my team is ... Obama address is AWESOME! Let's see, the guy in front of me helped design

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009