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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  . You’re putting yourself on paper. Recognize the things you did and fell in love with. The traits that make you whole. Does that sound scary? To me it did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  and the fabulous glamorous divas of popular culture. Got it? Now ... and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... the help of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME). I was intrigued, not only ... -20 different room layouts a year I'd say I'm a bit obsessed with the idea of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  i've been in a funny little writing rut, far away from the keyboard ... was scared to do it right. but, i think it's important to share with the ... , and eventually moved out of East Campus (ec). it was not only the dorm i

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  Last Sunday, some friends and I walked across the state of Rhode ... his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide ... . So they did! I heard stories of the Walk when I met Xavier this summer

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  programming concepts through Scratch. The last four sessions are spent working on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of the program. The Application Process I had heard of the program from my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  Kappa Sigma (aka Skullhouse) has a tradition where the senior class goes on a cross rountry road trip between finals week and Commencement. The mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  IAP I took the MIT EMS class to become a certified emergency medical technician and joined the MIT student volunteer service. There are quite a few members in the service so during the semester, it can be difficult to get

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  . Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small Midwestern town located on the lower left side of the palm that is Michigan (I ... ready for some MIT action. I left the plane and descended upon the luggage

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  UPDATE -- April 16, 2011 -- Five years ago I ran the Boston Marathon ... on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  more context (the "real" story, if you will). One of our close friends, Aidan Chambers, is pretty good at chess and played it all the time while ... project in the works since December. What started as a petty joke eventually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that ... slow or quicken the progression of time. So here we are, four years from ... , sometimes it's hard to remember (not because the moments are painful, just

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  after. From her balcony window, I can see the bright lights of the town’s shopping mall, the deserted town square with its Kremlin-shaped playground sets. I can imagine the outline of the forest I would see in the distance

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty With Data, CC poster mihcal1 made the following compelling comment: So basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  Women in 2007 Member of the 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team ... beautiful smile that you'd think that she's the daughter of a Crest employee ... step of the problem once again, and walked out with a smile on her face

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The longest recorded kiss took place in New York City ... up the extra day that I had hanging out on my Eurail pass and take a ... commercial that used "Bohemian Rhapsody" and Sam's Mom ran out to the mall that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the MIT Mystery Hunt was, and what it was like. Since the youth yearn for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over ... (Taylor’s Version) // talked about the Vault tracks, the lyric change, the production, the music video for ‘I Can See You,’ everything // screamed to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with the purpose of documenting East Campus culture and history before the dorm is renovated. The class, now labelled STS.051, will be offered this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with ... better mapping system than a poorly edited PDF. The first map that I ... classwork on campus (more informally known as psetting). The places were

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019