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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D ... made an excellent blog post about it at the time. (I, personally, was ... Mirchi, MIT’s South Asian fusion dance team, and lives in Maseeh. It was in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  the mold by seeing how it has shaped others who were once like you. It ... Not long ago, I met with an admitted MIT student, whom I will call ... further from home? How should they evaluate perceived tradeoffs between

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  this project was to try and see how long the water source would last ... today. I've written two blogs about it already, “A Story About Muti” and “Why is There No Water”. This was a long, arduous process, seriously

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It's okay, you have a 50/50 chance. It's either a yes or a no." Oversimplified ... exact. It was fun."]24 hours.)[/annotation] As I was sitting on a sleeping

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  the internet and dived into research. It didn’t take long to come across College Confidential. At first, it seemed like a rare gem - a unique ... a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  engineer--it teaches you how to understand, work with, develop, and ... teaches you how to communicate excellently, and it teaches you how to work ... /aerodynamics lecturer, welcomes us all to a year of Unified Engineering, a year-long, four

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  )). I had no idea how many drafts (six, though it depends on how you count it) and evenings (lots) go into an article, or how much work goes into planning and editing it and by how many people (also lots). I worked on it in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  stressful. But once upon a time, it was magic, and if I think about it long ... family, and they tell me about how NEPA has gotten worse lately. It’s a ... radar. I learned how to cope with my demons, even if it meant pushing back

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  it, and yes you are that scatterbrained and here's how we can work with ... , selectively forgetting what it was like to struggle for long days and nights at ... Admissions that started it all: "When we admit a class of students to MIT, it

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  haiku log It’s pretty cool how Robo-CJ picked up roughly the correct format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... tests, long before I contemplated completing an application for college ... , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  consumption algorithm". Time complexity is a measure of how long a program (or ... is pretty normal – no darker, colder, or drearier than it has been ... support needed to make it happen."]ridiculous events[/annotation]. People

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  enough. It's been a long road for someone like me to get my foot in the ... apartment. Lots of people sign year-long leases on apartments (including those ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  a career in aerospace research? How did I figure it all out? These are ... figure out how BeaverCube was rotated relative to the Earth. It’s hard to ... fascinated, never bored. At first, I thought it was strange how much I loved my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in ... one floor or lounge of a dorm, and it will be your family. Here are some ... ’re absolutely certain where you want to live, it’s helpful to discover different

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ’t have any well-defined goals going into it (which, honestly, is how lots ... about how it’d go; despite all of the work we put into testing (probably ... , and testing this project. The two of us wanted to share how the other

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  experiences applying to jobs, and does not necessarily reflect every MIT student ... 's four years of job applications. However, it is generally understood that ... coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  laptop and press my head against it, letting out a long gush of air ... part of me eternally alive. But I’m not sure how. December 24, 2017 It’s ... something like relief. It was certainly a tumultuous year on a global scale

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  socialize. Catching up. How are you doing? What’s it like there? And a lot of ... ’s already left, that feeling of powerlessness about the whole thing. But it’s ... ’t cried about it. And it’s odd, because I came into this whole mess getting

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  enough at the language, and it would take too long. I simply had to tell ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was ... forget about it the next day. When I was 12 years old I didn’t write while

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016