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• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  day"] the end of every year. [/annotation] I write one to my future self ... note="conversations under the star-studded skies of New Hampshire, 'how ... of the herbs didn’t sprout, and the other half eventually died due to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  drop back to four. I've provided my first impressions of each class ... 5.112, the intro chemistry for masochists class that I took as a first ... else from a first lecture. 9.22 (A Clinical Approach to the Human Brain

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  break after handing in a copy of my master’s thesis. The first day I was ... first application of bleach to not touch the lightened section, but I got ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I ... and on the required tests. She earned an ACT composite score of 32

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious ... 're familiar with another visit, and you've decided to get the worst out of the ... good idea. the broth is slightly clear and has a coat of oil on top. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... take.  I showed up for Writing Science Fiction on the first day extremely

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the ... about the college process with all of you. I'm incredibly excited to join

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  's first time traveling outside of the US, and he remarked that "this feels ... , the hostel bed is very cozy and has lots of wool blankets and a big ... we were impatient to explore Quito's Old Town. Quito is the capital of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  postal worker. To those of you, I bring item #6 from the yellow To-Do Post ... the pockets of my lab coat. (I work with mice, and I love them. Rats are ... written "Students Exempt from the Test" and a list of names. And sure enough

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first ... aspect of the X chromosome and its role in biology - in the first few weeks ... , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  -long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build ... up against those of MIT students? Diane said that the visitors ... boundaries sometimes, and so we forget what the customer asked for in the first

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  First of all, Welcome to the MIT Family! (click to see full ... !). Eventually, the portal will include all kinds of cool things like CPW ... . Plan what to do with the Official Copy of the Admissions Letter that will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but ... gave me my first chance to foray into the land of MIT Admissions Blogging

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF. The table at dinner. In the first picture, Ethan, Desh, Matt, Maggie and Maysun (all '10); in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  þrym gefrunon hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon… Those are the first words of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of ... 's on the list. I hope something more interesting than this bag of Oreos

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  some museums in the near future. You can watch my first day of NYC life ... Fest which is arguably one of the biggest event, if not the biggest event, of ... in Times Square watched The Book of Mormon on Broadway gotten lost

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  pset in the first third of the semester, one paper presentation, a big ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least ... of my days as a competitive programmer, when the time complexity of an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  way. Amongst other things, I’ve been taking pictures of the changing ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a variety of fall-themed Trader Joe’s snacks (the maple syrup fudge is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... constricted greatly by where you live, because all of the dorms with dining

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014