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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  the first rigorous exercise that I've done this whole summer. It was far ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... 's beautiful Zesiger Center (a.k.a. the Z Center) or by Memorial Drive. Of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  )” is one of the first songs I listened to, along with “Hysterical Us ... . Magdalena Bay was actually one of the first things Chris and I talked about. I ... me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  it up my first route and was feeling on top of the world (or this room ... /UPPER BODY STRENGTH!) I also don't have the greatest track record with climbing ... of rock climbing. So while the blip was more like a bloop, it was still

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  the first few hundred lines of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and a ... .284 Modern Astrophysics On the first day of class, Paul Schechter (the ... Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  dermatologist and dentist notes to skip whole days of school, even though the ... [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF ... Proposal. For the GRFP, you need to submit a 2-page research proposal of a ... some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the ... needs to be. For example, one problem describes the motion of a curveball

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  look into the first floor to contemplate some art. There is a lot of art ... for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of ... Line bus stop on the first floor. Just outside will be a neon sign

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  a really nice feeling – being on a first-name basis with some of the ... sending emails.  Sometime in between all this, we get the first news of the ... talk about what canceling our programs means. We spend the first half of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  , chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most ... and IB coursework as college level and the highest level of rigor in ... students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  ’s often easiest to just toss or cross out the whole page and move on instead ... the clothes they’re wearing, or the things they buy. Of course, this ... of shopping advice blog, with article titles like “Deals of the Week

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  .[/caption] One of my favorite feelings is when we’re out on the track testing. If ... post of his own about his time on the team, so now we’re bringing it full ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

    Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... , that last half of the sentence was difficult to type given that I ... the superposition of all the little solutions. It's not that hard to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  first half of the game, I felt constantly underleveled. Some grinding ... Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who ... to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  the little pine tree on the side of the road instead of the big huge ... of their host stars). The project is very ambitious for a 2 million ... allows you to petition out of many basic courses into the more advanced

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions today on MIT FB, and it reminds me of the time when I applied to MIT ... Pattie Maes of MIT Media Lab, talking about the most futuristic interfaces ... accepted to MIT Media Lab, the place that I was dreaming of in high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  our “daily walk” around the track, followed by a vigorous round of ... machines (or myself)! The course taught me that and more. The first couple classes were spent quickly going over how to use each of the machines and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  the midst of studying for the last exam, poring over pages and pages of ... software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... Mitra would secretly like to erase all evidence of her existence from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... little hazy on the distinction of what makes an engineering leader, so at ... little more important. I’m at the phase of my life where I’m deciding

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  lot if you would write the names of what's in these pictures down and casually glance at the first letters. You know, just in the spirit of things. : ) ... Sometimes you should stop to identify all of the different pictures

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009