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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  courses. Last year, at the undergraduate level, 36% of engineering majors and 51% of science majors at MIT were women (as were 51% of humanities ... I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... spread. Look at that flick of the wrist. The power is indescribable ... very quickly become a tool of self mutilation. The ease at which you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  down and hit up an onsen (hot springs) at the base of the mountain. It ... the 7th station I used my expertly honed-at-MIT abilities of being able ... fear of heights, and I knew at that point I had to keep going.) Lucky

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  has been one of my most treasured experiences at MIT thus far, and I am ... translate to a variety of actual careers. I'd tried my hand at menial labor on ... down to write this blog.  UROP, one of MIT’s umpteen acronyms, stands

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  about the club and fashion at MIT. Looking through past issues of the ... ideas about developing community at Infinite.  Structure of board [Masha ... and in my [annotation note="of my beauty and, at times, self

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  this pandemic and the workload MIT has thrown at us, that none of us have ... 'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  deficiency since at MIT"] darkness of the fall[/annotation], and Warmness with ... [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that ... By Fatima '25, one of my roommates!   i have been away from

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  hometown of Portland, OR. To be honest, my first year at MIT, the heavy New ... courtesy of @jovilly_ on Twitter[/caption] [caption id="attachment_58337" align="alignnone" width="1152"] courtesy of CP_OD on Twitter

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different ... things done the *right* way. 4 - a lot of things *happen* at MIT. they ... i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  this! At least she won't until it's up. So, hi Ceri!! I'm proud of you ... Longtime readers (i.e., those of you who didn't first tune into the ... went in front of the camera to nerd-fight SciShow creator Hank Green

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest ... ; This, however, does mean a few things: (1) I've dropped out of MIT for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church ... cappella is big at MIT - we've got the Logarhythms, Chorallaries, Toons

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  . Apparently, a local radio station was holding an end-of-summer concert at the ... Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance ... good time. Walking along the river at sunset was definitely an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  previously learned that the east side of campus has an unusually high percentage of people who dye their hair weird colors.  It may come to you as no surprise that I plan on spending most of rush hanging out at Random, with a

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  you a byte (or a few) from my bottomless cache of labyrinthine analogies ... . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and talent are the real players at work. To borrow Barney Stinson's catchphrase

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  doing any of those things once I got here. At the same time, it seemed ... Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... ! Images not for the faint-hearted. Spiraling out of control. - Now is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  San Francisco, je t’aime nothing to do with mit :3 (...intern in cali! )

  

  AMAZING summer. I worked at an Asian health clinic serving primarily ... about medical care for the underserved. As one of my projects for this ... and Korean) Also, aside from working, I also had plenty of time (9

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update We plan to release Early Action decisions on Monday, 12/15.

  

  We plan to post Early Action admissions decisions online at 9pm EST ... copy of that email here. We'll have more details on the decisions in the ... year. This is an increase of roughly 1,000 applications over last year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  their ECs while they are at MIT and continue in the role of teacher when ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008