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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  that night, the lights in the building would be turned on to spell SOX ... of my day goes on to include a lavish, adjective-laden description of a ... was never the same; I hopped on a plane, went home to my 300-person

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to ... remember to check out your MyMIT account starting tomorrow morning for Campus

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  wrong with a photodump. Anyway, here's what I've been up to for some of ... A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which allowed us to take this impromptu little trip to the North End's motherland

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  valuable to us is their skin. Amphibians depend on their skin for everything ... , and I encourage you to Google and PubMed for updates (and please post what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  lot? That disappointment took us back to the 24-hour grocery store on ... out on dorm row. Passers-by don't seem to realize that their conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  our own research papers! I am currently working on mine, analyzing large ... ethical dilemmas. Bonus links to two of the earlier readings for the class ... using philosophy to address real-world issues; she has written for The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  free range to shoot thirty-five pellets however we wanted, for pretty ... meetings in the ready room, a room next to the shooting range itself. On the ... 'd be judged not on how close our shots are to the center, but on how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  classes on zoom, returning to high-pressure academia after a year of self ... . For me, these steps are to go running, [annotation note="like maybe ... ,[/annotation] consume vegetables, or go on long walks where I talk to myself about why I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  sticker is associated with in order for me to be able to put it on the ... It doesn't take long being on MIT's campus to notice all the laptop ... for hours if you let me. The "fly the W" sticker also relates to the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia. Nominally, the purpose of the trip is to be in Malaysia for a (Malay) friend ... 'm away, Ben will be posting for me a number of blog entries I've pre

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  projects to work on. No time to stop for breaths; sleep my only respite as I ... prefrosh, as so many hosts refer to theirs, arrived on Thursday morning. We ... what happens, the show must go on. You have to maintain composure and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  [/annotation] , and got to the office on the fourth floor of building 4 for the ... work on the robotics board.  The theme for this year is “Wicked FBD ... , though, is to retrieve the broomstick from the highest point on the map

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  , during which I applied pressure to the On button, and the Blog for MIT ... . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... theatres. I go for the IMAX experience, so to speak. 5:00 PM: French toast

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  beating 3/4 and 4/4 patterns along to music on my own for probably a decade ... deciding on a course of action, which is very useful for student government ... , or both; someone who's capable of speaking up for their team to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  me, I get fed dinner for free on field hockey road trips, which usually ... , saying, "Thanks for the info; although it may seem strange to care about ... things for granted. It's easy to buy pancake mix and then realize, "Oh wait

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all ... weeks, I went from programming a button to turn on a light, to designing ... circuit”. Feel free to skip this section, but click this block to read a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  even close). on one hand this makes it difficult for many students to ... constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... ’t intend this post as advice for younger students, but I do want to put out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  friend of mine ate nothing but bread and cereal for a week. I once ate ... room to forgive Thailand Cafe for their unspeakable red curry combo ... I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  free food, so I headed over to the event after I held office hours for a ... write a mere sentence for months on the blogs. This makes the 6-month ... have constantly been on a mission to better myself. By that, I mean

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... because he actually liked it, and years later, he would go on to pursue a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022