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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this semester Having musically-inclined friends (and a relative) at MIT Having ... a very inclined treadmill. I paid for my improper shoes / insufficient

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... that respecting your teachers was a thing, and obviously reading while ... reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  : Igor Belakovskiy ’02. Hi! I’m a rising senior studying Mechanical ... with you because I think a lot of you might be like me and would feel the ... : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my ... Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... ! -Common Failures of Class Scheduling -Make a Website! -GIRs: How They Work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it's only for those who have a school counselor. A principal, headmaster, or
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... do any restaurants. We broke our fast with potato chips and a chocolate bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  ’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of days ago I got back from Ireland, where I gave a seminar and served as the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn[annotation note="A goal that was quickly cut short because I got sick :("]by ... able to explore a little more of Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP, but then I realized I could also sneak into a comic book class with the ... taking 60 units and a UROP, which is not terribly more sane than previous

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free ... . Trying out new places in my neighbourhood Now that I Live In A Place TM

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a ... interact with regularly, so this is really only a snapshot of the diverse

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  Picture this. A pavement somewhere along the infinitely stretching ... presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the moment he gets to his destination. He makes a turn to the left, his back

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... , neutral red letters. Immediately inside, the left-hand wall displays a grid ... front of a chalkboard, with a drawing of his or her choice. A spectacled

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... (for his birthday, we made a Whirlpool Galaxy out of cake, frosting, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  If you live in Britain, or in a country sufficiently influenced by ... penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of ... age", and am a third of the way along a reasonably optimistic life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab ... current InternshipPlus experience as a biochem data analyst. As I mentioned

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... you yearn for a simpler time, a quieter time. A time when the internet

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  's drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated ... have led me to a different perspective. It's not all cranky tradition on this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick game that is like a scavenger hunt and therapy session rolled into one ... -relief and (hopefully) a mailbox stuffed with acceptance letters. These letters

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I saw and who I met. Tucson, AZ (A.K.A. Wildcats & Mr. Rattlesnake ... that my seat could be used as a floatation device even though the entire

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006