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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  to colleges. Obviously, if you're reading this blog, MIT is on your ... bio as well. I used to think that if you wanted to have a variety of ... their ideas well to people outside of their fields and instituted a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to ... stuck on our bikes in a thunderstorm where we took to a revolving door at ... ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  going to pick up a new hobby. I haven't started that goal, and I was ... griptape. Actually getting myself to step on the board was a physical and ... prefers not to be on a hazardous rolling strip of wood. That's what you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  play as Ordell, a twenty-something bookworm who moved to a new city and ... [/caption] Micron is a rhythm puzzle game, where you place pieces on a board to ... game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  would react to being woken up at 8. I had a class that grades attendance ... could pitch their startups to the venture capitalists and get feedback on ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church ... should all move there. It's great that you don't have to move to New York or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  website, ~34 hours of practice on Duolingo provides an equal education to a ... from a handful of lessons, allowing me to spam it on repeat without ... to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to ... QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a ... about the answers. My advice to a high school sophomore or junior

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  community to play on a server with them. My particular favorites are Tubbo ... Saturday activities: bundling up in my bed, turning on the TV to put on a ... Minecraft was dying, I leeched on to other creators, mainly going to the indie

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  more than a spattering of sawdust. So these were the events leading up to ... consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on ... not expect them to so quickly, that would be highly unusual and diligent

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... current social structure places so much emphasis on adhering to norms and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid ... to ensure that you will never fail because you spent too much time on a ... Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot ... than those flavor packets. What is a bachelor (laughs) to do? One

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  "]boba[/annotation]. then it's back to the office, and i have a 1-on-1 with steven and he ... different places on earth, walking from memory to memory, making new friends ... interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... to the gas station to grab a few drinks. Fifteen seconds outside, and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  to deal with personal matters: a friend left on leave, bonds broken ... , I thought I knew how to handle life. In fact, I had a clear vision in ... new paths. It’s horrifying sometimes to think how much knowledge there

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  a job. He says, "at MIT, it's good to always be on the lookout for ... making a new discovery to be very "adrenaline-inducing." Though the day-to ... the Lodish lab, they even went together on a day trip to climb Mt

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  campaign to feed and clothe the homeless. Even students on a budget are ... many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while ... struggle to put food on the table everyday, and I thought to myself, "Let

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  review over the weekend. Despite the fact that I'm a fairly new reader, I ... " section: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting, fairly rugged

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in Somerset County, New Jersey, where the Italian soccer team happened to be ... family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006