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• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two-year academic support program run by the Office of Minority Education with a seven ... while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  two years ago i watched the midnight gospel, a tv show where the dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of ... a little over two semesters left in this school, I wonder what impact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  , aka a January term but ~quirky~). For me, my senior IAP was an ... . And both times, it was wonderful. Two (very long) years apart, after a ... semester. Made art: over the summer, my internship held a poster

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  -the-game was a series of 5 games played over 5 weeks. The first-place winners of ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... ,[/annotation] winning a modest but appreciated $15! In my opinion, winning required more

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  semester, there was not so much time for feelings. I carved out a few hours ... came up with is like this: if you have a phone with a bunch of apps ... , over, say, four months, then you have a lot of updates to do. And if you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  . But actually, to our surprise, having a “plan” and a “major” and a ... animation classes. BUT *excited inhale to prepare for a long run-on sentence ... want to cross-register and begin the process just a few days before

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a ... 're going to become a Pokemon trainer -- you'll be catching them on your iPhone. Oh yeah -- that's right, the iPhone just came out a few months ago for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic personalities of the felines on Fifth West of East Campus.    Puru is a ragdoll ... a sack of jelly and push him around or pick him up or throw him or do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician from my class, who is a double biological engineering (20) and music (21M ... has music been a passion for you? Tell us about your musical journey

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  a generally useless, chronological order. When you ask for a map ... 've got a very lost American kid somewhere west of Central Tokyo. It ... train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  's different, but there are a few key reasons that most affect me. 1) Campus == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn ... all of a sudden constantly having company and friends to help with stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a little background. Actually, there's quite a bit of background. Back In The

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  . Yeah, that was a few days ago. I was distracted by the front desk and its ... . I'll be watching, just to give the show a good kick in the pants on ... upon a time, Veronica was basically the most awesome person EVER. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and ... together :p) they'll choose one for you should you get something other than a ... in other dorms are "crowded" into triples. This is generally not a good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed myself, I worked, I went to school. There was one day, that November, a little less than a month into living alone, that I woke up at five in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how ... more generous. And knowing gives me a lifestyle to work towards, one full ... given a monthly allowance from my parents that was plenty for groceries

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... what’s next. It’s literally “a” and “new”. A new… what? You may be ... state other than “violently joyful?” Like, I feel I could explode into a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  [/caption] Then my Mondays are spent relaxing a bit or catching up with 18 ... .02. I thought this would be okay because a) they're both on P/NR for me ... helpful Q&A sessions at the time that class would normally occur

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020