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• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  found it to be a good review, with the added benefit of formalizing ... that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... talking about the most fundamental aspect of college: classes. So I thought

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do ... of the day except approximately 6-8 AM. The upside at MIT is that, due ... dedicated to serving the God of Sleep. Moreover, the entire month of January

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the sacrificial table by Deirdre '08, handmaiden of Krotus. Yelena '06 was the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  , as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the ... perplexingly, the tip of the slice always flops down and [annotation note="This was exactly what happened the first time I had a slice of A4 pizza three

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the ... many filler words—I think like 5% of what I said was just the word “like ... , or taking videos of myself, or talking to a camera, or finding good

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  ’re smaller quests you can complete alongside the main quest (which is, of ... ridiculous amount of sidequests, so I’m going to list the ten that I definitely ... . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we ... someone about them. The brothers of any fraternity who gave you a bid want ... I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  that when I stepped out of the Milan airport, I was in an incredibly good ... group of students to bike across the country, from DC to San Francisco ... – some of the routes promised clear signage and well-maintained roads. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  . And I love the creative process of writing, which has been part of my ... . Not Frankenstein. Big difference. Just saying.) composed of the various ... stem from the MIT Class of 2019 Facebook page oddly enough. It was there

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in ... of things that refill my will to live, both with 4 songs. The longest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking ... local contemporary art museum. I love the serenity of art museums, in which only the (figurative) voices of the artwork and the occasional

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  little bit more about my UROP, but also show you a small sampling of the ... cutthroat game of Settlers of Catan by one point, and only because the other ... . Bought some of my course books for next semester from the Coop. (Yes, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... the fudge, the fat young man ahead of us in line noted that it was ... fudge without a knife. Indeed, the power is ours! Of course, if my UROP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  those of you who just skipped the beginnings of a rant above, here's a ... -PART LIST OF EXCEPTIONS TO THE RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLIFIED SCHEDULE ABOVE (Numbers ... of 18.01 in the first six weeks of fall term and covers 18.02 straight

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  longer lists of the books I want to read and the places I want to go, and ... personal though sometimes hints of my life find their way in. And if the past year has shown me anything, it is that I have changed. The idea of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... of the ideas from this post: what if i don’t want to feel better? what ... it's kind of scary, really, because wow, maybe this is the version of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  along the lines of “Oh, economists don’t really study that, we study…” or ... have of the quality of the work done under his or her direction. Even though we all understand that receiving a paper does not mean that the work

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually ... pin that one of the MIT Flying Club members was wearing... "Whoa, they ... the Cessnas I was used to. A stick instead of a yoke, and my steering

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022