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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my ... grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  mechanical work. Which is frankly the perfect realization for me. My degree ... about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  a class. It's been a hard few weeks for my friends too, with the long ... 's also been a rough few weeks for the MIT community overall, with the ... for Your Thoughts", a compilation of the responses of members from all

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  but about the person. Sure MIT's is a shortcut that opens doors, but if ... begged the TA's for a regrade and they finally gave me a 60, subtracting ... . When the former is not possible because of circumstances outside of your

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of the season on the Charles River this past Monday night. The view is of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a ... working. Here is our kitchen, which is probably not the kitchen you ... right wall of the kitchen, is our fuse box:   Do you know about fuses? I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  , that's saying a lot. This is one of the best things about being a premed ... academic capabilities, it is excessive for the purposes of being premed and ... minuses in GPA - grades are assigned strictly by letter grade for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  rescinded if they are disciplined for joining the protests, while other ... integrity on its face. The purpose of this blog post is to communicate that ... from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a

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

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  't want to wait for the next cycle to begin before I told this collaborative ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of ... stairwells, situated on Ames Street directly across from the Central Scientific ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... , well, I think this message from the hackers says it best: We recognize ... communities they work with. This is not to say that the individuals recognized

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best ... to pay a premium for a patty made of beans. So, the idea is simple: you ... make it have a height, and thus, the cube is born. You can also input

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  could hear of the room. "Um, school is good," I said. After a few more ... comforts would yank us back to the paths drawn for us before we were born ... to MIT for my sophomore year.  The week before I flew off to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  , for some reason, Milk wasn’t so gracelessly disposed. Perhaps the wealth ... to live, and is currently one of the oldest and proudest residents of ... its potential mootriculation, made us think that the Milk might be best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  you're different." The truth is that, for the most part, this strategy ... Market, a tourist attraction with notoriously high prices, for the sake of ... extremely clear, '28th best high school violinist in South Dakota' is not a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . Bargain shopping is not for the faint of heart, but for those willing to ... which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure ... . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally ... ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The last time I was on an airplane, I was going the other direction - San

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  directly to the Office of Admissions the FINAL APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION ... aid:a) Fill out the APPLICATION FOR FINANCIAL AID and send it directly ... now, a half-century later, as the 2022–2023 application cycle is in full

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022