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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me ... to say that I work for her, and despite her achievements, she's really

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "This Jesus Must Die" from Superstar really sounds a lot like "People Are Strange" by The Doors. Hurry up, I think you only ... 's ultimately better for society that they put a picture with me in it on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  . This year, for the first time, the party was preceded by a special ... pictured below; later, I caught up with Sam and Mitra enjoying the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Emeritus Charles Vest introduces Friedman. A big crowd shows up for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  i’m starting this entry at an airport at 5am. sometimes waking up way too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport, people watch, and reflect on how you should compensate for your

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  crisp autumn air for a lot of you. And,[annotation note = "It has ... -confirmed psychic, the tragic fate I had predicted for myself had unfortunately come ... blood oath I had taken to extort myself for the next five years towards an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my ... to a close for all you high school students out there. Maybe summer ... reaching out to friends was hard for me, that I’m inclined to fall back into

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  topics when Ben opens up the super new site. Sidenote: You, too, should go ... traditional advisor is also available for one-on-one meetings any time during ... . There's no one best advising choice for every incoming freshman. Freshman

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  idea to come up with for our app. I would just kind of throw spaghetti at ... For those who know me well, you'll know that I'm an absolute sucker for personality tests. I've done practically every personality test

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  when I said I went to Penn State for a year. Now there's a sudden ... The Center for World University Rankings, and the high school has been ... up here. Moving here from Chicago in 8th grade felt like settling into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  ’s not like a budgetary thing, but they can open up some avenues for our ... !   I’m the lead story artist for Coco. I’m from Chelmsford, so I grew up in Boston. It’s great to come back to Boston, especially a smart

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can my school counselor find helpful information?

  Thank you for all of the good work you do for our awesome applicants! We understand what a daunting task it is for school counselors to meet all of the different requirements for so many students and schools. We
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  we rowed out to the buoys, pulled up the traps I hadn't seen for weeks ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... for Undergraduate Research OPportunities. As my family demonstrates, it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  snip snip liberating the shoulder one free t-shirt at a time

  

  to mature. But no. It's gotten to the point where friends come up to me ... default to one of these shirts. Anyways, as I was unpacking my clothes for ... figured I'd give a mini tutorial for any interested at home.  

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... out of bed before noon. this february i’m up at 8 am every day of the ... ’t always just wait for spring to arrive.

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  academia phase – it’s a surprise I hadn’t picked this book up earlier. I ... time to read it. Turns out, I’m still the same person that grew up on ... love letter to New York? I was hooked. So hooked, even, that I waited for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  less about mit than it does about me. for the same reason, there's only ... matters to you won't always line up with what matters to others. if none of your reasons for choosing mit are your reasons, it might be better not to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  ??), try to follow a squirrel around for over 20 minutes Kidist ’22- hmm turn ... get there) Margaret ’23- Very honest list here: 1. Sit for a while by a ... /pastry 4. Cook something, see chemistry cook up in your pan/pot, watch how

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  out of practice with my Japanese for a while, the Japanese books get ... sit down and actually catch up on my Japanese and plow through these ... but everybody was so attractive. i cannot wait for the second season

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  come up with the perfect thing to write. Something that would garner ... time for our hero to venture out and slay that which had haunted him

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019