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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  spring semester. But for the second half, we arrived on campus and did some ... you can "learn on your own." We signed up despite this, and honestly do ... run with our mom (she was visting us), and got side tracked along the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  girls were lying on their backs, refusing to get up - and the guy from ... flanked by sheer rock on one side and a sheer drop on the other. The views ... because our hostel doesn't serve breakfast on Sundays and apparently neither

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  serious. I jumped off the couch, threw on my running shoes and took to the ... of change, I threw out my well-worn excuses and raised the standards on ... out here, out on the roads again, I was lapping the person I used to be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  beach, though disappointingly, the Boston beach isn’t warm and you can ... while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts-and ... consequence of being a professional perfectionist, pessimist and long

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  the next few days. surviving on snacks and free food scavenged from ... the afternoon, a dozen friends and i gathered on [annotation note ... [annotation note="the newly renovated library located on the east side of campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  on both the internal and public-facing sides. So far, a remarkable ... least. Being able to feel immersed in the campus I know and love from my ... virtual events to be held on the server. Indeed, once the map is complete

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  Linear Algebra, and, at the very last minute, added a Media Lab seminar on ... Campus Historian, is the ubiquitous and indispensable CourseRoad, an open ... CourseRoad and see how it fits! Want to see what it’s like to be Course <

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  this summer, and with the whole being-sisters thing, we understandably ... , spending an hour making references to being on a boat and splashing each other and getting yelled at by the Sheriff for being too close to the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  expletive I can’t use on this blog, because cats read it or something and they ... settle on the sole hallmark and signifier of America’s achievements—the ... classical pianist and will be one of many contributing to the opera

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  and interned over the summer as a research physicist in NRAO. I read ... (read: writers) then the gap between science and the public would be much ... people or the world, and that I'm not smart enough to pursue what I want to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  the passage, and an option that moves on: In the blog post choice ... . And that's fine. I'll refer to this as the "alternate ending", later on ... . Work on the project more → Keep working on your project → Work on your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  about the things in your life that are cool and unique. Don't be afraid to ... out over this, that, and the other - I can promise you that, by the end ... the summer, I had ample opportunity to compile what may (someday) be the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  , and acceptance to the program is based on your completion of the prereqs ... Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... feels like I was a senior a decade ago. I was burning time on facebook the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  , which side is the front?), I decided to be extra careful and attached four ... crept into my internal dialogue with river and sky. Polluted as the ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  this exercise: find a friend. Pick one to be the doctor, and the other ... with MIT, so be forewarned. =D Since the middle of June, I have been ... , despite being a premed, I knew very little about the current US healthcare

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  , have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of ... our robot on Monday night to be ready for the Tuesday night competition ... /lab partners, and they have to be scouted and prepared for.  Fortunately, the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  …it’s overwhelming and astonishing. Sadly, we can’t hang out all the time, because we ... on the street in our host cities. And so on. So, that’s my life update! And now, since it’s our 10th anniversary, a little retrospection on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  four hours, and we’re working over the sounds of MrMrMangoHead on Youtube ... the next hour browsing old memes on the Classical Arts meme page ... Toyota. Heat rashes break up on my arm and neck, because the West African

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  both domestic and international applicants. We have received greater than 2,500 international applications and nearly 9,000 domestic ... competitive year for MIT admissions. Between the early and regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006