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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably ... summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... to that crazy Institvte up north. (I still remember writing this blog ... the other end of that blog) I wanted to write this entry last year when

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  This blog is to all the '14's, '15s, '16s+ who are scared after ... looking at the college admissions process from the other angle (I like to try to identify the MATCH in the people I meet here at MIT - it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Six minutes ago I was supposed to be out on my flight from Los Angeles to Boston, returning a little later from my Thanksgiving break than everyone else due to the simple fact that flights were cheaper today rather

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  , yeah, and Kevin McCarthy has failed to win on the first ballot ... Last week, I took Amtrak across the country, from Boston to San ... up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to ... failing, and falling back on P/NR. Sometimes I just can’t find the motivation to do things. I was given weeks, but only paid my pistol club dues

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  -year class). I was initially tempted to submit a blank sheet of printer paper ... ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers ... really well for me. Evaluating the Prompt Perhaps the obvious place to ... opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

    6.006(6.1210): Introduction to Algorithms  21W.771: Advanced Poetry ... the class I liked the least but mostly because I wanted to take all of ... this semester, so I have to take the seminar"]Undergraduate Teaching

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an outsider, less of a string of expectations you fail to meet, less ... an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  fails to feel at least slightly terrifying for reasons I'm still trying to ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  public service program. I failed, and almost decided to give up. My ... view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the mountaintop were those who would travel to Brazil to study insects

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... -important fail-if-you-miss-it concert band rehearsal that night. Luckily, her dad ... was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  didn’t think I would be able to meet the initial deadline we had set. I ... 's really good and you should go read it. If you want to learn more about what went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  21 = Vegas + MIT kids. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT ... off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  -like qualities”. While a spork fails to be both a fork (the tines are too short) or ... apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... Books. On the semi-bright side, I had signed up for an overnight visit to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be ... . "For goodness' sakes! Are you going to come see me play tonight ... , he rubbed his sleepy eyes and began to stand up. "Where's your concert

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  smiles and hugs never fail to cheer us up after a long day at school. The ... trying to debate about housing or even recommend to you what you should do. I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  had begun forming, thanks to a failed New Year resolution—and worked his ... I got the urge to write this short story about 2 days ago. Then, I decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014