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• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  just gotten to campus and was enjoying getting swept up in the excitement ... were given a room in Maseeh as an option, in addition to Saxon Court, a ... , expressed their interest in moving to BC, and talked to us for quite a bit of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  summer, where she gets to "work from home" one day a week and sit in her ... getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... can see exactly what our soldiers actually get to eat out in the desert

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... to them in a measured, respectful way, without drawing weird and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  nerd out hard core, so feel free to go back to homepage and click on a ... number of resources needed to take care of them. The idea behind google ... screenshot of course notes: This relates the NYC subway line to a concept

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... exams in order to get a grade I could achieve with a nontrivial amount of ... , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  cheaper for me to go to MIT than to go to a public tech school in a state ... bouncing around my head for about a week nonetheless.   In the summer ... coordinator (basically a guidance counselor) to review my college application

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  children? If not (or if you are a male), do you expect your spouse to take ... across a front page article titled, "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  Pecker, but if you're willing to lump a bioengineering, bioengineering ... multimeter in my backpack. Why wouldn't you have a multimeter in your backpack ... flavor of nerdiness.  If you choose to climb up all three and a half

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  finish a few pages for Friday, along with studying a bit for my (last ... desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of ... the GIRs your first year. If it suits you, it's certainly beneficial to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... (shocker, I know). This IAP, I'm getting back to reading in two ways: trying to read a little bit in the mornings after I wake up, and reading over

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it ... you can also use CopyTech to get papers bound such as for making a ... . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to ... love MIT, you may not want MIT to be where your friends are, jumping in ... himself over to your house and would let himself in and begin eating your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  about being in a country where nobody has electricity or regular access to ... It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in Haiti, but I'll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Where can I find parent info?

  We understand that helping your child find the right college is a daunting task and that many things have to be considered. We have information and advice that we hope you find helpful on our For parents page.  
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  have already sent in a form detailing how much of that you plan to earn ... sending water + people goo down a water slide at high speed), you get ... chlorine in the water might have something to do with it. Now, I know Mollie

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  Trafalgar in 1805, and to preserve his body, the crew put his body into a ... was a big wave of shanty revival in the mid-to-late 1900s, largely ... improvisation and getting our singing tone to match a sailors, and learned a ton

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... to start fresh in a new dorm room, decked out with a couple personal ... Giants song Birdhouse in your Soul. They’re awesome. A blank deck of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  Autobiography), or giving several presentations to a classroom full of your peers ... pointed at a post on Piazza (a website where students and professors get to ... in the morning. I sent her a link to our slide for tomorrow

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  ="84400" /] Out of a mild fear of getting lost or left behind, I attached myself to an old lady who was also getting up to stretch her legs; we had a ... way to a backwards-facing seat at a table, allowing me to get better

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  only so much time in a day to do everything, so why do you deserve their ... another point: in getting to know others, it's not only about making that ... be famous? In what way?” to “Of all the people in your family, whose

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018