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• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for my age, but actually it's just because I saw it while playing Sonic ... for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... writing samples so you can gauge your own level of writing against mine. As

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San Mateo, we’re at booth I22. If you’re around, feel free to stop by! It

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  with a blue edge on top; additionally, there are "barcodes" on walls throughout the playing field which act as landmarks for robots using mapping ... out the course info (and textbook -- available for free online, and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  class for the first time turned out to be more fun than I expected. I plan ... browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... "]ESP[/annotation] in which MIT students teach classes for high schoolers on any topic

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  -med advisor, but instead I'll write my entry about Next House! I've lived for ... on campus, with almost four hundred easy-going people who like to hang out, have fun, and enjoy their time at MIT. Situated on the banks of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with ... can help you with number one, but I have a place to start for number two ... , this song, this song, and this song) 13) Going for a long walk with a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  out with us for three hours every Friday afternoon! So let me reiterate ... gold that he made—and lost—with one of his colleagues in the 1970s. Fun ... back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  With Orientation set to begin for the new MIT freshmen this weekend ... MIT-bound math whiz is latest triumph for O'Bryant By James Vaznis Globe Staff ... class. It bothered him when teachers rewarded the top students with prizes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  Unseasonably gorgeous February days Last Thursday, for whatever ... out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 minutes, and headed out to Boston for some happy sunny day shopping. (Key

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  every day for the free lunch, biked to the wholesale coop for groceries ... malaise. With an overabundance of free time, I would always find myself filling it with activities that were fun but not particularly fulfilling. My

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  to taking for-credit classes, you can do for-credit practicum work with ... with Dramashop again, this time as a sound assistant/operator for the ... [by Harrison Bralower '11] It started with a sound board. When I was

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  along with the other top ten scorers."]3rd overall,[/annotation] winning a ... "round" numbers (those with 0 or 5 in the ones place) might show some trend ... students. Round 3 is identical to Round 2 (you will be paired with the same

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  shipped off to the Bay Area for a super-incredibly-fun ... out in Alameda, CA, I worked for and with some of the smartest people I ... grant you a deferral - your gap year sounds like a ton of fun. For

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  found dance fun but didn’t know of many spaces for beginners until someone ... summers with DynaMIT For two of my summers at MIT, I spent the last week ... For my last blog as an undergraduate, there would be nothing more

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  I’m from the Philippines. There are big things that are different ... isn’t what makes me feel like I’m not in the Philippines anymore ... your breath fogs up with you breathe out? Cool, but only the first time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  . Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright and novelist whose play Topdog/Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making her the first black woman ... favorite author; I even met her a few years ago at a discussion/book signing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT ... play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other ... for athletes and their families. The soccer recruiting process, while

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  explained in a few sentences and even children can play the game with full ... be a GAME.  Do I create a game to play with the cards like with ... me to take it a step back for this year, and do what we can with what

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Sudoku puzzles, and live for double entendres and free food. I know all the ... be completed, they're yelling for (at?) you. Ever since I got accepted ... in the same place, I don't stay there for long. I spent half of my last

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  2007 between continuing with the newly signed band or pursuing his ... that is so typical of life here at MIT, I hear piano chords playing on ... for 'Our Last Night'-- a post-hardcore band Joey was deeply involved in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011