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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  out, someone calls me out and I have to respond “oh man, you’re right ... who I am. This all started when moving to Cambridge for a year caused a bit of a culture shock that made me want to better understand my

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... . True story. It is possible to succeed at MIT even if your high school ... finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  make friends at school if they don’t have to go through what I am going ... this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group(s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  Alley," but to make matters confusing all of the dorm addresses are on "Memorial Dr." Adding to it is that everybody just calls it dorm row. View Larger Map Anywho, if one were to visit dorm row today they'd see minivans

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  be making the trip to Hartford. Yikes. All's well that ends well. We ... first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before, otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some ... engineers may use in their career in order to measure certain properties, such ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  credits will be appended onto your transcript. Moreover, you need to meet ... Intensive). A side note: you're actually required to take a CI class during your first year at MIT, or you'll be considered to be in "non

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  Google, to the Kushal Foundation itself that was founded by pioneers of ... occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  's supposed to be, you know, making the bread rise. Oops. I switched to whole ... you think you know what you need... you're making progress... you're ... feel like you're stagnating. Sometimes, you have to really reflect on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  the programs will allow your child to learn some things about MIT and ... efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT ... makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... you can use your imagination to picture what it was like. Or better yet ... your interests and passions - from astrophysics to political science to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  have to buy condoms. Make sure you go when they're actually open (I ... FREE AT MIT MEDICAL. YES, YOU HEARD ME. YOUR PARENTS DON'T EVEN HAVE TO ... to do is make an appointment with Medical's OB/GYN and if that goes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  not, but the point is that you actually know where you’re going to be ... AP Physics class, so if you’re planning to take that ASE one day, you should make sure to prepare thoroughly during the summer using MIT material

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  , WILG also makes me wish I had been born a size zero woman when they hand ... wanted to say, really, but I had to think of something MIT-related because ... way. And I was going to write a blog entry saying basically, "Anybody

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  and the difficult decisions we make in selection. This year, we received ... , undoubtedly, make selection even more difficult this year. I can tell already ... month reading and crafting great summaries of your applications, and now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  , and it can all feel artless. But then you might look to your left, and ... to make time. The rest I'm hoping I can store away for future use and ... someone else's, not the story you're supposed to tell. Ife asked what it was

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  the MIT/Boston bubble - making friends through hiking Change to ... students at a high school tennis academy, teens who are striving to “make it ... this … You become just what you have given your life to be. Not merely

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge ... "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  stafe, make the most of your quarantine, and don't forget to always sing ... are memey, some will make me cry as soon as i listen to them, but all of ... makes me really feel like everything is going to be ok I Like Me Better

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  to know is that I love science (and other things, like bluegrass music ... 't like science. My reponse? When you're at a place like MIT, it's easy to forget that people have actually managed to pull off the incredible

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013