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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  , in use 90% of its available time. So, it made perfect sense to make ... does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D-Lab, a group of courses that aims to teach how to perform engineering in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... ’d imagine belongs to two MIT grads and a master’s student:   Here, on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  cosmopolitan cities in the world. My five-kilometre commute to work takes a mere ... to go to Norway, depicted in one of the photos above; in the photo, I ... of my friends know, I love airports – I have half a mind to spend

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  . He's reinforced with a file folder and covered in packaging tape to ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on"]highway.[/annotation] I grew up in Nashville, TN, a driving city, but I somehow avoided

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God ... cars patrol unassumingly in the street. I talk to a girl from Tanzania ... , covered by Nahid. Next to me, five people huddled in a beige blanket dance

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to drop the right one. The feeling of failure that comes when you’re used to ... papers to realise that I actually had a life now. I had somehow found my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  fourteen students, were killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another ... to have adjusted some internal excit-o-meter. So in the days leading up ... using a strip of cloth and a couple of alligator clips. I used the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  emotions, and all emotions, are a part of myself. I’ve started to find a bit ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... hard to hear, especially when we seem to be coming from a position of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  ... I just don't happen to be close to a lot of guys in frats, plus some ... my "a day in the life". It's something I chose to do because I want to ... capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  because I liked to read the blogs. A few years later, I spent a summer in ... other words: you do not need to have had a blog for a zillion years in ... about the job - and consider that it's possible to write a post in half an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  lot of food and I'm kind of still in a food coma, so I'm not going to ... and totally deserve to let off a little steam. And they'll definitely be ... missing the floor Halloween party). It's a fantastic place to come home to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... wanted to come to MIT. They made me realize that MIT is, in a word, awesome ... MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a different campus layout. I look forward to lounging in our non-mahogany rooms ... school in the MIT area to observe and assist with a STEM class for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a ... believed in me thought I wasn’t supposed to be a scientist. I am twenty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  arts ‘immersion’ program. As someone used to equations, numbers and ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic ... experience and exposes you to a wide range of types of people and cultures (and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... talked about this yet in my blog posts, but I have had a longish ... exceedingly real to me, despite the fact that I haven't had a panic attack on

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

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... in 26-100, three times a week!) It was impossible to pass up, so I ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  something useful or intriguing to the team, from a wonderful temperament or ... There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... principle from which to derive a conclusion: Oh, [that student] did / did not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011