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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when I "grew up." Having been a computer nut since age four, I happily ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Finally back in the office! When we last left off, I'd just finished my Philly school visits. I visited Girls High (Alia's alma mater), then ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero ... like she's going to cough up a kidney or something every time I see her ... readjusted properly after in-house rush. Battle on, Erica. Anyway, tonight I

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

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  relationship between three floors--Conner 2, Conner 3, and Conner 5. I think of ... coloring Levi's hair behind desk. So, when I walked into the dorm, the first thing I saw was this: Now, really, this isn't that unusual for Conner 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  audience POV. In some lucky turn of events, Kayode D. '27 and I managed to ... completely sleeping through ticket launch, I'm here to liveblog our reaction to the event. It's my first time, the vibes are immaculate, and I'm SO

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... me to do a Reddit-style AMA (Ask Me Anything) post.  I wasn't able to do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  The other day I was walking back to Next House when a leaf literally ... 't just a leaf.) It was something out there trying to tell me that I need to wake up, buckle down, and work. Which means I need to stop fooling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion times already, I'm almost an international student. I'm from Hazzard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  This IAP, I took pottery classes! Between class time, open studio, and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  I've always been pretty picky about managing my tabs on my laptop—I ... my computer more than I would otherwise like. These days, I use a web ... a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  As I mentioned in[annotation note="which was uhhh a while ago oops ... learning with the MIT Glass Lab, and I had an absolutely amazing time. Here's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know ... will commemorate that 19 years have passed since September 11, 2001. I have been thinking about 9/11 a lot lately, because unlike most of you, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... .[/annotation] I'll write about that experience more in depth in another blog, but ... many true obligations and Places You Need To Be At. Even when I was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  . Anna's personal Splash stats: 573 High School students 1 or 2 teachers (I ... Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special release, and Splash was overrun by Doctor Who fans. I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  I declared my major. I declared my major. I declared my major. *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the ... , there are no disadvantages (at least, none that I can think of) to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry, I am still alive. Exhausted (like always), but still hanging in there ... actually a pretty traumatizing experience. A few weeks ago, I realized at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  . ------------------------------------- Glairflair17 wrote: "Would a 580 score on the SAT I math section be ... rest of my application materials are up to par?" I'd recommend ... ?" Daniel responded: "I'm fairly certain they will tell you that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  saying that I'm back and Junior year has started. But along with the insane craziness that is my google calendar when I'm at MIT, I've returned with a new found drive to "look at what's beyond the hamster ball." And so I found

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  In Milan I was constantly toeing the line between speaking solely in English, which I feared would make me seem like an entitled American who ... -baked strategy was to affect a sort of sheepish self-awareness—as I butchered every

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a ... Nigeria, most of us I’d like to think, were insulated from this kind of thinking. For six years I attended a school where the nature of interactions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017