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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... cultures. You see, I have this theory that for MIT dorms, function follows ... diversity, how is it that geography ended up such a predictor of "normal" vs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  while I was growing up. All I remember is a guy in a paisley suit dancing ... ?" and the song goes on like this for like 23 minutes, because there was a ... splashing for a while and the harp plays festive arpeggios that lead us into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  i could end up in—so what? why should i care? i'll never know for ... a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid ... sunday. i didn't do anything else, other than staff office hours for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  want to teach! Perfect. I love that the classroom fills up. 40 kids, for ... I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a ... Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  up for this session - which, while small, was still twice what had ... contagious. Afterwards we broke up onto the bleachers and answer questions for ... Immediately after the new site went live I left for group travel with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  -straight-on-the-subway-with-two-strangers-beside-you," the "let's-take-a-nap-while-waiting-for-the-train-to-arrive-and-wake-up ... I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed ... published online for you to look at, so I'm not going to bother publishing a ... Solving Puzzles for Mystery Hunt were continuously uploaded to the internet

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  school break thoughts

  

  . For now, I pick up whatever is closest to me or what I want to do, but I ... I wake up with a jolt. In middle school, I used to have a recurring ... ’d wake up tired and disoriented, briefly unable to discern dreams from

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 21, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  friends for each trip. I also ended up getting a ton of photos ... of disappointing. Since Kylee and Oris were still up for more walking ... Riverway and the Back Bay Fens, near the Fenway[annotation note="T stands for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  . Smelling good can make up for a lot of shortcomings, as shallow as this ... five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... previews for movies that are coming out soon. Two of these movies probably

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  . Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at ... , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I ... I wore my tennis shoes and a baseball hat for the trip. We hopped on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  would be good. Do these sound good to you? Come up with solutions for ... Directory Introduction Is product management right for me? The ... intern. Their Explore program is a 12 week internship broken up into two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  MIT account (go sign up for a myMIT account right now) including a very ... label for it. This label helps sort our entries into the different ... 'd been getting a lot of questions lately. Lo and behold, while looking for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... all of my reading for my supercool HASS class (American Classics). In

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as ... think of is when we dressed up for a dinner we cooked ourselves to make it ... I was horribly wrong. I’d signed up to audition for the Syncopasians

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  creds to Allison for the post title <3  welcome to today ... gotta support me for the plot or something. also who knows maybe spiders ... could tentatively make, and ended up with 5 people who actually met up at

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  , most of the tools would end up damaging the scarves in some way. For ... of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... tools for characterizing materials. What if I just used one of those tools

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  /lab-based 3.032 (Mechanical Behavior of Materials). For some courses, the platform is the main source of learning. For others, it allows a blend of ... for online problems Charts and diagrams to connect class topics and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to ... .  Look, there's a reason I'm writing for MIT Admissions and not Vogue

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015