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• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  walkable. I don’t need the subway to get groceries, or go shopping, or even ... 'll load the car and drive back to Boston. I can't wait to get back to the ... “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  then get to fry all kinds of delicious foods in our two deep fryers. 19 ... . I even did my differential equations homework in close proximity to ... exciting. My advice to you— If you brought homework, don’t do it. Meet people

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  appliances. This poem is impossible to divorce from its color. I genuinely don’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke ... intellectual vivacity. I figured that I wanted to come out of high school an

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  , whether it’s having fun or talking to people or getting work done.  I’m not ... today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  Review and Manuscript Book Everybody at MIT gets a free subscription to ... computer program ever. GAMIT How to Get Around MIT, the one stop shop for ... ? Uncle John's Bathroom Reader This is where I get all of my random

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  a rare occurrence during this project. (I proceeded to get very hosed ... shorter, I made a concerted effort to try to get through all the flavors I ... In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  could get to Tangled without breaking copyright laws. Image also features ... Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 people from MIT and Brown University to walk the Walk again. I was super ... came down to crash at Brown. The students at Brown found us all nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  getting it to coat evenly, add a little more barbecue sauce to thicken (but ... scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass through the Kresge BBQ pits on my way to Burton Connor. Grab a hamburger to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  floor, but there's no way to get from one to the other without going down ... upperclassmen and get to know each of the very different living groups before ... checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  't going to let me get away so easily. She dragged me to the information ... poorer residents from the north side. Those guys sometimes get kind of tired of getting looked down on, so they turn further north and deride the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to introduce yourselves in the comments below to your future friends. And

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  While we can't recommend specific classes, you may want to compare the courses offered at your institution to MIT's by referring to the MIT ... what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  -day experience for rising seniors to learn what it is like to be an MIT student. The program is completely free, including the cost of transportation to ... /or underserved backgrounds to apply, as well as students who come from low
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  We're often asked to recommend specific classes for high school students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required classes but consider an ideal preparation to include calculus, physics
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what he wants. Take these to their logical conclusion and you get Demon, at ... to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  . I got to meet astronauts, hear Elon Musk speak live, and get expert ... fortunately well-positioned to get a picture. That's Michael Collins ... I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding ... section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  garment bag around to medical school interviews. (I actually got that bag on ... that bag now, having carried it with me to so many places this past ... much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  door opens up to the hallway connecting my floor’s lounge to the back of the building, making it visible from the third-floor portal to the 282 ... was old and cracked and had handprints suspiciously close to the ceiling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012