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• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  personally and professionally affirming, if for no other reason than the fact ... , and effectively for the betterment of humankind." We begin every ... an appreciation for the value of an MIT education. While I know the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  love to use paint as a base for mixed media things) or a new media artist (I constantly have ideas for immersive art installations) or an ... critic (I sometimes describe my cuisine experience to whoever is out for a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  our minds. Sometimes, when I found myself gazing for long enough upon my ... events for all of the newcomers to our building. And while that promise probably took a year off our lives — story for another time?— it gave us time

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  area, the perfect candidate for the dinner was found: Mu Lan Taiwanese ... last time, although forgetting to ask for names in a Google Form isn’t a ... one table big enough for all of us without incurring a high spending

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for ... ='with the Accelerated Materials Laboratory for Sustainability, headed by my ... happens [for] ~4 days every [annotation note='these are 11 years long

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no ... and pressing paper down for three key reasons: 1.) I liked the Course 18 ... was going to learn for the rest of the month. After doing some reading

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  yearlong membership for $45! it's pretty worth it if you don't have your own ... annual bike auction where you can get decent bikes for prices comparable or ... that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  potted Cattley Guava is fruiting (in USDA zone 6!) it is time for those ... touchstone for student culture. We pay you for this work. It's a pretty good ... answer the kinds of questions that might be useful for identifying their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  , making friends you see for but a few months. that's what summer camp is, and i enjoyed my summer camps. but part of me yearns for relationships that last longer. for the selfish reason of having someone i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  , our oldest members have only been around for three years. this stands in contrast to esp itself, which has been around for sixty years. how does any student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  without revealing any other information about the object. for example: i ... that the balls have different colors the point here is that for me to ... for zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge. the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  before, but for some of you, this was your first time. I also know that ... . The “T” is the shorthand for the MBTA subway system in Boston. Since the ... best decisions you can make when you move. Luckily for me, the Admissions

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  typical SAT/ACT requirement for this year, due to the pandemic.']take tests ... our inbox, these delays have been the source of considerable anxiety for ... —  could use a bit more time to get everything together for their college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  “suspected terrorist” for up to 14 days without warrant. And the bill is ... arresting eight people during an Anti–Terror Bill protest, for supposedly ... party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  credit for 6.0001, by taking an advanced standing exam, didn't go so well ... actually not required for the computer science major, and I was a comp sci major for my first ~2 years at MIT, so I didn't take it freshman spring

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  : The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for ... to start working there all the time, just for the view!) but here's the ... (including an 11.30 trip to Verde's for more packing tape) and was absolutely

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  terrible name) took me down for a week or two. it's been going around, and ... - hands and feet for a few days felt like someone was jabbing a needle into ... you missed for two weeks. that workload you were keeping up with side by

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

   police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... stop typing for more than 7 seconds.   This works to cook up a ... sprinkle in some seasoning and light thesaurusy-words and creativity for the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 ... the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have ... appreciation for The Marauders. I reread the individual books often, and just this past summer I reread the entire series for the first time in a while

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015