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• 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 / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  shorter for me (even though it was just as long for the rest of the crew ... writing; I'm just happy with how it sounds.] On the morning after filming ... Out Loud is how fellow blogger Anastassia B. '16 made her awesome video

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like ... never thought I'd become committed to it. But though I hadn't ridden ... commuting bike. It set me back a few hundred dollars, but I like to think of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  use. "It was so obvious. This entire time. How could you not know you ... much CS experience and not being very good at it. Now, nearly nine ... well as the next steps, since I'm sure it's going to only transform and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  post it. I fail at life, I know.) I woke up on Wednesday morning at 11 ... clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... pretend that's how I've spent the last six weeks. We now return to our super

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• 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 / 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

  “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 / 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 / Admissions

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

  

  rediscover home. It’s a coming-of-age tale, a love story, and a record of how ... Christmas. It’s amazing to see how Pokémon has been able to captivate ... of it. (250 words maximum)[/intro]   If you are familiar with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• 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