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• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  aristocracy vacationing in the south of France coming to mind. But during my ... for many great reasons. For example, one of my favorite students spent a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  office party with my friend, Evelyn. Evelyn, '07 - Course VI-2, is working ... out the Boston Pops preview concert just in case my post-10 AM wakeup

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  my count) presidents of other colleges and universities - including ... remember my post from way back in 2004 when the selection of Dr. Hockfield

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  student and walk you all through my team’s process throughout the semester. Let’s start with my team: the Red Team. Somehow fate took all the ... tell from the breakdown of the weeks I just outlined. One of my favorite

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  can swing it with my schedule.  The class had 3 main focuses ... my music brain angry. But it did grow on me and I've caught myself more ... ."]Barrett’s Privateers[/annotation] , [annotation note="I this might be my favorite sea

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class ... everything in 6.2050 is built into physical hardware. Plus, my advisor ... these projects, my teammate Richard and I were faced with the daunting

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjvATlcMo9w&feature=emb_title[/embed] My peers continually amaze me, but ... played it before in my life or even held the slightest bit of interest in ... least. Being able to feel immersed in the campus I know and love from my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  Send Me On My Way by Rusted Root from Matilda Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride ... Anastasia When Will My Life Begin from Tangled Touch the Sky from Brave Blue ... , family, and love In My Dreams My Petersburg Journey to the Past + live

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  meals throughout the day; I got most of my calories in two giant portions ... dining hall (but not by the price). My freshman year, Maseeh Dining (the ... time ended. My eating habits and digestive health improved significantly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  previously mentioned Kevin in my blog about snow antics. I built my first and ... member of MIT in August 2014 (yes we share a name; his middle name is my ... ”, “turned my world upside down”. He found some classes very difficult, and the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... often marked by the phrase, “I have to go do my community service.” We ... common good. My experience with students at MIT is that they are deeply

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  --really. My current stage of starting a company could best be described as ... accepted. To my surprise, I got in, and I signed myself up! Best decision so ... Goldstein, a venture capitalist, gave me a few pointers on my product pitch

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  my own interview like it was yesterday. I’ve been an EC for six years ... , and I don’t hesitate to include that in my interview report. Remember ... applicants I interview have Googled me and know a bit about my major, year of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  they could possibly mean. At some point, one of my friends decided to try ... -looking letters like X and L and M and C. The letters didn't look useless to my ... answer. So. Awesome. How my friend figured that one out, I will never

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  . That was one of my biggest questions about MIT, it didn't seem to be ... critical issue. Probably my sketchiest prefrosh moment was due to a lack of ... ). BOTTOM LINE You want my advice? Ok, not just my advice, but also the advice

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  the pictures to my personal blog and see if any of my readers knew who ... . I called my dad and had him look for a while (many hours) and IM ... a show called "My gym partner's a monkey." We hit Wikipedia and found

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  memorizing all the phyla for a big lab practical test. My high school mostly ... my PhD program sent all of us new first-years an Excel spreadsheet with ... interest in biology in my bio honors course this year (along with previous

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  found a few nuggets of wisdom in my last post that will help you and your ... majority of my writings are applicable to the masses. Everyone is welcome, come on in, the water is just fine. In my first piece I addressed

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  This is a blogpost from my friend that is a boy, Raymond Tran '23. I ... talking about this idea for creating "customizable chess." It makes my heart ... would: devote the next six months of my life to writing a chess variant

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  the blogs, but the situation with senior haus has been on my mind and ... . This is the end of a sad saga that began before I or any of my classmates ... , with the Dot and the Green Building in front of me and East Campus on my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017