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• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviewing applicants. It’s a unique and amazing way to stay connected to MIT ... right after) the deadline. It’s in your best interest not to be part of ... college interview. It’s perfectly ok to wear the same clothes you wore to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  people’s lives but about which I knew almost nothing when I started, and ... graduate school. The ability to read has long been linked in society’s mind ... latest research is finding dyslexia’s roots in unexpected places, with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  experimental results to help people and change the world. Also, let’s be honest ... for underclassmen), and a grand total of two semesters before it’s time ... one: doing things. It’s what it sounds like. What sounds awesome in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  MIT, making Panhel the largest women’s organization on campus ... community service section of each sorority’s website 3 – Health and Wellness: It’s hard to stay healthy at MIT! Because of this, each of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  Taxes”. It’s a [annotation note="Communication Intensive in the Humanities, Arts"]CI-H[/annotation] philosophy class, and it’s a grand old time! The ... . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That’s

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  ="specifically the Google one it’s so bright and happy!"]Minesweeper[/annotation] in ... patterns like that scene from Queen’s Gambit with the chess on the ceiling (I never watched Queen’s Gambit so idk if this is actually accurate). This is

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  live music. There’s SO much water! Austin is a green city. You can go ... there’s an international array of cuisine outside Texan food, too ... Austin. It’s lively, yet also full of quiet nooks. It’s geographically

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  disassemble it and get our hands on the clock’s internal organs with all the ... project is not only allowed but actively encouraged and loved. That’s what ... . That’s why we made liquid nitrogen ice cream every week and went star

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  once it’s frozen, you throw it in a food processor with a bit of lemon juice and a bit of honey and you process it until it’s smooth. That’s how ... it’s a nice treat for the summer. The thing is, when you put everything

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  first two), started by Jonathan learning the critic’s monologue from ... recalling that the tinyurl from Jett’s recitation last week was also tungsten ... person’s language permeates through other people around them. on a somewhat

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  -fulfilling prophecies. oedipus’s parents learn that he will kill his father and marry his ... so than people who don’t expect it, and that’s a response i would still ... significantly less physical attraction in general. it’s truly bizarre that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  failing for the most part. it’s been a lot of fun and we’ve had some good ... teaching and helping out with esp programs over the past few years, and it’s ... situations where a few people end up having to do everyone else's tasks). there’s

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  . It’s the color of an old fluorescent light, like the square of ... your tears in the rain, but you can certainly feel them. [annotation note="it’s ... reflected shine of the Boston skyline. There’s a soft coolness that settles on

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  52,[/annotation] there is exactly one men’s restroom. It has two sinks ... , it’s not exactly under-used. Back in April, one of the paper towel ... going out and trying new things as much as I used to. It’s a feeling I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... there, and I read a few of Masha’s from 21W.762: Poetry Workshop. Then ... poem each week.  At the end of July, inspired by my friend Sophia W.’s

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  , and realize that it’s Monday and the next night you’ll get eight hours ... makerspace I just got access to, IDC, where there’s an embroidery machine and a ... on machines you didn’t know the name of before. There’s a sense that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  the mid-1900s. Its members are sometimes found in the depths of the ... them their controversial status. "That's them! That’s the MIT Beaver Club ... appease the doll. “Time’s fun when you’re having flies!” – KerMIT "NO

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  for nearly two months (?!) - i told myself it was writer’s block, but ... that’s the fun of life though, that you never know what might happen next ... actually have. who’s to say that any of these lives are better than the other

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and it’s something i struggle to understand. the claim is something like ... the easiest it’s ever been in my time at mit, i am more occupied than ... love for the people they’re around or if it’s really just hate for the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  relationships”. There’s a lot of depth behind both of these contributions, and as ... “control” group. For those in the treatment group, [annotation note='there’s ... difference between the treatment group’s outcomes and the control group’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021