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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the Bio ... up in 2003 and is home to about 700 scientists. Ever seen those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because ... promise that we don't require new members to have prior cheerleading ... through our cheers a few times and warming up stunts, we went to the Z

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  Well now, this is a good way to start a blog entry. Megan '08, nine people I don't really know and I went down to Carson Beach today and then ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... truly matters to you, no matter how nontraditional it may seem + take

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My name is Mollie Burgoon. I live in Pickerington, Ohio. I go to Peace U

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  They say, "You snooze, you lose" -- Kevin and Daniel beat me to two ... night, I took a Zipcar up to a college fair in New Hampshire. I'd say the ... undergraduates go on to grauate school to earn a Master of Architecture (MArch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip ... the warmth still feels like a tiny miracle. Campus is starting to ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... everything around me. My water bottles have been akin to that, but instead

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is ... flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to ... -o-clock hour encroaches. sewing shirts Est. time: 1 hour each Shoutout to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  's where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with ... forth towards making, well, making as accessible to the MIT community as possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  bloggers to introduce! Staff and senior bloggers read our way through sixty ... bloggers. And I am so excited for you to get to read their work! [image ... give a warm welcome to: Andi Q. '25 of South Africa, connoisseur of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  This summer, living alone has given me the immense freedom to do ... sitting around a table, roleplaying to a significant extent, and rolling a bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to ... translates to used cars — some are cheap enough that doubling the price wouldn ... allows faster cyclists to pass. Every major stoplight has a smaller set

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  growth. Blogging was hard — it was challenging to figure out how to start ... with writer’s block, so I called my parents today and asked them to share ... hope to eventually transform many of these into their own blog posts: 1

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about ... concepts I learned. The things I made. I just haven't. Instead, I want to use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  from Los Angeles to Tucson when I was three"]once.[/annotation] I was ... printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... be accessed by walking through my room. For all that, I didn’t want to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push it up again toward the summit. He goes back down to the plain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I originally wanted to do during IAP: A micro-internship at a civil

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner ... Tube until eventually moving on to another project. Months went by until one

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  update y'all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the ... up my pride and start going to office hours/getting help :^) Isn't that funny? Sometimes when you need help the best thing to do is ask for help

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019