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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  community. Also, outreach isn't necessarily something you do wearing a nametag ... "I think that I could make a black hole," Carl says. I raise an eyebrow. "Really? How?" He rubs his hands together and squints. A lightbulb

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  with a couple of other summer students. It's also less fun to do than ... Sometime last year, a prospective student e-mailed me asking about ... absolutely essential skill for a scientist.  

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a ... Halloween. Had I used this idea, my physics class would have become a set that ... Infinite Corridor: Otherwise known as a bustling, oft-clogged artery of MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... grabbing a blue book being handed out. I didn’t do as well as I thought I ... Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  MIT, and a majority of students we admit each year do not have any major ... recommendations (as I am not a guidance counselor), but I do promise to have more to ... college to become a RN. How do I put this in my application?" Amended from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  . When the sun is out, I'm out. When I need to sleep, I do. A third policy ... gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and ... suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... lately is that MIT is a competitive and cutthroat place, and that ... stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  difficult to keep the bad thoughts away, and I end up doing a lot of staring ... Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the ... .   Heart-shaped things are a love language. I love this time of year

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  't you guys a tech school? What are you doing here?!" Ahem. Engineers can ... conferences. I personally think that doing MUN is a very welcome break from the ... Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  Optimus Prime can be a truck or a robot depending on what he needs to do, a ... to do. I have lecture twice a week. In recitations, a non ... . Out of six. Hey, I had better stuff to do. And I got a B+ on the test

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  miles in 8 months. How do you do that? RUN A F***ING LOT. No joke, I was ... 'm the author of such classics as That time we streamed a dance party ... derived during a lecture and my brain almost popped It's been four years

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  learned. That's what I'm doing right now, writing this at a cafe near ... take in one’s hand a thread which continues always and through all ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  'm a huge fan of streamed content and consume a lot of it! Games, IRL stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in ... 14 years, Ethan, who is a student as UCSD and he kindly let me stay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  you're here! There's way too much stuff to do, and it's not a true MIT ... , and I'm actually on campus about as often as when I was still a student ... , I am old and retired. I was Course 9, and now I'm a research assistant

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  ,[/annotation] which went fine; i did a little better than i expected to do. saturday ... ever since. the past week and a half has been truly bad. and a lot of it ... ’s probably not a lot, and i’ve had friends who’ve gone through more. but i like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  that our hearts go out to you. We understand that there is a lot on your ... as flexible as possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so ...  [email protected]. We’ll be here to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure we get your
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  I made a video-thing! During the second snow day of the semester, I roped my friends Cathy '17 and Tara '17 into making a video for all you ... allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... were usually left with a mixed bag of news (it turns out I am incredibly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  course), take some classes, or do a mini-internship (called an "externship") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  up at a good college doing something I loved once the whole application ... application, which I barely remember anymore - occurred via a link in the blog comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010