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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... the introduction to E.L. Doctorow's novel City of God. I quote it for ... substantive happenstance, to an extent that the word explosion is inadequate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , but I wanted to compare the two experiences, with the caveat that I ... fellowship. In particular, we have the 6-A program, which allows you to intern ... financially feasible for students to pursue the degree. Social life is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  . Meanwhile, I'm putting together more traps to deploy. It's easier the second ... metal converter to a machine that ran on 10,000 volts. Would the converter ... “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  I register online and the second step of the registration tells me to ... can use on the test. At around midnight, I realize I need to somehow ... suit jacket, so I grab a decently-fancy sweater to go on top of the dress

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and ... received an email letting us know that the event would be to announce MIT ... ? Where would they be coming from? What would be their approach to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... is so worth it to take a few extra seconds and truly understand what ... chilling in a tube on its own. 5. Have an idea? Share it. One of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  , a house, a job that I love, food on the table, and the means to follow ... city (250,000+ college students can have that effect on a place), the ... anything from the 80's Favorite books: Frog & Toad, Bridge to Terabithia

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  plan to take the class again next semester. And I plan on CRUSHING it ... . About how I can't put other things to the side to focus on my academics ... arrow goes from the nucleophile to the electrophile. Enantiomers can't be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture of the beautiful skyline and fall-colored trees, I think back to my ... out the door. I wanted to witness the magnificence of a Cambridge

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  to the following e-mail on the MITblog list, from one of its younger ... to still be writing the essay at noon on the day it's due (which, I ... reason. Don't skip all your 2.007 labs to go tanning on the esplanade, but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the ... entire world.  They tried to name all the cities in the US. I wasn’t there ... around 2:30 am, after a game of trying to name all the sports teams in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  picked this class on the basis of "I have no idea what this is going to ... shudder every time I look back on [annotation note="Intro to Probability"]6 ... "smarter", I've just become used to working on assignments for longer periods

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  sitting down to write and constantly was on the verge of tears and anger ... been a sore topic for me to grapple with. Because on the one hand, I'm always in pain, but on the other, I try not to show it. This causes an

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  20 euro per night price tag. The second thing we did in Nice was go to ... is severed mannequin parts. On the first floor of the museum, we found ... eventually made our way to the top of the museum... ...the view from which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  impossible to put a finger on. I first hit something during the fall of my ... torrential firehose of life on campus, when do people have the chance to sit ... reference to the food from childhood films our team largely grew up on, from

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  'm going to let you in on one of the not-so-pretty secrets about MIT: it ... job at the time. During primary school, I remember wanting to be a ... the time were really cool. I also wanted to be a novelist. One year the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  working on; I tried to say that stress was taking the best of me, but even ... second. "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!" I thought. The rain was beating on our ... Earlier this month, I asked for your reflections on the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  ;Kicking Ass Serious Butt on the TI-83+L A Guide to Lists": turns out ... has since upgraded...to the basement of Walker Memorial. Students and ... working out content for the show week-to-week, but I can now tell you more

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  conference. I had neighbors on the same floor. 419 to my 421. And quickly we ... movie to see and finally went to the Cinema on Temple Street. Sunday was ... went to see this and stayed a while, but I passed on the opportunity

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  anymore. And so you do the two things you can do: listen to the playlist on ... 's been exactly two years since I pressed the submit button on my MIT ... ago.  I have other things on my mind. The thermodynamics midterm next

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018