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• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  had planned out a google doc of logistics the day before. due to ... all day and do nothing but studying fact: we work hard, but we do a lot ... something claim: boston weather sucks   fact: well, only a little bit if you

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  Cambridge area companies such as CDK Global and Google to have a group of ... IAP I took the MIT EMS class to become a certified emergency medical technician and joined the MIT student volunteer service. There are quite a few

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  blog to show that there *isn't* a 'best way' to choose where to apply ... , applying is still scary and depends on a bunch of personal factors.   ... school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... ,” [annotation note="see also: “so false.” can be used as a filler/form of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  friends and remember to message them back and Google Calendar a time to meet ... As if someone flipped a switch, this year's unnaturally warm autumn ... ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  've become a bit behind in answering your comments. It's been nearly two months ... won't be a problem, no worries. We, of course, have a procedure for that ... - I had my interview almost a month and a half ago. I sent the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a ... from Japonaise Bakery; it was a squat, proud building with a large yard and wrought-iron gates, with a high square window on the facade. Then it

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  white letters on a green backdrop, three Greek letters. *** A few weeks ... under a mound of problem sets and midterms. However, each time I'm thought ... . First: I remember being a speck among many one afternoon, staring across a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  Wow. You guys asked some hard questions! And a lot of them. No ... the subject line (it helps Google sort my mail). Read through, enjoy, and soak up all the trivial goodness that is: Q&A Are MIT students

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  might be worth it to google a map of DTW and see which way is the fastest to get there Okay well i googled and like Is it gonna be a run instead ... ” person.[annotation note="Is that a type of person? I don't actually know

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the ... . During CPW, a thousand prefrosh descend upon the MIT campus to participate

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  , and I’d had a really long day, but with every step I took, I felt my ... two weeks: I got a UROP! I attended a mixer organized by the MIT ... ’t do anything along those lines last year—I didn’t send out a single cold

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  plans for the day. The plan: a group of friends would go to Fogo de Chão ... This is a (long) post detailing the week in which both MIT and ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  ), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... with knew a grad student from MIT and asked us whether we would like to stay over for a night at the Institute. Having heard so many amazing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  month, and maybe this'll inspire me to write more. A new laptop. I got a new laptop! It's a beautiful lightly-used ThinkPad T470 that I got off ... spring, which was when my old laptop, a ThinkPad E560, started becoming

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  Nearly three years ago, I published a post provocatively titled ... . Scheduling and Registration DEGREE REQUIREMENTS (for a formal overview, go ... , Arts, and Social Sciences, and 3-4 subjects in one department to attain a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... ? Internships as a 6-9 (Anything you want!) Example internships I've had ... ). Course 6-9 (Computation and Cognition) is a joint major between the two

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  ' eclipse chasing tales dumped into a compilation blog:  Kano Allison ... flooded me: awe, joy, confusion, denial, and horror. The world shifted for a ... , we have a peaceful dawn and an idyllic sundown, yet they seem to mostly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce.  Sadly, like a lot of ... + a desire to pretend at adulting = overly ambitious attempts to cook massive group meals! My friends and I are actually planning to do a big

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023