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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  when their lives didn’t, not to those on the other end of the trigger. In ... . Suddenly I was on the other side of the line, separated from my family by a ... invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with ... to you. They might even add your resume to the thick stack on their ... weekend, a group of hall residents went to see The Martian. It was awesome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  there are decisions that i worry about long after i know which choice i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do ... hard, but you ain't gonna need it. you're not focusing on what matters to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some ... to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to send multiple admissions officers to ISEF, which will be in Indianapolis

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  -control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and ... to taxi for 40 feet on corrugated roofing. The theme is different every ... engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... make me no less of a manly man, I happened to have two stuffed animals on ... Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  English to Spanish 15,16, 17 is as valid of a solution as quince ... from a handful of lessons, allowing me to spam it on repeat without ... the limited amount of vocabulary the Italian XPRUC comes to test me on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  bit of my inner self for flaws and merits. Why, on December 13, I had to ... go to bed early. This is all pure speculation, of course. But in the ... , and MIT is on a path to it. Not the only path. Not even the definitive

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... of the MIT iGEM team. What is iGEM, you may wonder: “The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation is dedicated to education and

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same ... list of options to choose from for our final project. I chose ... blurring effects, while Poisson image editing is a method of automatically

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  back, which is basically required reading if you want to understand what ... without going on the Internet and trying to find out what is the least ... ’s pretty sad that they have to spell that out on the application. Is it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  unending drive to do better is built in them. However, as I said before there ... science programs and a history of sending students to big schools. In group ... , these students put in an immense amount of work and were able to overcome

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... interact with regularly, so this is really only a snapshot of the diverse

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  the launch vehicle. The strength of the fin can is essential to a stable ... /LOX engine ready for hot-fire, and is currently working on the design of a ... -get-out-what-you-put-into-it’ kind of experience. This is nice because it means you don’t have to take

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  is put on the system causing it to flip over and drift upwards. My ... the rudders [which I drew onto the sheet metal and is now on the robots ... what’s so special back there. Probably alcohol. Or pictures of boobies on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  wondering what my brother wrote on his Flat Ryan, it says "Cinco" which is his ... laughing because he was laughing!") 4. You get to tell these kinds of stories ... who get flattened and gets travel to a bunch of different places via

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  am supposed to define myself now?" On the other side of the phone, my ... , I transferred from my local public school of 800+ students to a ... lot of students enter as the "science kid" or some other variation only

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  'll be well on your way. 4) Find things to do in small blocks of time. Did ... psetted, whilst having plenty of time for movie-thons and Guitar Hero on a ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  on their kid taking all the classes he or she wants to take (trust me ... sort of like having to do one research project per week, which was very ... from the semester on the projector, and assigned one pair of kids to each

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  ? The answer to all of these questions is yes. Does MIT have a football ... , members of the MIT Varsity Football Team have gone on to such accolades as ... Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006