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• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  anymore. I'm sort of going with the whole "leave Europe with zero euros ... the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... done with the parts that involve getting all the videos off of the video

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the ... and warn. In my experience, they've been some of the greatest, most ... ; even the very concept of slam reminded me of a few things that I should

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  've heard of bocce ball for the first time in my life a week ago in Seattle ... the whole city of Boston from up there. There was the entire city I ... mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of ... year. By that point I had filled out the core part of my Common App and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  that graduated in June also went on to med school. One of the reasons my daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... the pre med office for more info. For my part, I'll say first that MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  onto the first rank of a bitboard and shift it back up using the same ... performance of each. The first couple tries were in C++, and my time for perft(6 ... standard chess game, but the whole point of protochess is to design your own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... also meant that I semi-regularly appeared in the door of my old UROP ... with something along the lines of "yeah, no, this is wildly expensive and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  spent the first portions of classes doing a thing called mindful walks in ... first year. Most kids I’ve met end up doing one of the MANY variations of ... continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  was the first day with the new time, and it was kind of exhausting ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... with). The three of us take turns running the meeting and share updates

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  first time. and the values of HS me may have been kept throughout college ... — the usual feelings of hosage, and what to write, and all of that. but ... mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  assign whole books on the study of death in the Civil War for next week ... * for lack of a better title, I have taken the liberty of using the title of the word file Dora sent me. thanks for this awesome blog! :) by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week ... a dorm, the position of desk captain requires actual work, with the ... last sentence. Yesterday, a bunch of us went over to the activities

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  I found myself standing under the widest part of the Great Sail ... backdrop of the rain. It was abnormally warm – maybe as high as [annotation ... end of it; and the end of sophomore fall. Standing under the monument

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  trick is to add the oil very slowly at first, and to add a bit of cold ... restaurants that I had never eaten at before. Beyond the statement of the ... was comfortable, easy, and safe. Safe was good. So what was the point of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  in a place with such a plethora of opportunities. In the fall of my ... focused environmental group run out of the [annotation note ... went with that one. Methane Bubble Traps The goal of my UROP is to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  summary of the report (only 11 pages) can be read here. I anticipate that ... Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the ... of the recommendations will probably start being implemented a few

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  attributable to the cheerleading squad.) I spent the first few weeks of the ... thought I'd talk a little about the jobs I've had at MIT. I've had a job of some sort since Registration Day of my first term at MIT, and I'm glad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... 's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the ... compilation of links to some of MIT's many student health resources at the end

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... this at all, because the first time we went, all of us were sitting ... enough sense. 11) One of the first pies she invents in the show is “I don

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018