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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  ? Well, it’s the start of a new half of college. This year, I was asked ... new half means a feeling of freshness added to old experiences. I ... ! Fukuzawa Yukichi is known as the “Voltaire of the East,” and is still on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  undergrad lounge is my favorite place on campus. By the way, hi! I’m Juliana ... how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth ... the EAPS Undergrad Lounge on the 8th floor of the Green Building

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  ) are not frozen in time, they're a foundation upon which new members of ... curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my first entries, but I assume that I've picked up new readers since July '05

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  sunrise in only a handful of hours, like the world outside was on fast ... into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... , “Of all the airports I’ve been in, Logan International is on my shit

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  fan of salad dressing on pizza. That said, I've recently been broadening ... class of the day is on pulsars. 11am, and 25 kids this time. They ask ... . It's a big room. There are a lot of kids. But standing up on that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  in a nice piece of sheet music. I looked around on YouTube to see if ... your enjoyment, a video of me playing the clarinet solo from Muse's new ... Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  outside of school on the manuscript. My mind wandered in class—I was ... the Deal of the Week so my face was on the front page of Publishers ... beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I ... new generation of digitally integrated musical instruments. But hey ... great article on the Opera of the Future over on the MIT News Office site

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  . On our way to dinner, Adam made the brilliant decision to jump over a large puddle of water on the steps of the subway station... and land squarely on his butt in the middle of said puddle because the area on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  double on the third floor of Next House, specifically in Safety Third (the ... later and in Florida, already parted ways with our room of 3 semesters, making this blog post about how, indeed, our double is one of two on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  continued to hone his development skills since then, working on a plethora of ... email. On top of that, he's spent much of his spare time reading about ... side of things. I’m planning on attacking these essays vociferously over

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16 here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of ... you’ve never sang.” Trust me on that one. The adult world of MIT is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  have drastically different ways of spending their precious "spare" time ... A little bit ago, a prospective student wanted some insight on what a typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young ... we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a ... interview, and would like to prepare. Here is my advice: You of course know

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  , some warm weather eventually came our way, and we took full advantage of ... When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it's over and I've waited forever

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop ... on my water bottle, door, and laptop. i spent a lot of time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... like you in that kind of way ;)” vibe. In my mind I would not be happier ... just dream of one day being able to live in my “Heaven on Earth” and 4

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  price of a subcompact. Dude. I opened the door and was flooded with "new ... gave me some good feedback on my presentation - two things to be exact. I ... At the end of my last entry, I was sitting in the Tampa airport

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  , however, I spent a good chunk of my free time exploring Boston, and made a ... of stuff on Amazon. while this was happening, three more friends joined ... would still have enough space in our car on the way down. we planned to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  engineering,” I said. I had decided this was a good way to help the environment ... group of undergrads and grad students who work on different environmental ... , how one trend builds on another, so you can see where each new pattern

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021