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• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... super desert-y. You do need a car to get around, but some areas are ... Books by working on MacBooks. I loved the (almost) annoying extent to which

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  profits to charity, posting thoughtful weekly vlogs — the list goes on. I ... critically and broadened my perspective on the world. I look forward to ... reminded me how beautiful it is to be human. Amidst all his projects, Hank

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  , and I encourage you to Google and PubMed for updates (and please post ... valuable to us is their skin. Amphibians depend on their skin for everything ... amphibians on the island. Another option is to fight fungus with bacteria. Some

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• 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.

  

  pain). I think about how everyone on the stage is an extremely ... sobbing from the audience and think "oh, COME ON, Mom! Get it together!" PS ... , I had infinite questions, most of them personal; I like to know how

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

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  things, and always want to get working on a project with ease, he decided ... they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make ... expecting to get in. Other places he applied to include Caltech, which turned

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  whole mess getting ready to be sad. It's like, you know when you're going ... others, they lay with me. What matters to me, then? I was stuck on this ... if I have other good reasons to work on them. It means that if I run

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  Lobby 7 on my way to take the 3.091 (Solid State Chem) midterm. Quick ... a few minutes to spare (on MIT time). T-6 mins before exam begins. 11:02: T-2 mins… Time to get calculator, pencil, eraser, periodic table

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  Updates & Notes form. You'll use the FUN form to tell us your midyear ... to your application. You may not rewrite your essays, redo your ... because we want to reconsider your application (the one you have already

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  has nothing to do with the above. I have been spending too much time on ... , unless you want to take 7.014 because you're a huge fan of ecology and ... 's best for you. I know you're all getting a ton of stuff thrown at you now

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  so hard to remember that "you do not have to walk on your knees for a ... an email on my radar as something to send, and then forget about it for ... chance to start reading again, and to reflect on the semester which had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  ’m finally getting around to writing mine, and as you may be able to tell, one ... ’m enjoying it so far, and I have to admit that it is a good feeling when your ... , and we will continue looking at how to analyze projects from financial

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to ... savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is ... ; they're basically grad students at MIT who serve as your floor or hall

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  ) - so I didn't get a chance to practice before then. Disaster. My first act was to place the flugelhorn on a stand that Matt lent me, which ... instruments, I dropped the trumpet on my lap, swung the flugelhorn to my lips

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  majestic it's hard not to let your breath get taken away. (Or maybe that ... somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just ... that I needed to get around 80% on the remaining three psets to pass. For ... a 33% on the last miterm to pass, AND GUESS WHO DIDN’T GET A 33

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  've heard!) consider themselves to be on a premedical track. Many of them are ... classes at the beginning. How many credits are appropriate not to drop out a ... ); you're pretty much expected to take at least 32 units per semester (2

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... probably related to the fact that we need to be "on" all day/night during ... . Arthur gets to travel a lot for work, including a recent trip to Nigeria

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... to proofread and double-check your spelling - and don't just rely on ... applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  there for anyone to listen to. I know I have Ben's band on my iPod. =P ... political parties are too busy hating each other to get it right more than ... who felt disenfranchised by their government were able to turn on a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... . So even on days when I’m stuck at home, going to office hours after ... to get a coffee and read a book in front of the Winter Palace. I don

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020