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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  was just using it to color. I did run into a few issues owing to its ... send it to me and I’d open it in OpenToonz. On each frame, I used colored ... offered to try to do it in Blender! I knew that Blender had a free Cell

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  some questions. So they threw in a generic thank you to the people at ... indentify with her more and to find it hard to fault her that without being a ... then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis ... it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of ... incorporated technology or to present a technology in a magical way (or both ... force a particular card to stick in our minds while rifling through a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one ... hard to present MIT in 20 minutes, especially when you're used to having ... Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  ’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask.In ... door-to-door didn’t make much sense when “the next door” was half a mile

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  ), happens to be pals with Mark Bathe, who is a professor in course 20, who ... other organizational device that is acceptable to use in the 21st century). ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  , 1931, and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The committee's first decision was whether to use ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a ... on average), thanks to in person 9am classes/meetings. I eat a decent ... Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  shouldn’t be able to get into a top school too. So in 10th grade, MIT ... American community on campus. I was surprised to find a sizable and vibrant ... home cooked meals while you're living in a dorm! When I went to college

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  culture here on campus. All in all, I just wanted to end with a message to ... As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... a strange idea. No one ever wants to be average. Society says that we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  my life before coming to college and pursuing my interests in a ... ’t Hurry Love by Phil Collins - I remember listening to this song a lot in ... EDIT: Petey mentioned in the comments that we should make a blogger

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  departments, nigh impossible) to get a research position in your first year ... UROP is to find labs whose work you're interested in, and then directly ... , or 20, or maybe 10.  And the best way to know if you're interested in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... to a lack of new Oreo flavors in my life. I did try two, though ... 'd struggled to find for several years. These are exciting because they have a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  sophomores useful skills and to let the upperclassmen get practice leading a ... make use of the ones we had been taught in order to complete our missions ... helpful to be able to practice handling stressful situations in a controlled

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  they've done a lot of work with the project and hope to have the prototype ready in September for people to ride across the city. Eventually ... project organizers really brought in the community to take part in building

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... 'll be leaving in a few weeks, along with most of the other students on campus, I'm glad I got a chance to enjoy the snow this season.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front ... exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006