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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  useful, except how to be a hosted prefrosh. Jon and my host lived on Conner ... walk home. Or choreograph a dance to Toxic. Or prepare potatoes in a way ... '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  throwing. Each participant has a time slot of 1 minute to perform in front ... until last summer. I came to MIT desiring a technical education in ... able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  sometimes it can be hard to find a convenient time and place for your ... memorable to us, especially when we have a number of interviews in a short ... highly technical work to your grandmother in a way that she will understand

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  responded with much glee, mostly because I wanted to use a cheesy pun (double ... ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... the aforementioned Lucy to go for a drive. Driving by muscle memory led

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  , fervor, a fire in the belly, whatever you want to call it - is still really ... the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... was applying, I realized that talking to another person - whether it's a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  are used day to day in the industry. I think the real point of MIT isn ... work well together in order to build a good car. Those years showed the ... and Computer Science (6-2), and I wanted to write a blog about MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in ... waiting to go in for my recitation one morning when I overheard a tour guide ... -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  I spent four days in pure agony before seeing a dentist and finding ... to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie - who is a super expert birdwatcher - invited me to go on a "birding" trip

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  difficulty. A hat tip to my boss, Chris Peterson, for finding this challenge ... .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... 've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the ... people! First, I got an email from Eric more than a week ago (to give you ... character in the picture is a modification of the 'Masked Rider' who was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  challenge in the weeks ahead is to ultimately select a school from the list of ... so thrilled to welcome you to campus in September. I know you'll have a ... In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no ... ’s “bad” in a vague or general sense but I guess I trust whomever is

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  MEng is designed to be a three-semester program, and I'm one term in, and ... hold a knife and butter a turkey and how to make a meal for over a ... of December, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts with a friend. It was

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  , my goal up until that time in my life - to get into a good college ... tells you what to do after that. I was floating around in a swamp swimming ... different Lego blocks together and to see it all work in the end. It's a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure ... only one measurement, and refuses to let you use his scale more than once ... is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  everything I wanted to be, but everything I wished I could find around me as I ... after I comMITted; four years and eleven months after I applied to be a ... , compassion, curiosity and a desire to grow -- but no idea what to do with them

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.

  

  'll get to your questions soon - although most of them are about missing materials, and Matt already did a great job of addressing that topic.) (Thanks to Christina for finding the picture for me.)

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing ... , in second grade. I got a little cup taped to my desk and I would watch ... away, helping out around the house. We were doing a lot of renovations in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... Institute. These beautiful, glorious lulls come in a variety of flavors ... in a reasonable amount of effort over the break. (Kind of like high

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008