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• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  better - you SHOULD be angry with us. At the same time, if I could ask certain folks to stop with the cheap shots, I would really appreciate it. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  big stacks of folders to evaluate, still with summary cards (or "E-3 ... anything is better than year after year with the Pepto-Bismol Pink E-3 cards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Lista's face with the car driving behind her... wow. Lista might be my favorite character in the novel. Still, I don't get what's up with all these

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  most pressing global challenge of our time. Solutions for mitigating and ... combine scientific understanding of the earth’s systems with engineering ... and influence policy solutions for mitigation and adaptation In a 3Q

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  less about mit than it does about me. for the same reason, there's only ... matters to you won't always line up with what matters to others. if none of your reasons for choosing mit are your reasons, it might be better not to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , save for the mechanical whirring that plague every dorm basement, we got ... the Stata gym with my roommate, my legs hurt so much I was mentally ... gotten to the point of squatting it with ease years ago, was a challenge

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  observations with a generous sprinkling of impostor syndrome.   ... you learn to care for others. practicing that is one of the best things you can do to prepare for MIT.

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  second for that to make sense. But we have an agreement. I don't tell them ... tower is still standing with that huge gaping hole in it." And then

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  My Wednesday: 9:00 AM -- Swim Test at the Zesiger (Z) Center. For ... the MIT-France Program at an info session/reception For undergrads, the ... reunion 7:00 AM -- PE Jogging class with Sam '07 And so the cycle begins

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  know to join the team, too, at least for the summer. The company is ... 't; MacOS and Linux coming soon, I'm told), you may want to sign up and try ... article :)) -- being a recent grad i can vouch for the kind of enthusiasm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... , in my graduation speech, with strangers I met at conferences. After I ... down to 14E-304: a cozy little seminar room with a central table and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  classes i’ve taken at mit, along with molecular basis of infectious disease ... labs where you make spectrometers, quantum dots, leds, and sensors. for ... most mind-blowing moment from the course was, for me it was when we drew

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  value our relationship so much for that, but to paint it all as simply ... who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... good or what one should automatically strive for, but that’s for a post

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  and pay application fees, for many schools and not just one, in but just ... friends got accepted early. i felt happy for them, but it felt like token ... deeply, deeply jealous. i told them i got deferred and they responded with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  because I've been a sourdough bread conoisseur for like a decade, that ... sourdough starter, like having a pet, is very good for me. But also a bit tricky. For the first week, I was just feeding him the regular flour we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... have ideas for posts that are going to be great!! So great! I just need ... . Plaques hang above the larger exhibits, with notes scribbled in the margins

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... 100% sure this is the right school for you but you have external ... to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs ... 'm on have exploded with commentary, and there will be a survey and a ... to begin with, if they arrive after it was implemented. They have no

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts, and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown ... in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... , for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual ... blogging, but wasn't sure if the audience would remain for the Class of 2019

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025