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• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but ... and relaxing music. We picked out our studs for the next eight weeks and ... up. “Is this going to hurt?” I said. “No,” he said, “it’s a marker.” He

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  designer, and I ended up being in the cast myself, so I couldn’t resist ... I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a whim, not knowing what to expect. We ended up throwing together a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning ... my face, packed up my things and stepped outside in a t-shirt and my ... given up at 11, or 1 or 2, with these daytime thoughts long gone from my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  ... ------------------------------------- ola wrote, "I was wondering whether the 'creation' for the optional ... design for a spring musical along with a designer's statement? Or should I ... our faculty have specificallly asked for hard copy submissions, and not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to remember how I was feeling last year when the deadline was coming up…and then ... started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  before going to sleep; I'm also planning to sign up for a reading-based IAP ... up in science. They tell me that they're equally surprised I attend a ... importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  people showed up for this political statistician than for a movie star a ... , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... for Nate Silver; it was a public victory for scientific rationalism in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost ... 'd be set for the rest of my life. The day before I left, we picked blackberries with my grandpa and built a tipi of sticks just the size for a four

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural ... roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk-up ... pathos for the metaphoric childhood of a scientific field. Yet, as soon as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  birds called zebra finches, which are known for their ability to sing ... , mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the summer in order to stay on campus. However, the opportunity arose for me to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Maina asked:: I sat for SAT 1 and I messed up in one section in Critical ... freshman year, the freshman class council will email the class, asking for ... that in a country like Pakistan there isn't much opportunities for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  AGAIN FOR THIS UPCOMING SATURDAY WITH SOME MORE ... we did! The four of us mentally claimed our tickets for Waitress ... some authority told everyone in line that there was no point to wait for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  cool post he put up on Medium and asked if I could reformat it and post ... many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their introductory courses. Robert lives in Maseeh Hall, was born in Goma and grew up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... some point, and January is just too dark and depressing for me not to ... a UROP for [annotation note="Independent Activities Period - the month

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for a week. Putz and Tetazoo have quite the relationship, one that ... for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... irradiate my food for >2 minutes (only to get lukecold results) in our more

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  anyway and asked customers to come up to the kitchen and work for their ... -mart, central. there are many choices for ramen here. unfortunately, going with a ... 's not terrible, and it's ten dollars, which is cheap for ramen here. but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  long overdue for an update. So, I really believe it is up to the younger ... biology and if it weren’t for 7.01x being a GIR (a required class at MIT ... how can I make a therapy, how can I use this protein as a marker for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... , in the midst of dispossessing my own kidney and grapethirsting for ripe ... character-building stories are for bloggers who secretly want to be Charles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  character – for example, if this applicant were to show up wearing a jacket ... just wondering. for the interview...is that too unprofessional? the nose ... nose ring. (Or, for my friend Alvar '98 PhD '05, a lot more than just a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and ... story which could be improved. Finally, the author came up with a few ... workshops where it felt difficult to address flaws directly, for fear of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023