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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  the fastest way to work and what they mean by "la noche madrileña"- the ... who I knew was getting to Madrid the same day as me to start her job ... , so we'll be sure to visit some of the more famous places when she gets

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as ... . People talk a lot about the "transition" from high school to MIT. But the ... tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  idea that you have to get out of the building and really understand ... ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other ... "Communication Systems and Networks", or as I like to call it, "How the Internet

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  be nice to get a break from the institute for a little while. I Wrote ... can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good, and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  didn't speak or read the language. Often, we would have to get from point ... to all the places I wanted to see, wasn't taking advantage of being ... we also eat Thai food after class. But so far, we've stuck to the basic

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  , reaching out to nations all over the world. By 2015, 9.77% of the ... object of this Club shall be to promote, by all legitimate means, the ... committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  actually get out on the water. Over the summer, I finally managed to get on ... her family to lean on during a pretty difficult time in the pandemic ... . For the first five months of 2021, I lived right next to the Museum of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  While we can't recommend specific classes, you may want to compare the courses offered at your institution to MIT's by referring to the MIT ... what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... every year for a few years, I suppose it's supposed to signify the first ... to talk about how to make blog posts, the few guidelines we have about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... to stay safe, but the request felt empty. How could any of us ensure ... muted grief, the kind of grief that has learned to avoid demanding

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  Entries are judged by the Floor Faculty Fellows, MIT Staff, MIT Housemasters ... to step up and become the floor's new Apple Bake Chair (TM). No other ... investment anyway It's truly glorious to see the floor in the hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  conducted interview form and we will be sure to get the interview report ... ) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... advice would be to not sweat the small stuff. Everything will work out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  I can get my hands on. I've been known to walk down an aisle of the ... the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... just sitting there, trying to ignore the incessant Beach Boys music they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... the introduction to E.L. Doctorow's novel City of God. I quote it for ... being kicked in the face by an ox, except rather than concussing the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  by the time I had actually gotten around to planning out 07/07/07 it ... and feeling full to the brim with celebratory joy, I started to get a ... /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  decided. At this particular pop-up, I got the opportunity to get to know ... At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  !Helping Students with Asperger's and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Go To CollegeThe ... : The Good, the Bad, and the Oh-So-Stale I am drawn to sessions with ... is very concerned about the stress placed on students and families by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  how to breathe underwater. When W.W.W. returned home, exhausted by the ... class, taking a break to walk along the Charles with a new-ish friend ... review, I'm deciding to be at home. I'm taking stock of the semester that

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  . Get some ice cream. Whatever. Use a countdown app to countdown the ... senioritis project–something to do in the time that you procrastinate all of ... )__” and go to all the places and eat the things :3 (I actually am doing this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  better way to relax after a long week than a free a cappella concert by the ... A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013