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• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes it is hard because you don't know your audience and have ... wrote: [my advice] boils down to: don't try to write an essay to impress

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  disappeared off the blogosphere!" And it's true - I am sorry! I don't know what ... hall when you happen to have a bajillion questions about the exam isn't

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  that weren’t updated either. When I brought this up to my supervisor and ... on other sites at all because I didn’t want to tell my supervisor how

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  , and since my bus out of Pittsburgh didn’t leave for another 11 hours, I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  about it, I don't even sleep while I blog, usually. Fantastic thing about ... week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  little while. But don't worry! You get to squat under one of those spigot ... they hadn't even noticed the city was surrounded by mountains, a marked

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  Happy New Year, everyone! As much as I loved the MIT gym, I don’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center ... haven’t had too much time to venture out of Oxford, but the few occasions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  . Structurally, Cambridge and MIT couldn't be more different. Learning is divided ... sometimes plagued with interview questions that some MIT students won't see

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  research doesn’t get you jazzed up about biomedical research, then I don’t

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  range is 18 lanes, so nine of our shooters shot tonight. I wasn't one of ... . Looking at the menu I saw a half-pound burger with bacon, but I wasn't sure

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  (except for “How do I get into MIT?” I still don’t know what to say to that ... arts and crafts below, all courtesy of Dan ‘10. Unfortunately, I can't

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  to better know you as a person. And we also use tenants of LΔ. We don't ... written ad nauseam - "You don't have to be perfect to be admitted to MIT

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  imagine. (Not to mention my gas stove, which I don't know how to ignite ... is done here is litigation-based and strictly confidential, I can't

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  reoccurring. Can be substituted for one CI-HASS subject. O. Buyukozturk, T ... , prevention of dementia and dyslexia. Enrollment limited to 25. T. N. Byrne 11

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  Francisco. If you haven't yet, you should start by reading part one and part ... train: #5, currently on time listening to: 鱼丁糸, “I Don’t Care (鱼版)” Good ... this year?” I hadn’t thought about this question much, surprisingly; the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  on hand when I’m in a rush, and where everything that doesn’t fit into ... ’s two here--the Tony Moly one is running out, and my friend Dora T. ‘18 ... moisturizer was one I got for my face but didn’t like enough, so now I just use

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end ... memory to brights is spending bits on information that your eyes won't use ... sure that the light doesn't rotate at all, and is therefore unable to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  people who weren't naturally talented and weren't "serious enough." Putting ... never understood why that couldn't be called Harvard Bridge instead (since ... races with Kathy, but couldn't help letting loose at some of the shorter

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  Francisco. If you haven't yet, you should start by reading part one, part two ... nearly complete. It has been quite the time, and I can’t say that all of it ... fear that something won’t happen without me—I put in for orchestra

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  from backstage, we don’t actually get to watch the show. In fact, with ... Logarhythms captivated us with an ambitious a cappella setlist: Don’t Lose Sight ... ! Of course, it wouldn’t be a CPW Closing Show without inviting the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024