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• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ’m saying is that there’s a lot more to life than getting all your homework ... admissions officers can get to know about this so that they don't think I am an ... insane to listen to my classmates argue with our teachers to get 2 points

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  people you care about. How to get around MIT I guess I’ll end the post with ... completely, but I guess I’m decent at it now—it’s how to get around MIT. I ... to pull up a map. On Wednesday, I went between events hosted by various

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to ... rocket ships. They're sick and exhausted but they still want to get up and ... ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  had to get it done during IAP. Maybe in just one night. I went in to ... a mill by pressing a button to release or tighten around a bit, and I ... for hours. The heat gets to you slowly. Blisters blossom all over your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  and stoicism in the way I climb to not get frustrated, really consider ... enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  blindered by your work that you will never be able to look around and see what ... run-up to the S&L crisis. Here's what Lewis had to say about the path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  is many people? How did they get to be on this grand decision ... meal that doesn't come with fries. I'm also pretty excited to get totally ... I'm on a 13-hour flight from San Francisco to Tokyo, connecting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  's something you've never tried before. It’s an amazing time to get a head start ... inner hipster by listening to music your friends have never heard of at ... results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  language eroded some more, so that by the time you get to, say, Spanish ... . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off ... evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention, by Guy Deutscher, and it was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  movie Kate decides to get serious, slits her wrists, and uses the blood to ... or something, he has to tame a wild stallion, which he does just by ... the story of the next two days when I get back to sweet, sweet Boston on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... out The Akamai Story: From Theory to Practice by Tom Leighton. Akamai ... . With a collection of almost 400 videos, it's a little daunting to pick

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  within to without (simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the ... offered. ISEF would happen if it was meant to be, and by all means I ... being in a completely new city. Maybe it was getting to know people from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an ... . I get to show off how much I’ve improved, and I get to watch my ... we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... "Eclectic Humanities Courses" major? =p Anyways. I won't bore you by speaking at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  get lost looking into the future. I don’t want to live through fall just ... lot to me. I just hope that by the end of our four years here, or by ... informed by cheesy holiday movies and distant memories of childhood days

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... covered that. Let me explain to you my life in the context of those ELLs in ... power plant to build in a town while taking into account how the residents

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  something i really want to get around to doing during my lifetime then i ... there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have no classes on tuesdays and thursdays, i’m trying to make progress on 2

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What ... pharmacy to get cough drops. In addition, a Kazakh teacher at Shoqan had ... that was recommended to me by another American teacher I met on the plane

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  the best differentiation between different body parts. In order to get ... ’re starting to read speeches by African leaders of decolonization calling for ... my time on weekday nights has been dedicated to studying scientific

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  boy because swims in his own poop water and then likes to get too ... larger whole by seemingly unhinging his jaw which is amusing to watch ... 's attached herself to my mom. she's a bit of a picky eater and likes wet food

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021