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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each ... nice personal touch / warm fuzzy feeling to the seemingly heartless process of admissions. When I invited Stephan'13 to come volunteer at the EA

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  friend, Levi observes that:  “He did not belong to that species of persons who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to ... this rare opportunity to go on trips and retreats up in the Northeastern

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine ... to Killarney. I hiked about 4 miles of the Kerry Way before it began to get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own ... return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT ... to be back home.    But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... .']their internal move,[/annotation]I immediately shifted over to audition planning

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... honestly didn’t expect to love New York as much as I did, even though the city is so hyped up. The reasons other people seemed to have for loving

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to ... exciting. My advice to you— If you brought homework, don’t do it. Meet people. Visit every dorm. Talk to fellow incoming freshmen and talk to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  blog entries that I completely lost the motivation to finish as soon as I graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine. (To answer the questions from my previous entry: no, really, I graduated

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  very well or talk to him very often. time passes. frosh fall was when i really got to know [annotation note="cj: the amount of times i am mentioned ... to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... "]GTL[/annotation] applications rolled around, I waxed poetic about my desire to witness a real

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a thesis. also the writing is not very snappy oops the soundtrack to this ... timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  to solve quadratics with origami, use the Axiom of Choice to win ... very hungry and walking to the cafeteria. Suddenly, I was struck by ... , right? I immediately decided it was too difficult a task to actually

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... ’t want to have anything to do with some kind of social elitism or strange

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... rigor, but it doesn’t have to be a grind all the time. So, even though I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... figured I need to actually do something constructive. Those of you in AP Lit ... ' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.” - Robert Burns, To a Mouse And so it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010