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• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  always great -- use the web to get inspiration for a project that you can ... in Brigham Young's historic house (where, for the first time, I tied ... Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  depends on where you live. In MacGregor, it's fairly rare for a student to ... areas, you can just send it home. And I suspect that whether or not you ... . Anonymous asked, Do you know if an MIT undergrad majoring in physics can apply

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  HARDBALL. Ask current students anything, and you'll be able to get a good ... important, and that you may think that these things are of little importance, and that's great. Also, feel free to comment with other things you find

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  sometimes, but this semester proved to me that I can get it done. 2.009 pushed ... public a LOT of times: for MIT Monologues, where I wrote and memorized an 8-minute monologue; for a club where I teach oral storytelling; and for 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  regardless of where you end up for school, you'll be able to get a great ... best to get you psyched about MIT. But anxiety runs high, as you ... should be a momentous occasion, where I have something important to say (I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  eaten by owls before you can get a photo of it. IT ATE OUR MOTH. (Photo ... , sometimes people will support you. I first tried to get funding through a ... photo on the web. Can you tell that these moths are the same?       Two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  searching, it’s time to change course, to take the necessary steps to get you ... flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT ... ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... imagined. One big part of that rightness is all the ways that I can see the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  me introduce to you our new bloggers! Class of 2015:  ... station that allows you to select "play", "pause", or ... supplies. Kirsten plans to major in 2 and 20 to make robots that can gently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The ... 's Reuse-Housing, where people can look for houses or roommates; there's Reuse-Ask, where people can ask for things others might have that they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your ... food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food ... allergy. He is still alive." another mom writes, "Can you explain the meal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  .). These are just a few small ideas - I know you can think of others tailored ... things you can do between now and Saturday afternoon: -Buy really cool brain-related t-shirts on the Internet. Now you too can declare your

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  ’t mean you can’t do it.” I used that affirmation to push back against ... find moments of happiness when and where I can. To ignore such moments of ... To always do what others want you to do? To work until you can work no

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  Everything else, I can take care of. Any takers? Anyway, since MIT Cable gets ... until I can get home and watch the show in its full glory. Yeah, I really ... you go if you want to spend six years making toys and get a PHD out of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  . Maybe you can understand why choices get stuck in my brain, sometimes ... tell this story so that you can see just how far I spiral. The truth is ... and thoughtful. I can tell you know yourself very well.”  “Haha,” I say

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  peaks. As you can see below, that distance is bigger for red waves than ... in what happens when you take white light and "subtract" red: you get ... website, you can play around with different combinations (instead of 0

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  how truly massive this movement is, and just how clever people can get ... community events in the morning, where people made signs and other art at City ... speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  Is this you? Are you an MIT student who can't get in on the October ... the Integration Bee gets awarded the title of "Grand Integrator," you ... bananas on your head. Nothing can get better than that. Con: There are no

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  minutes and get more sleep? Even better. Getting Out of the MIT Bubble On a ... Roll (NYC), August   Showing Myself that I Can For one of the first times in my life, I felt like I could get better at something. I skated

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018