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• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a ... be solo or with accompaniment but not in an enemble; 2) a one ... from a Music teacher attached in pdf format. In the body of the email

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  , almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB ... under strain in real-life structures. It would be really useful to know if

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... of pre-made templates for you to copy and use as your own! In this ... 2017, I used a Google Sheet to keep track of my college applications, and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  . My specific role in the project is to work with my postdoc to find ... him a few days ago, and Langer Lab used some of its massive budget to ... you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... , mostly as a joke, called [friend]iscringe, but i started to use it as a ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific ... first borns. The topic in question? Bathrooms. Apparently bathrooms are a ... you a bathroom primer. Now, I only live in one dorm, so I can't speak

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  experience is not a limiting factor. In particular, he tries to find students ... polymer. This innovation would be as simple to use as a band-aid, and would ... . Prof. Karp knew that he wanted to be a bioengineer in college, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  glad to not have any psets or major exams. Keep scrolling to find out why ... weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... structure has to provide sleeping area for the 10 people in our class and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  kitchen that you can use to cook food in, and if you get a few friends ... Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... . Tally up how much you make in a month, subtract out anything you HAVE to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  Senator Edward Kennedy. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in public ... plans to do a doctorate in bioengineering at Oxford. Congrats to ... 's count to 43 Rhodes Scholars. Below, find the "official" biographies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 ... last week finding it, in a coding competition at 3am. It all started ... using modulus instead of having to nest a ton of “if” statements. However

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  need to think about what each word means, and how to arrange them in a ... . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the ... most important unsolved problem in the field. I want to close with a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  pretty cool people. If you want to see engineering in action, just take a ... ground. I seem to be one of the few people in GEL that’s majoring in a ... remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  students in GEL program, and I love the opportunity to meet students from a ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to ... junior year’s Engineering Leadership Lab (ELL) wanted to have a reunion

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  -world adventures and social-engineering, and they use 'hax' or 'haxxed' to denote the ... on a roof or behind a door that is supposed to be locked does. however ... major updating is supposed to be done soon, though that's been true for a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... midnight on Wednesdays so every other week, I had 4 problem sets due in a 24 ... dorm exec is to a single dorm. Every other week, we have General Body

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  . See, I used to run. (Used to.) It was back in my freshman year of high ... the racers in a 400 meter dash, it felt invigorating to know nothing but ... would remember that it used to take a lot more than thinking to tire me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  bothering to chew.  I find myself feeling like a ghost, wading from one event ... and buries me underneath it. How I struggle to find oxygen in this ... needed to be. I've always very much been a more

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with ... badminton. 15) Watching these kittens (which used to mean tuning into a live ... with a cat 38) Listen to music and find new music (Yay spotify!) 39) Find

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  ="i really wanted to find a source, but couldn't find it sorry :( i definitely ... upsetting. Until I thought about some pieces I used to like a lot, and then ... treat blogging as a way for friends to keep in touch with you. Back when I

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025