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• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to ... growing up seemed to differ from those of other kids.  I remember only ... globe.  I grew up hating my culture; from feeling a hot shame whenever my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  group (or same-named group, anyway) that went up in Building 66 on the 10

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  the career fair. I only used it to look up some of the smaller companies ... returned to me so far. I write up my psets for 8.022 and 18.701 Algebra I ... .022. I remember waking up the morning of the 18.701 midterm, eating a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  of the fake plants I hung up (not ready to take care of another living ... will look at each other during the liturgy and have laughter boil up our ... ago, I buckled up and binge-cooked, and it was amazing. I made lasagna

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  . Logistically, ~15 hours of my week suddenly opened up. Emotionally, I miss it a ... together a portfolio), setting up informational interviews, doing (hopefully ... comfortable talking about my experiences and coming up with passable solutions

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  seminars you can sign up for. The seminars last one semester, like a ... ). Lastly, because heating up metal makes it look wayyyy weirder than you ... , especially right after it's been heated up to ductility, when you hit it with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  kept up with my blogs, you are all aware of my most prized possession- my ... and I came up with almost nothing. At one point in time I would have ... push myself to think out of the box this year and come up with some

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  had no idea about until last week. I picked up my cheese and pastry ... take the river route along Memorial Drive. But because I ended up at a ... England, set up camp in Cambridge. At the time Cambridge was nothing more

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  the boxes for them. MIT dorms also offer a storage plan that covers up ... in sorority recruitment, so by the time I showed up she had already ... able to use one of MacGregor's carts to get my boxes up the elevator

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  dorm showers—their water pressure, the speed of them heating up. It hit ... . One might stay up all night on Thursday to finish a problem set, and all ... for all my friendships has been staying up to talk until 7am (helps that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  would wake up every morning to the sound of crew teams rowing up and down ... answer: moving services that come to your dorm, pick up your boxes, store ... . It ends up costing about the same as self- storage and you don't need

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  . 3. Spending the last moments up to the AP Statistics exam whipping and ... driving up the whole eastern United States and realizing, standing in my ... launch day, the thing went flying up in the air, and we all stood in

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  remotely have feelings for. So I ended up dating a boy (we’ll call him ... MIT). He ended up going to a school closer to home, I ended up flying to ... way. Who knows. However! I have not given up! There is actually someone

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast ... . Do you need a tissue to mop up the tears of joy you have shed from ... Tube videos of comedians doing their stand-up or being on talk shows. Current

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  How I felt before coming up with this blag idea lol (Why should you not ... work in a coffee shop, or the Boston Public Library, or meet up with ... up a conversation. “I’m just working here after church,” he said

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  than good. So here are some things I've been up to over the last few ... systems, i.e. mixed up with cultural, legal, economic, and political forces ... -marathon up in New Hampshire, but my knees and hips are pretty beaten up from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests ... our Early Action process. We will accept up to November test scores for Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q: If I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  little bit more deeply into how we came up with that concept, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016