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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... ready to work in the Real World. The career fair was a great reminder that ... people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and ... refreshing to make memories that are anchored in places beyond my bedroom. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do. There were no class schedules or club meetings to provide some substance ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school ... in this one are great, and remind me of Somebody That I Used to Know ... thousand paper cuts. This isn't mentioned or linked in the body of the post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  an A or B in a grad level class for it to count towards an MEng degree ... else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... able to get above a C in this class. Normally I'd just tell myself that C

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  summers to catch up on the hobbies that I don't actually partake in at all ... 's main story well Music: Basically, whether or not I listen to the music ... it didn't live up in all ways to my very high expectations. But like I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  Building to my UROP in building 18 (oh look, it's that map again- the Green Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell ... lab to walk home. Either I'm not very observant, or someone acted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  big stacks of folders to evaluate, still with summary cards (or "E-3 ... Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... rather canary yellow! Okay, so this might not be so exciting to you, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  him explaining the profundity of anaphase in mitosis. I listened to ... note: if you’re ever in an exam and you don’t know the answer to a ... frantically tried to explain it to us in the remaining minutes of class (good

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social ... cost and cycle time.  If the costs in a field have come down recently, or ... in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in ... every passing day here at MIT — how to not beat myself up over turning in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the ... anticipated "Jesus: The Ride" to much fanfare: If you're interested in ... ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  '12 tries to become one with the igloo Steve '12 tries in his own way ... Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday ... of 8 feet, we found that almost 13 cubic meters of snow were used in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  sentence is to be interpreted literally in the context of “there's so many ... post in one blog!**** ****Experiment truncated in order to minimize the ... Physics Students) in your major are a fantastic way of getting to know

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  Black leadership. in that spirit, she asks us to consider -- what might ... legal in Florida to kill a Black child. For the silenced, the internet is ... isolated in their experiences to find connection and collective purpose. In

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  few steps along the way," said Mr. Sahin, who plans to major in ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in ... preparatory curriculum available to them in the Plano Independent School

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  teaches design and manufacturing, so the first month or so is dedicated to ... , which guaranteed that I would play someone who was unable to score in ... ready to kick butt: I was able to score 3 engineering balls in the A bin

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not ... Mariane Pearl to health tips, in addition to the expected celebrity news and ... their $40,000 fellowships to support women in science. With that in mind

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  application to computer science. Unlike Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess, poker is a game of ... - to determine what the best move is in any given scenario, since the ... get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  those that were admitted - we hope to see you in the fall. For those whom ... waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll, but we do plan to admit 26 students from the waitlist. Today, around 3pm

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011