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• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  compared to the Red Sox first World Series win since the Wilson ... readers: you'll learn to enjoy baseball and American football, really, but in the meantime feel free to use this post's comments section to talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  excited to hear this. Two years ago, Fred had also promised a “special surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon Rainforest over spring break. We got to perform in a bright pink opera house in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't know why I'd chosen to come to MIT, where everybody seemed to just talk ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... .[/annotation] I remember the first time the world made sense to me was during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work. i don't want to program, i don't want to solve problem sets. i only ... comes to actually writing c++ for our own implementation, it becomes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  back as my half blind Lolo would speed his way back to our house on the ... of my senior year of high school, I remember trying to figure out where I was going to apply. I knew that MIT was my dream school, no matter

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  . this is the starting hand size, subject to mulligans, and the maximum ... you must discard down to seven. six. i didn't do much this iap and that ... -thirds of the way into book 3 of a practical guide to evil. i went on lots of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass/no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics ... have a focus on writing and speaking, and we've got to take one each year

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics ... , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in ... deliberation on this issue. Scientists point out that we need to reduce gas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  to the Class of 2015 as well, with a post on the wall of the class ... 2010. I am going to repost it as I wrote it: raw, and unedited, and ... struggling into weird robes and wizard hats and getting ready to get in line to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  ? I wondered to myself. I don’t know. Doesn’t seem like it. Of course ... subway system, translating to a rife chance to get lost. And lost I was. It took a few extra minutes of talking to Madison on the phone, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... stressfully large percentage of student organizations decides to have The First Meeting Of The Year. I woke up at 8:30 to my alarm, turned it off, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below, where two summer interns were supposed to be observing the century's last ... ? When was it supposed to start?” “Half an hour ago,” said the other. They

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from reticent affection to soul-consuming infatuation. Apologies before I go any further: if you expected me to write about physics, or midterms, or having

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  write something about what I'm doing. =p This really has nothing to do ... surveys, debated in health discussions, helped the clinic to fundraise ... reform debate prior to this summer (and I'm still learning). Growing up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  (that is to say, pretty much incoherent but inexplicably awesome anyway ... day to mastering the subtle art of falling sleep randomly in public ... particularly stunning occasions come to mind: -As part of the Discover

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... disillusionment, even after you pack your suitcases to the acceptable airline limit and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... Books. On the semi-bright side, I had signed up for an overnight visit to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be ... . "For goodness' sakes! Are you going to come see me play tonight ... , he rubbed his sleepy eyes and began to stand up. "Where's your concert

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008