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• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  had to get it done during IAP. Maybe in just one night. I went in to ... for hours. The heat gets to you slowly. Blisters blossom all over your ... is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... get off campus for awhile. I'm even more confident to not continue on ... or three miles away. I was going to get there first, or die trying. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  've gone, but gods it is so hard to get out of my room. i didn't get ... about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work. i don't want to program, i don't want to solve problem sets. i only

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at ... tied to techniques used for its formation. From the discovery of core ... blow pipe during Roman times, to the modern industrial Pilkington process

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... also simply awesome beyond all reason (koodos to Cross Products, muy ... attempt to personify a big, philosophical theme into a “smell”

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  classroom. I will probably never get anywhere close to Joshua Bell's fancy ... the great fortune to be an MIT Arts Scholar I attended four EXCELLENT ... watch MIT students perform, I get very emotional (or maybe it was the knee

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  't belong here. The last thing you need is to get into a relationship and go ... dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... to upperclassmen as a warning not to mack on the frosh, Newton's Third

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East ... . When you get hungry, head to the Quincy Market (largest food hall in New ... food or a milkshake at nearby Quincy Market, and get super close to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  accurate depictions of how things really were. How wonderful was it to get to meet George Takei? Did you get to hang out with him more than was shown in episode 2? It was AWESOME to meet George Takei. We did get to talk

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... basically I'm getting paid to travel around Europe and interview MIT interns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  then planning to get a PhD. Or is it that your going directly from a ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... week, champion skiier by weekend, that's my Adam. Events about which to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  getting accepted for publication. On print, it came out to about ... , mutated, rising from the shadows, when you begin to get doubts, and when you ... particularly grand style, but I do plan to give some of my friends heart

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... couldn’t meet her, or get her to sign the two books that I brought along, or even get to sit inside of the lecture hall. There was also an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i ... with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus, or move off campus. moving off campus didn't appeal to me since i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  week, this is usually two hours or so, to make sure that I can get back ... from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem ... -internship was only 25 hours a week, I found myself with a bunch of extra time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  welcomed people to the "new" MITAdmissions.org, the one you would have seen ... . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... , and so we decided to share the same design agency (which ended up being

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  gets, I can always go home on breaks to an amazing meal cooked by my mom ... Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  get access to course materials without the commitment of taking the ... cover P/NR, the GIRs, MIT's grading system, and how to get into the best ... factors to consider: staying on track with HASS classes, completing major

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... synthetic chemistry. At each campus, 24 to 36 rising high school seniors collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025