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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  their guards. This entry is a response to two excellent comments from ... " unless they specifically tell you. You should go to a small bank to open ... ready for a while. The best I can do is to direct you to this clip from a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  winners a year may seem like a lot, but according to Forbes there are 15,000 nominations per year to choose from. That's a 4% acceptance rate, less than MIT ... the Ministry of Supply founders, a company that makes wrinkle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  genre. Students write a short reaction to each novel, and one short story ... important than ever to look at life from new perspectives, be it the tip of a ... 's Writing and Humanistic Studies department. Dr. Boiko wanted to tell me about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  was going to make a joke about how "IM sports" aren't sports you play ... set to a wide range of modern music. We begin by teaching you the calls ... the PE requirement here. If you're a varsity athlete, earning your 8

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  to a river pathway where I could bike to the mall with my sisters, or ... ” neighborhood, closer to a grocery store, and with a greater density of coffee ... until I was eighteen. Then I moved around a lot, from southern Arizona to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... to drop a class, don't worry." I did not. I took six classes, and I ... a class to listener; I am auditing the class now. Three. Now, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard ... carrying dirty laundry. I couldn’t run off to Boston at a moment's notice. I ... ’ll never end: you wake up on Monday and know that you won’t be able to take a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  up to:   (1) 2.670 (Mechanical Engineering Tools) A class!  But ... like to put a nerdy spin on things. During a lesson on food and water ... important topics like how to walk in crampons ("walk as if you were a cowboy

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... though. I was actually excited! I was initially going to write a post about ... more abstract 18.100B to the more concrete 18.100A, which has been

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... .  False lashes The lashes were a pain to apply. The picture above was the ... pull my braid down, but that hiccup added a few minutes to installing

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every ... 's honestly a rather pleasant way to spend an evening. Said the MIT student ... you can figure out how to do it without making them mad. Usually. 21M

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a ... , and is said to be growing into a small city. Purple mountains shelter us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  yourself. It may seem counterintuitive to take a break from studying ... spend time with my friends, when I take a chance to relax, those are still ... moments. That’s something that I really want to work hard to make sure is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  instead. I'm off to make myself a sandwich and read about protein folding. ... to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  cramps and paralysis, though when boiled, it is used to make herbal tea ... means to be an individual, as a lichen is not one being, but two: a fungus ... environment that the fungus and the alga came together to become lichen. 4. A

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  rate fell nearly a percentage point, from 12.5% to 11.6%. This year ... skills, qualities, and experiences that should make for a really exciting ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  some point, I took a break to refill my mug, pausing on my way out the ... the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... will live in my new apartment for a year while I commute to and from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  12 (the last day of CPW :( ) Chelsea and I boarded a plane to San José ... MIT alums...to the point where most of my dinner table was wearing a ... , then parents. My friends Sameer (a junior at Stanford, who went to middle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013