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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  FPOPs, chances for freshmen to dabble in a huge variety of subject and ... awesomeness, in fact, that I decided to experience it the next year as an ... tenure. To any future freshmen who are debating whether or not to thrust

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  , who was one of MIT's Educational Counselors, or ECs. He had retired to ... 'm back in Boston briefly before heading to New Jersey and New York on ... action folks), I've been thinking back a bit to my college interviews. My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  corridors in order to get around campus without walking in the rain outside ... , but what they grow to be” "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest ... walia ibex (native to Ethiopia!) or a lion or something. I've been

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  third UROPs, offers were made to me unexpectedly in casual conversations ... glad that I’m not mainly washing glassware or doing grunt work in ... in lab. The most exciting thing that happened to me is when my work got

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... legs were both straight, or of the top wasn’t curved in the way it is ... in paint, approximately how i cut the π[/caption] I had to cut it in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  window (or at my phone). I hope you, too, are able to take a break in ... course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I ... for me: If you'd like to post the link yourself on your blog, or just ... years?" ("I'm supposed to know at 18?"), or "describe a hardship," ("this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  upperclassmen on your hall or in your major provide some amount of support to ... to axiomatic thinking. Except, in reality, mathematicians don’t start ... ’t as rigorous as those in math-- they are hardly logically consistent or

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  guys probably want to hear more about the man behind on the machine. Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle ... good read for the amateur type theorist or functional programming geek

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  come back and share those stories (in the comments or via email to me ... threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions ... journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  efficiency of management and to eliminate fluctuations in economic and social ... special talents, and to provide an environment in which these may flourish ... the "persistent tendency to...centralization of control in all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  've been lying around either freezing or burning up in bed or on my couch or somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling ... are hammering in morse code and are repreatedly trying to tell you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  yet to write down in your application. That's fine. Just be sure ... ; We are happy to accept fee waivers for any student (foreign or domestic ... . You will also be able to provide information about any new awards or

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  We prefer that students use our MIT application portal detailed in ... documents submitted through Naviance, SCOIR, or other methods. Regardless of ... -specific recommendation form. On the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more ... my rights. I'm in New Hampshire." "Live free or die." "Live free or die ... DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  —most students choose to brush up on their culinary skills or enroll in a lower ... the liberty to choose to be on a meal plan or instead rely on other food ... prep for the week or opt for simple, easy dishes to fit their busy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  available in your application portal in late January and should be completed as soon as possible after completion of the fall semester or after completion of the second quarter. Your school does not need to mail your
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  :       Don't refer to yourself in the 3rd person. It ... Prize in Biology and attributing all of your success to your admission to ... Ashante or her inability to maintain pitch control, not lip-sync at live

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... .[/annotation]My parents and I were in SoCal last March Break (to visit my four-year-old twin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  of MIT Undergraduate Women in Physics, and asked her to do some physics ... 5 MPH. As opposed to if the car had been traveling directly at you or ... blogging brownie to whomever in the comments can come up with the best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011