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• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  's list of 52 things not to do if you want to go to MIT. 'No matter how ... consider that. As for your independent thoughts -- it's not going to work ... how it fails to work. The difficulty (and the value) of such an exercise

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  learning disorders in general. We are beginning to find that dyslexia is not ... switch letters as they first learn to read, and that the difficulty is not ... representations that you do have comes with the cost of not being able to perceive

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  through the gaps. How are we going to orient the Frisbee? Not flat ... Disclaimer 1: It was very difficult to know how to pitch this. If it ... the following: From above, some (but not all) colors invert: red to cyan

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  my subconscious subscribes to"]hobbies[/annotation] are DEFINITELY NOT ... , I forgot how fun knitting is. It’s so incredibly satisfying to watch ... —it’s discouraging sometimes to see how much the people around me are getting done, how

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  and kind of learned how to skate from Moria '06 and Joe '08. I was also ... about how he's going to kill himself because Lucie was unfaithful. Then he ... another aria about how he's going to kill himself for like ten more minutes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  tends to make their own I3 video; this year, not every community has a ... Class of 2023 has been spending their summer deciding where to live with the assistance of the MIT guide to residences. One major component of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd grade, just thought I'd share. Mollie, maybe Adam wants to make this the ... chose to do a rap about him. This only demonstrates how nerdy I was even

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  Challenge is meant to be just for fun, and an interesting way to see just how ... students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match ... of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  least that's how it works at East Campus. If you don't want to stay here ... , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer housing is available to basically any continuing undergrad -- the cost is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  Welcome to my seventh and final(!) tourist-y post. Previously, I have ... two towns are great if you want to relax, and Somerville especially can ... arranged by subway stop, from nearest to farthest (with respect to MIT's main

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  track of how much butter I used up, but since this blog is supposed to be ... practical to know how to ask for help, how to focus on what you can improve ... to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you are a senior. (If you're younger, they may or may not want to give you ... , they may still need a marketer or something else and just not expect to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  additional information: sign in, click the light green tab "how to APPLY" and ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an interview required? No, it's not required, but I highly suggest having one

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  has taken me two months to figure out how to fix my broken blog. I am ... Things you should not do on Athena, not even accidentally, because it will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  Python for Rhino: Not sure how I'm going to make it more ... the mechanism of these reactions. The idea is to extract how self ... segments, and 6 more raising them to different inclines). How would you feel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  magic or not. for instance, at one point the characters discuss how oral ... wanting to found a startup despite not having any problem areas or causes in ... our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  character Gogol and also, to some extent (and not without shame), the ... /faith I tend to be skeptical about outcomes. Often, I'm right but not happy ... 're working, then you're not, and then you have new ideas on which to work, and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  power plant to build in a town while taking into account how the residents ... unproductive because I work better in the morning, and sleep is forcing me to not ... language, but I would not continue with the class next semester. How do I

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  coming to MIT for a day and wanted to see how our research on the thermal conversion of turkey offal to see how the project was coming along. Since Andy ... If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005