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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  . For the first five months of 2021, I lived right next to the Museum of ... Cambridge in January of 2021, it was the first time since I left for college ... my blog where I left off — the version of me typing up this blog post

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although most of the distribution is done by NGOs. Our first, rather impromptu meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However ... ) Program, and experienced one of the best weeks of my life. Ever since then ... many arts classes here at MIT as I can fit into my schedule. All of the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  the whole thing, I got to see a couple of rounds of competition. Maybe ... because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of ... went down to the Museum of Science, over to Boston, all down the shore of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the ... restaurant. I give them an estimate of a party of 15, based on the number of ... poll the names of people who were available. (Oops) Cue a second Google

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  potential Olympic contender or if this is the first time you've ever thrown a ... ! Students interested in playing varsity sports should contact the coach of ... With 33 varsity sports teams, MIT is the largest DIII athletics
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... wrestler that the singer (and presumed protagonist of the album) watched as a ... is what I remember:  The creator of this album, John Darnielle, didn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  spent the day catching up about our summers and EATING. First Stop ... getting our fill of food, we went to the Cincinnati Reds game where they actually won a game for once. Highlight of the Game: When the mascot did the

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  man reading the words, but then, in retrospect the prize for first place was a set of encyclopedias. Then the internet became popular, so HA!) I ... engineering minor instead. Up until the middle of my sophomore year, I still

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  Hackensack, NJ something that wasn't true. In this neck of the woods, people ... of my meeting I popped open my PowerBook, accessed the score, and ... was true. The problem was, I told this audience of ~230 people that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... sandwiches with out-of-this-world names after political figures ("The Dick

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... aficionado, Walter, to develop my first roll of film ever. (amusingly, I used to make fun of all my friends in high school who shot film (see: the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -D, there are usually open spots by the first day of class, and you can go to the first day of the class and have the professor sign an Add Form for ... friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which ... 40 bags of biodegradable (edible) packing peanuts and filled the lounge ... added. This means that they stick to the sweat that was seeping out of

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures ... your friends or family. The hardest part of applying to college. The best ... togetherness, that at the most basic level, you're all going through a rite of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first ... arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can ... llamas and alpacas. the pc running out of a shoebox built solely for vr

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... predicament eerily reminiscent of when I got rejected from The Cheesecake

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  -mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person ... organelles of the cell. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... the first snow. I remember people explaining how frostbite works. I

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015