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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  to laze around and watch War of the Worlds with Adam's dad (um, lame ... Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... Department of Defense, so his family lives on Okinawa, and it would have been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  formulate a response, before I could think of the joy and fulfillment MIT ... , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and ... pillow to the second it hits the pillow again, I am moving. For the sake of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT ... ;   better than the boston skyline from our side of the charles? you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I ... be a little while until all the dust settles and we can tell you more about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  education and the future of this country. Of course, I have some minor and ... reading the newspaper of record daily during my subway ride to MIT and ... , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  principles to understand the structure and reactivity of organic molecules. Emphasis on substitution and elimination reactions and chemistry of the ... the messiness and imperfection of real-world data as well as key issues

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  Class of 2025 experience: coming out of the COVID lockdown and right into ... expected them to go “haha SIKE!” and then laugh me out of the building ... submissions? Did they want to prank the Board of Directors and the general

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  Hobbes, so he championed the idea of a related concept, and the floor ... Heads of House.   Jake the Dog and Finn the Human   What ... of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... future you’ve always dreamed of (and, no doubt, the one everyone *expects ... his freshman year. This gave him a lot of perspective on the world, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  obliterate all memory of even the tough as rocks New England winter and life is ... head now stuffed full of the things my text book says and wondering, how ... junior or a senior there and was blown away by the setting. "Absolutely

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  dyed over it with red and of course, that’s refused to wash out for the ... about that somewhere else, and you feel like that guy in front of the ... . and thanks for talking with me, by the way. of course. i'm you. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  first two weeks of November, and then last week was suddenly too free. Now ... and not doing many student-life related things because of the time ... around Hong Kong and slowly getting back into the swing of reading and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  , and let my dreams of hair dye fade away. The first time I wanted to dye ... home everywhere I go. I grew up in and just outside the bustling city of ... as well, but I can always trace back the feelings of comfort and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  , and the food is delicious!   Alan XU Class of 2013 MIT ... something to see and do. From Paris, the TGV can also take you to the rest of ... :  I researched and analyzed the current state of the art in wind turbine

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  from all of the Ivy League admissions offices, and I can tell you that ... the admitted (and enrolling) class. kiran asked, "what percent of the ... will "unenroll" at the first college and enroll at the second. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... common data set, over 60% of the classes at MIT have 19 people or fewer ... /explanation/clarification section which meets outside lecture, and often the person teaching the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  So tonight, I'm going to watch my friend Timmy '06 and the rest of the MIT Musical Theatre Guild put on Star Wars: The Musical. I'm kind of excited being a Star Wars fan and all. I'll give my review of the

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  friends and I gathered around the frazzled remains of both the upright and baby grand and took advantage of the opportunity to have our photos taken ... time for it and commit to it. By the end of the concert (sponsored by the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  wrote maybe like 10% of the blog and everything else was from my lovely ... came and went, we’re now in the middle of summer, and last night I couldn ... siblings, the first time I took the courage to go to the local dairy and buy

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025