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• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  sometimes ask students to imagine who reads their applications and to tell me ... . That we are there to judge them and find flaws in them. The truth is, we are all in this profession because we like students. We want to serve

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants ... , I knew next to nothing about our newly inducted president until I sat with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  [/annotation] – and where better to breathe in that sweet, American, summer air than in ... took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... enough that I have to hype myself up to jump in. The initial plunge is an

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  ought to begin this post with a motivation. CJ: Motivation? There was ... hours and 39 minutes. I copied the post and sent it to Alan. Alan ... pretty quickly. I suggested doing this to CJ... [caption id

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no one is permitted to touch it until exactly 6:30pm. 7:06pm: The first ... . 7:28pm: It's tough when writers have to balance their articles with

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  the monthly rent was high (relative to the other options). Sublet an ... in MIT's graduate dormitories) in Boston/Cambridge, but want to live elsewhere in the summer. These people then sublet their space to students like

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to ... much to people who've never been exposed to MIT. To MIT students, those ... , with unambiguous and precise meanings. But to my friends and even, to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of ... everything I did today. I think it's pretty cool to see what's changed and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The ... follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... students hail from every corner of the globe: New Zealand to New York City

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  questions, including the one written above. Rather than asking applicants to ... questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real person. But this isn’t a blog about how to write a college essay. If you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  Nowadays we seem to primarily battle problem sets and thesis snakes ... sick right when I got back to Boston after IAP, so up until a few days ... is my friend David K. ‘16. He brought a giant teddy bear friend to all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... he made the song Tiny Dancer, which I could belt out and get close to ... to songs I didn’t even realize I knew and admiring the outfits. The

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if those 60 seconds were going to be my last, and then loudly putting my ... people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  feelings on things, so in honor of New Year’s Eve, I decided to reflect on ... because I’ve had to sheepishly check the MIT map saved on my phone more recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less organized than something like NaNoWriMo, and more just an excuse to be disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel ... delivering dinner to a friend who wasn't feeling well. Because it's (very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the ... ) expressly forbid taking pictures. So, I decided to take pictures of part of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019