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• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  something for everyone that they failed to convey what made their institution ... admissions. “It helped me get real about what we’re actually looking for,” she ... put on things, trying to be something for everyone.” In USA Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying ... , I still wanted to be able to take a break and do some things for fun ... thing, if you ever visit a college campus... ASK QUESTIONS AND PLAY

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play ... acceptable). CDs will be forwarded on to the music department for evaluation ... date of birth are included. You do not need to be a music major for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  (the secret twentieth character for sword really does look a little like ... 's bedroom using My Little Ponies while Allison played emo covers of Paula ... trembling because I was so excited. And for dessert, peanut butter pie

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  shops I haven't shown you photos of. Up first: the Lab for Manufacturing ... a class for learning all about drafting and machine tools, and 2 ... write the code for the CNC machines: For those of you not familiar with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  and banana slices for breakfast every day, packed myself lunch every day for work, and made dinner with my roommates almost daily. I burnt the ... 've had a lot of experiences with fabrication. For those of you unfamiliar

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  squirrels. With Spotify playing in both ears, The freedom of a lazy Saturday ... . If you are also sitting in a green armchair, you should play these ... apprehensive about joining a lab for the first time. I thought, “Wow, so many

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... for any instance of the problem? We need something concrete acts as an ... property. For example: L = {(a, b, c) | a + b = c} is a language of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... before I sat in Bates Hall for about two hours and made progress on my ... draft done for [annotation note="Intro to Media Studies"]CMS.100

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  playing at 4 am on Dorm Row and people screaming as they bolted down the ... panic about our living situations for the next few months. My perspective ... days so that I’d have no regrets. For context, I live in Burton

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  practice for competitions. And while Paolo and I would definitely just play on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  , and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a ... horrible, not great. It was fine, for the most part, until two weeks ago ... meant seeing the sunrise very occasionally for the first time in months

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  choose your own sounds for Stepper to play, and (2) let you visualize your ... for the past few months, from 7 to 10 pm, I've thought about that ... honest criticism when someone thinks your work is shoddy.  Don't settle for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed my flight :( BUT I took it like a man, pulled out my macbook and played ... trying to do Biochem Psets, to eating the Grill's pizza, notorious for it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... is a breeding ground for weirdly poignant relationships with food. A friend of mine ate nothing but bread and cereal for a week. I once ate

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  Thanksgiving. The MIT pistol team has a reputation for not only being very good ... bless it with a single perfect shot. That's love for ya right there ... my "I," they grouped there for some reason. Haven't you wanted your

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  I've never been one for actually truly believing in karma (what goes ... accepting it. Here's how things played out: I woke up on Sunday morning with ... summaries are short and reading them will help prepare you for class. This

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  're looking for? I remember reading a comment last year on one of the blogs ... ("having lots of work to do", "sympathy for peers who can't go to some fun ... to help out your friends" are pretty universal, for instance), but

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... I managed to need so much luggage for a 3-month trip to Germany. Anyway, check back tomorrow for some info on classes and/or a map of MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  songs. Ready for It will never not be a banger opening song. I also ... ’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were incredible but also empowering for Taylor, which is really cool. In poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023