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• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  , you can see a big change over time as "the conversation" about our blog ... should stop doing? What conversations do we want to be a part of, and ... email to me if you don't want to post publicly). It's our job to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Christmas present that cost around $20, which at the time was a lot of money ... with what I think is the coolest paint job in the dorm. It belonged to ... . My favorite part of Cory’s room is without a doubt his plushies. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  'll share them next time, even if they're already a few weeks late. No one ... pretty useful for my summer job as a lifeguard. Yesterday's class was long ... ? Did you end up eating it? Anyway, I'm really excited to maybe be a part

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  their grandmother. However, it's time to move on with this blog post ... procrastinate, I still take time to relax no matter how much work I'm facing, but ... summer, and that's what Part 2 of this post will be: my busy summer. Part 3

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT, Time to Step Up? just in today

  

  Youtube video supplements in college admissions As applicants, what are your thoughts?

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  at the same time given extra responsibilities that hindered their ... within universities is part reality and part perception. True, but I now understand that reality is by far the greater part of the balance.” President

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let ... up in time for breakfast Naked brunch Regular brunch Sushi in ... %. Feeling like I understand absolutely nothing and there is no amount of time

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  rolled around, and this time, I was much more ready to take on challenges ... time I’d ever touched code, and man, were there a lot of TypeError: 'list ... the entire system. Other times, one could look up and see chairs

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  little more specificity here. Remember the time you gave me two entire ... , though. For one, I have a UROP (a research job) that’s in a field totally ... classes are thought-provoking and even intensely personal at times. In the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  be no Ruth or Sam around all the time to make Conner 2 the bastion of ... night, and that just sucks. Please watch something else during this time ... upon a time, Veronica was basically the most awesome person EVER. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  . Unfortunately, I didn't get my column in on time, and the next issue of the Tech ... -President. By the time this is published, I will no longer be in that office, and ... campus issues in the tasks ahead of them. Throughout my time at MIT, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... 's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my ... notoriously tedious and time-consuming. It relies on Java, which I haven

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  ="and it wasn’t  a short list"]times I had failed.[/annotation] What made this particular shortcoming feel so different from the times before? Soon, I realized the only difference was time. I felt similar then, as I do

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at the 'tvte (for the first part, go here). Throughout the school year, we ... first time going on the annual Art Scholars trip! It was an awesome day

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  same time. I committed to the class and last week was one of the most ... the first time in my life, I underpacked. It's another scary feeling

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  , shanties were led by someone known as the “Chanteyman” whose entire job was ... a complex time signature that only he could lead it. What a legend ... song of all time. It's also by Stan Rogers, and chronicles the sinking

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  day). Disconcertingly, there was nobody else down there at the time. I ... while, however, some part of my brain accidentally spills nostalgia all ... 've already stepped halfway into a dreamy-edged flashback. This time, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... comparator three times: “1 is smaller than 5”, “1 is smaller than 9”, so 1 ... numbers multiple times. But what if your comparator was broken? What if it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  more time than I expected 😅) So, I got to spend a pretty cool summer ... incredibly busy, so we agreed to push my writing time until the following ... would get another concentrated period of time that I could commit to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023