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• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of Covington, as well as In the Heat of the Night, certain scenes of Remember the Titans, and countless other things you haven't seen. At the risk of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... , from TV shows and video games to social media and the concept of spam

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join a fraternity/sorority?

  principles of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship, the FSILG Office ... MIT community. The purpose of the FSILG Office is to enhance the out-of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... just took The Biggest Exam of My Life Part 2 of 4 (9 hours long!), and ... of the above) Q2. We know you lead a busy life, full of activities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  Summertime, and the livin' is easy... and there are tons of awesome ... premieres of The 4400 and Hell's Kitchen, both of which we watched religiously ... tag was labeled with the same number). At the end of the week, my mom

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... if you just want the gist of it, it's because MIT is awesome. And because of the MISTI program, also awesome. Hokay, so I took 550 pictures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of ... true that I had already seen it; for some reason it was the museum of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

  going to wellesley a lot (for toons rehearsals and for the open fields and for the quietness of not-city sounds). i've been spending a lot of time ...         i've been spending a lot of time

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an ... while listening to Kelis under a sign labeled "THE YARD". I have all of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... $800 and it was as good as the MIT IS&T recommended computers but ... at the beginning of July. They gave me an estimated repair time of two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  here. First-years, keep up the good work! Your enthusiasm in spite of ... -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... 've ever been to a physical therapist, you know the kind of discomfort I mean: the breaking apart of old adhesions that hurts even as it gives you the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the ... people walked out of the front doors that night as he approached the building, holding nylon bags that sagged under the pressure of salad plates

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy ... information can be found on the UROP Guidelines website. For a list of ... held by the Library of Congress, (b) explore issues of copyright

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  good idea. You know, one of these things: What I forgot was that the ... ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The ... out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  original piece of work recognized by experts in the field as significant and ... . The scholarship must be used at an accredited institute of learning. For ... lead to the advancement of quantum computing, which could aid scientists

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  't spend too much time in any one place. This one's a broader version of the ... . MITERS has spawned a number of cool things, the most famous of which I ... parties start up. It's in the butt-end of the MIT Museum building, kind-of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  with the list of "deal breaker" variables. Who was I and what was ... , academic programs, extracurricular options, diversity of the student body ... admitted to all of the colleges on my list. I was also really lucky in that

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how ... ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... the sense of different materials—I most often used one that was hard and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don ... much of a continuation of the fall as possible, or you can do nothing ... fully realized how dominated the city is by MIT until a large fraction of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023