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• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  ), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that ... . This actually is a disadvantage during the first two years of med school ... the first few years [of med school], but I think the MIT style of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second ... colleges recognize and accept this. If I'm admitted off of the waitlist, do ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  to join lots of email lists) and signed up to audition for eight of the ... . The first day of auditions was the worst. I had scheduled it so that I ... the end of the semester. You can also just try it for a week and then

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  like this. When it's wet, warm, and kind of dark, when the forecast is ... I love the weather today. I rode my bike home through puddles and gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  ).  We invited all of these professors to tea and connected the institute ... Netherlands. My first day of travel involved taking a plane and traveling to ... a dairy farm and a huge castle where some of the most innovative and

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  it was received and intentional. This program is the first of its kind ... Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the ... . My friend (and one of my favorite people) Caroline M. '18 wrote the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  "images can theoretically be faked but the lack of bowls is tangible and ... citizenship and devotion to the welfare of mit". it is nice to know that not ... interconnectedness, arguing against the alienation of self from the rest of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  (no kidding), and a final presentation. During one of the presentations ... their digital cameras and took a picture of me for the benefit of the ... and mimicked me within the span of 30 minutes. As I left for my 4 pm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  's edition of TechTalk, a newspaper published by the MIT News Office. Why ... , I embarked on the adventure of producing a documentary about the ... you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there ... defense in the vicinity of the basket, the offense has an advantage and can ... kicker can aim at the far left side or far right side of the goal, and the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  We will first begin with a cartoon from one of my favorite webpages ... , Rob. Outside of lecture stand the MIT Muses who have been serenading ... sing to you. Rob: Oh okay. The Muses sing to Rob. Bryan and Rob enter

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... driving this for the first time, Jensen (TA) and Amius are teaching us how ... (wahoo!) and the rest of us swam in a sea of anxiety while Jensen provided

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn ... direction of my seat, and then froze as the gears in my head clicked into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  and learning psychology, but this feels a little like the zone of ... meant seeing the sunrise very occasionally for the first time in months—and the sunrises and sunsets of the past two weeks have been spectacular

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  drive from town to town up and between the hills and see dozens of ... back where I started. Here’s an view of the town (top) and of ... resonated with yells and the incessant thump and scrape of paddles against

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  nightly spooky tours. And kid-friendly “reenactments” of the Trials ... of the oldest [and largest] continuously operating museums in the ... . There’s also Nathaniel Hawthorne’s birthplace and House of the Seven

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  ’t.   On your left will be more of the same and, eventually, a train. Get on ... look into the first floor to contemplate some art. There is a lot of art ... for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  rules, median and IQR will be better indicators of the data because it was ... the aquarium, museum of science, and the Maseeh Boat Cruise come to mind ... our collective dismay, there is another side of the coin: spending money

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of the military, and for me, color guards symbolize each of those qualities ... the shoulder of the cadet next to me and said, "There's a general in

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007