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• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  Sierra Nevadas," he replied, with sort of a snooty glance at the stewardess ... where Yosemite is. I thanked him. Now that I'm done chatting with my ... playing with physics. I had the opportunity to present those results in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each ... time, bros and girl-bros. With Campus Preview Weekend and enrollment ... a time, and usually many more, with the exception of five or six hour

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  halls every night. People will argue with me about this, and of course ... services. PROS You don't have to carry a bunch of cash around with you. Your ... can eat what you want, when you want. There is a grocery store with

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  you walk around our campus, you'll see plenty of people with dyed hair ... recognize that you may not connect with everyone, but even if you don ... ). With the help of Kim, the EC Director, we sent it out to a diverse group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  better with more people (intro bio assigns grades almost completely on a ... are better if you do them with the big crowd, and for me, given a chance ... taking bio early (other than gloating at helping my roommates with their

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  with subjects so that people can easily find blog entries on certain ... classes with the student and sign the student's registration card. A ... most MIT students rely more on the upperclassmen with whom they live to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  go to when he was little. We drove down to the Cape with the radio on ... with the radio. Sidenote: I love Cape Cod because it is slightly cheesy and touristy, but still really cute. Adam says (with typical South Shore

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  Excel file with all my pieces of clothing numbered, and each hanger and tag was labeled with the same number). At the end of the week, my mom ... Washington University. I was sharing an efficiency double with Rose '05, and we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  -year academic support program run by the Office of Minority Education with a seven ... freshmen and provide them with all the support they might need to succeed ... balance classes with extracurriculars and social life early, and get a head

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... with my roommates and then I'd be in bed by usually 10. And then repeat

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  chunks do not come by with great regularity). Sometimes I get e-mails with ... anything wrong with that (unless a subset of those questions violate (1)) but ... interview, but I think I've just ruined my chances. I truly empathize with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  X with Harvard. For this and many, many other reasons, I am honored to come ... tunnels and passages with strange wonders and creatures around every corner ... with unusual gifts, with the desire to and ability to push all of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  Cambridge was to have it happen to you. With that said, this was my life ... with worries about if I'll ever see certain people again or if my loved ... slowed to a crawl. With each passing minute, it felt more and more like I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  equipment we have, so if it breaks it needs to be repairable with Home Depot ... house, in a giant room with bunk beds like at a summer camp. It is kept ... .]   10:30 - Meet up with my advisor, Chuck.    [caption id

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  for the top 100 competitors! I flew into New Delhi with six other ... delhi, background: yummy lunch[/caption] Besides interacting with students, I loved bonding with my fellow undergraduate mentors. Whether it

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  with a [annotation note="Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program ... and labs being open-sourced on the website and Youtube, with this Obama ... class ran from Monday to Friday with a scheduled 1:00-4:00 P.M. lecture

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  with the number keys, so i've been using emoticons with the brackets a ... --who, mind you, I have done a pset all nighter most weeks this semester with ... wanted to argue with her, but I'm literally writing this blog instead of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  comment if you have any songs you want us to add to it!"]a playlist with ... or in between. Create something silly with or for your friends. Watch ... on these blogs with some open threads for you to chat with people who

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best ... at Chinatown with my SSP friends. I went up to Harvard Station when my ... buy a succulent from a tiny flowershop bursting with greenery. As for

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024