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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially ... check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... appreciate the harmonious blend of cityscapes and seascapes in the metropolitan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  AUGUST 10 Update! I'm bumping this to the top of the page (shameless ... have received a lot of entries from y'all (during the time when I visited ... out there! Don't let go of your chance to fame and glory on the MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  is a whole room of professors to talk to about the subject. This is ... paragraphs of text are incomprehensible and there's a severe lack of the word ... undergrads that you can't find in most classes. The first opportunity is an

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  [/annotation] workday.  The thought of quitting first crosses my mind when I’m loitering ... Starbucks in Canton, the first suburb outside of Boston city limits for some ... them, I am running on the delightful concoction of sleeplessness, instant

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  of 18.01 in the first six weeks of fall term and covers 18.02 straight ... biology first term, though: Eric Lander, one of the leaders of the Human ... of your first year. I took a theater class in the fall that wasn't a CI

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It ... high school, blissfully unaware of the cutthroat competition of the South ... same routine as all the others. First, an ice breaker. It was meant to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  , won tickets and took my camera along for the trip. On the night of Ring Delivery, we went to the Top of the Hub for some cookies and a good ... 'aime and Oceans 13 for $3 each. The films are shown in one of the large

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy ... looked like a witch! Me: ..... The fourth time was a couple of weeks ago

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  . The insect was properly disposed of and I thought that was it. NOPE. A ... of us know how to use can openers, apparently. The little twisty ... there was a whole toaster sitting next to the microwave, and when we did

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  signed up for this class out of the blue, not really knowing what I was ... something totally out of the ordinary, something beyond the confines of computer science or even STEM. The course description read: The history of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT Admissions Facebook page and Michael C.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX ... area of the dorm you'd like to live in. After that, certain floors, like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  . This entertains me because in the first month of quarantine, I went ... gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... , melting just a patch of ice. I could see the water rush and tumble from my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it ... ’s assignments were the first ones where we had to include sound, which gives ... (the topic of the class today) where our teacher showed us animatics from

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  they can. We had a lot to celebrate. First, we're so proud of the class ... ? First, I'm in the process of setting up an admissions blog server that ... It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  a lot of it was good, a lot of it was glowing.  It was the first time ... . In the middle of March, I set aside the novel I’m working on, promising ... I just sort of bowed my head into the storm.  A few more weeks passed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  the street from Fenway Park. The first floor of the apartment building ... to join my high school's paper. So, I showed up to the first meeting of ... Keuhne (professional golfer who attended the University of Texas) Right

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  the grind since my first year here, of course, and i've talked about ... . and i know that all of this sounds really vague, but that's the whole ... absolutely no idea what college would be like. the whole concept of getting to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  , and the webpage says something to the effect of: "WARNING: THE NEXT PAGE ... morning. All I do, is read her the first line of my offer letter. "Dear ... 've figured out the puzzle-- maybe now I will have a shot of being admitted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  the pan. The first crepe will probably not be as good as the rest of ... removing the first crepe, pour another one fourth cup of batter onto the pan ... on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013