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• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  ... ...and, after three trials by oven, gained the ability to bake a perfect ... a round of 10-hour psets, but turned out to be wildly effective during ... mystical utopia described by the admissions blogs. IAP is a truly magical

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... and is now well on his way to fame and fortune. And by fame and fortune

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  obsessed with Hamilton and wanted to give it a tribute.   Paris, by ... Submarine. It kind of small and a bit before their time, so they decided to ... well-established floor personality, so they decided to run with a comic

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

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  adjective than a unit of measurement, but by unspoken rules we have to keep ... desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am ... ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  To set the mood: Come Home by Baynk. [caption id="attachment_38993 ... first week back. #nofilter.[/caption] Returning back to the 'Tute “After a ... electricity for my new apartment, getting my skates sharpened, getting a haircut

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... 'm special: I run around making plans and getting excited about a million ... everything I try to say sounds like it isn't adequate enough of a description

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular ... particular this week. I find it good to get a nice balance between fiction ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  gets you into a heightened state of awareness (read Flow by Mihaly ... , I went to MIT for college. I graduated about 20 years ago as a ... would be fun to do something else. I spent a few years in the MIT Alumni

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  .005 is in 15 minutes. I go to the basement to get Raising Steam by Terry ... soup. 4:05-6:00 pm: I sit at desk, where I get paid by the hour to guard ... good at guarding packages. Kevin M. ‘18 stops by to pick up a package, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  , complete with a "Chaplain" duck (handed out to new students by the chaplain ... wanted a small table to put in my room, but Rick decided to go all out, and convinced me to add a compartment to my table, so that you could open the top

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  I set to work." *Accompanied by a drawing of what I assume was meant ... to figure out what was wrong and get my numbers to reasonable values. A ... +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... chances of success by adhering to a set of guidelines as a passionless means

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  -word gets thrown around a lot these days, which I think is sort of sad, since ... what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... to these very blogs, as - quite simply - a labor of love. Everyone in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019 ... , and I look forward to it. A lot of reading, though. :-) 21F.302: French ... 's course is taught by Cathy Culot, a native French speaker from Brussels. The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  by members of the United States Congress. I've never been to a baseball ... making. It was very wholesome, and he gave me a few tips on how to get ... her blog post, I'm also trying to make a more conscious effort to catch

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone ... strongly recommend to a friend Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut A ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I ... —at least 4-5 hours a day dedicated to programming. That was a good decision

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... school. You want to capture this moment, a very regular day, yet

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At ... get ready to catch the organ! [caption id="attachment_45482" align ... hope! Maybe take a trip to California, or something. I don't know. I don

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... search. To recap, here's how my internship hunt went: Rejected by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021