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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... early on to use my iPhone and iPad to control my robots via OSC, a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  , which was nice. A few were in the area at the time; one arranged to meet ... to zero interest in pulsars. Sometimes, people came to find me, because ... graduate school and get my Ph.D. in astronomy. I sent a very happy e-mail to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  thing—what classes I’m going to take next! This is not because of a deep internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be ... love the first two weeks of class when I get to experience a new schedule

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... you want to). in this way, the gcal becomes a more accurate life log of what i did at a particular point in time and when, as opposed to a list

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  to a thousand more questions than the ones I came in looking for ... to use computational tools to make positive social impacts. If you ... very... abstract. After bouncing around for a while, I'm now a double in

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your ... character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We deferred 6

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use ... useless in the context of Apple Bake, so I decided to try my hand at a few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  in French libraries, trying to get used to the French keyboard... it ... whole reason I was in Paris was to work at Institut Curie, a biomedical ... students all over the world to participate in internships, and they try and

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  where you need to be.” Yes, you should be yourself, but not in a ... anecdotes. Find a reliable proofreader. Revise, revise, revise. Try not to ... that I grew up in a community where I was able to even cultivate so many

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  eventually go to a more entertaining game in the future.  The food, on the ... shops, but 15 dollars would have been a drop in the bucket compared to the ... to anyone. Go listen to Expert In A Dying Field Deluxe Edition

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  /or something else. I’m considering a minor in German, but we'll have to see if I ... science, to be specific. I’ve done a lot of research in atmospheric science ... an architecture discovery class. In general, I want to use college to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a ... things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are ... time to buy groceries so you haven't had a meal in a week and you've been

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  in order to build a strong application to MIT, and most students are ... ? Yes! Instructions on how to request a fee waiver are detailed in the Submit section at the end of each portfolio in SlideRoom. To request a fee

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• 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 ... Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), and it gets a dedicated post this ... in this one are great, and remind me of Somebody That I Used to Know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  undergraduate/graduate class which uses programming to design stuff. We learned Rhinoscript, which you can use to program pretty much anything in Rhino 3D, but ... of making weird shapes in Rhino, I decided to use Processing to turn

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  in these settings and the last is a public oral given to the class and ... introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where ... Dixie, and Jeopardy to name just a few). We have laughed at the antics in ... four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  beautiful mankind can be. Because these are people that have had to live in a ... During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  alums, and which I hadn't been to before. When we walked in, a guy I had ... remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  solve over a hundred puzzles and put the answers together to find a coin ... interviewer) in action to get the most out of this one, but having a interview ... " today. And, in a landscape strewn with shoddy writing, his articles are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012