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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  you can choose the best spot to seek, and vice versa for your choice in ... —more money in the pot is better for everyone, but everyone’s personal incentive ... this paper is also a fun read. For fun, a few games that didn’t make the

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  to choose MIT, but rather to help you to make the best decision for you ... economics classes. On the other hand, graduate school is scary for many ... the best thing they could do for the world was to earn as much money as

  • by Phi A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  lives of female faculty here']The history of women at MIT is long and rich ... STEM”. I see the arguments for women-specific programs being adverse to the movement as a whole; I also see the necessity for them to combat

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  just put one foot in front of the other for as long as is necessary. I ... , because it is impossible for me to separate MIT from the Marathon. They fit ... nearly so. That means that I can focus on doing the best I can for myself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  the kitchen for a snack and everyone is there. “I should be asleep,” you ... have no mouth but you must scream for ice cream Jake I. ‘16 It is the ... tickets for more tesserae. You check your email. Your name is drawn from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The ... freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with ... during my summer of Interphase is that this isn’t the case. People ask “how

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... seek ways to unlock the secret formula to secure admission. For starters, I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and ... this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best ... of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the ... campus. Here is the view from the Longfellow Bridge from the MIT side. MIT is behind us, the Charles River is below us, and Boston is in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  (the smart lamp) will periodically poll the server for the color it is ... loop of the code for the ESP32. If there is no input query, the server ... functionality to make it an alarm clock. For the alarm clock features, there is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same, except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look up - this parallel universe is also one where art transports you

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  cook-off didn’t [annotation note="which is probably for the best, at ... shell of her former self when everything she stands for, that fear is the ... Beware! There will be many spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was ... , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  applying to MIT. I thought I'd post it again (recycling is good for the ... . When I applied, I was well aware of the fact that MIT attracts the best ... as the others. For example, almost all the people I've talked to have

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  Suite to make ridiculous creations for fun. Here is the first GIF I ever ... , which is true, but beside the point. I got volunteer hours for NHS through ... compare the two for fun. But anyway! During high school, I: Didn

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  long ethernet cables for the lights from the loading docks), but I did ... aiming for here. On the last day before Caltech left, as a parting gift ... put in the 12x 24 piece of acrylic, and I watched the laser cutter for

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... cause has actually been identified as a suitable explanation for the ... , prompting inquiries into “differing cultural values” to account for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  ....very soon..." One of many lessons I've learned is that waiting for things to ... in the sand about what would break me, where I'd decide enough is too ... 's senior class is the group that came in right as I left. How I am now that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... orange. But not all is the same. My hair is growing out. I just bought ... institution) is hard. There’s the first problem of figuring out exactly how I

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023