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• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... and embrace the life I had carefully crafted at MIT. A life where I was ... head above water at MIT. Here, I was someone better than what was chasing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS rElAt

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  around for two weeks swatting at mosquitoes and eating a lot of food. Last year at about this time, I reviewed the status of my progress bars on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  at my laptop screen, scrolling through pages and pages of Janice Smith ... for the semesters to follow, I can't help but look at the path ahead as ... complicated synthesis question? I'm not entirely sure. We might be looking at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  treasured memories from my time at MIT and it reminded me why I love speaking ... class I've taken at MIT) about the history and culture of francophone ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] My profile! The "My Contacts" section at the bottom is a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  This fall, I took SOC-STD 98LH Education and American Society at ... research the history of gender discrimination and Title IX at MIT. I first ... on immigrant students at the Institute (more here). The 1890 yearbook

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  tissue engineering UROP, explored new parts of Boston, and ate only at restaurants that I had never eaten at before. Beyond the statement of the ... of certainty, “No.” My excitement was difficult to reconcile at first

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... actually follow it or not, at least allows me to calm down and start doing ... I took as many as I could at once. So, yeah, I know my stuff, y’all--at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  1. Go home My last final ended at 12pm on a particularly ominous ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I ... my sister met me at the Los Angeles airport and before long, I was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  Note: This post will be updated at irregular intervals today ... sentences I split up at random places. Semantics.) This green armchair, Is so ... library forever. Except it closes at 6pm, So I’d probably get kicked out

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  Nine days ago, I was at the Boston Logan Airport, and it felt strange ... rage, trying to shower and brush and have breakfast and dress up at the ... outside, staring in unbroken awe at the air. I don’t know how long it took

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a ... , for whatever reason, really good at acting like an MIT student." Me ... scheduled to rehearse the duet with the Vocal Director (Ashley, who works at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  very many people in the class (it was ~200, at a time when 3.091 had so ... taking bio early (other than gloating at helping my roommates with their ... reading in the certain thread at College Confidential back in April, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  a birthday formal hall at our college (Emmanuel). This is one of those ... . Usually there are college Fellows present who dine at the head table. This ... sings Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs and gives speeches

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  them as presents at New Year's now - I've gone through The Far Side ... a single word), Sudoku, and so many more. Sometimes I even have two at ... lot more difficult if you don't enjoy what you're doing. But at the same

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  survived my flight into Logan Airport, even though I didn't think I would at right at the end. Logan is (rather unfortunately, in my opinion) located ... cowtown girl at that. I have very little common sense, and when I got here I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well get my first 5.0 at MIT, because I'm not as good at slacking off as I ... moving to Westgate at the end of the month, and suddenly we have to buy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  Lupe (who I'm looking forward to seeing at CPW!) asked, "is it pretty ... line outbound, exit at Kendall/MIT station. CL wrote, "hey Matt, I heard ... at least a few days in advance, if at all possible) than to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter ... supported the education of physics at MIT in a myriad of ways. From developing ... attaining his PhD, Peter began working at MIT in 1984 in a number of different

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  on metal and mortars at Pompeii, set Tetazoo loose upon society ... two-week research trip to Italy, I naturally jumped at the chance. [caption id="attachment_101187" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] waiting at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024