Course 18
As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics. Michelle has already written a lovely post about Course 14 (economics); I want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18...
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Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT
How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head? On Saturday, February 25, 2017, four intrepid biological...
View ArticleIn Anticipation of Pi Day 2017
Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Not Admitted
There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Waitlisted
Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist,...
View ArticleMIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2021 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < < You can log in using the same username and password that you use...
View ArticleMIT Festival of Learning
“It’s not just a working tool. It’s a thinking tool!” pronounced the award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can...
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freshman spring
Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I've been chugging work from such a consistent, ever-so-slightly-bulging firehose for so long that this fact surprises me. It's almost...
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Sewing minus the machine
I'm taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets, so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals...
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The Long Road to Happiness
I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since sophomore fall, and not really had the courage to do it or the time to think about what I wanted to say. When I was a freshman, I...
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at/around mit
i've been spending a lot of time away from mit. i've been going to lincoln laboratory in lexington once or twice a week (running experiments for my aeroastro capstone). i've been going to...
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A Spring Think
Hello! If this has been posted, chances are, I’m now miles away form MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break trip wayyy long ago (back in the fall!) and now we’re...
View ArticlePSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings!
Dear Admitted, Current, and Former MIT Students, Now that the full MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the Institute! Over spring break (which is this week), your local...
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Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings
*Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on the front door. Inside, we are welcomed into the MIT...
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17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year
It’s spring break and I’m catching up on alone time. I didn’t exactly plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of backlogged self-reflection and emotional processing to do, so...
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A Spring Think
Hello! If this has been posted, chances are, I’m now miles away form MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break trip wayyy long ago (back in the fall!) and now we’re...
View ArticleMIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology
MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found...
View ArticleReaffirming our support for international students
In January, President Trump signed Executive Order 13769, or "travel ban," which, among other things, suspended entry to the United States for residents of certain countries. This past weekend, a...
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Lego Heroines
If you haven’t been following the results of the most recent LEGO Ideas competition, let me fill you in. MIT’s very own Maia Weinstock recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia...
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