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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  go by so quickly! Everyone who completes the class qualifies to go on ... blood sugar is regulated through a very complex control system to make sure that your body has enough juice to function.) There is also a lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New ... packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  everyone on your hall, it's harder to initiate new conversations. On the flip ... design for first-years. Triples, on the other hand,  “have a tendency to ... 's [annotation note="from arch principles--MIT has a goal of adding 700 new beds to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  meetings in New England: Jenny Rifken will be traveling to Portland, Maine ... to the Bay Area, followed by a trip to the Rocky Mountains and finally ... interview and give you some advice. This is also a good chance for students to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  been a new favorite Where are you reading? I have read on subways ... am to put something on. I mostly listen to music with no words I like a ... of rain of a tent. There are a number of albums that I'm able to put on

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  entirely new to me. And yet it’s a completely different feeling knowing that ... bad to just slow down for a while, to focus more on taking in the world ... This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... moment. 18C would represent a shift to focusing on the underlying math of ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... [/annotation] pumpkins at a time. And we usually only need to start making pumpkins a few

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... accepted to MIT. Jenna's essay on the bus driver was one of many things that ... find "the formula." I don't think "oh, that girl got a 1600 on the SAT

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  calendar, to guarantee each month has at least one three-day weekend. On most ... additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th ... Community Day, to celebrate their upcoming reopening at the new location. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  blast, though. (I'll put a picture of me and my bro on later to embarrass ... and my two high school best friends around on New Year's and b) came to ... *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  the summer is a beautiful thing. No psets. No exams. No pressure to cram ... embarrassing, and one awesome. I'll let you decide which is which. A Trip to Mount Auburn Hospital I admit that a trip to the hospital wasn't really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the ... life returning to the Infinite. The new pre-frosh, sans pre, are arriving on campus! * On second thought, that second one is probably a bad idea

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... things: my last ten hours, which shall from here on out be referred to as ... of Transportation calls a "processing error" and what I chalk up to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  't psetting all the time. On Saturday morning, I woke up early to help run a ... evening, after a protracted battle over which movie to watch, we settled on ... can rely on and friends to keep us going. This year had a lot of bad in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957 ... my friends made up. It's also apparently a term having to do with ... and as such I was stuck next to a man with the least accurate sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  dedicate to this project. I’m also trying to work on a Youth Activism Camp in ... , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  answer session. A New Jersey MIT freshman had come from her spring break to ... being on the fencing team to more general "time management tips ... turn to be the "cool kid" on the block. They're the eager prefrosh who

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by ... them, DrinkableYogurt). I need to give a shout out to two of my ... to a 500-word limit." Kevin says in his blog that 650 words is okay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is ... won’t harp on how the humanities can add to and enhance a STEM education ... about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015