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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like ... of major in the comments. If you offer to bring me cookies at CPW, I ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  hurtled around a corner and there, a couple of meters ahead, a snake at ... a fit of desperation to do ANYTHING other than look at another ... Shenandoah National Park houses 200,000 acres of forests, rocky

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  As of exactly one year ago, toys have completely taken over my life ... future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world headquarters. For those of you who don't know, Hasbro makes Mr. Potato Head

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  'd flip if he knew I barely ate any fruit at school. That train of thought ... words of one of my friends, ‘reshuffle my cards’. I feel spoilt- the company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  survive socially and academically at a school of geniuses? When I was ... MIT! For many of you applying EA, the deadline is fast approaching! I ... week away (*cough* *cough*). And I waited! Then, the week of the deadline

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you ... ’ve graduated, guys… Elizabeth, Course 20 class of 2013, lived in Simmons Hall

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am ... top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  .   The whole thing took place at the Museum of Science, where we ...   It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... rounds). If they lost this match, they would be out of the tournament and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  cheerleader, was pulling some of her belongings out of the closet at the time ... sort of insufferable if I had continued the same activities at which I ... Biology if I could handle it. At the beginning of sophomore year, I realized

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  percentage of students had picked another dorm at the end of Rush (or "REX", as ... summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... got one of their top three choices). When you arrive on campus, a period

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  1940s after a high volume of drowning-related deaths at war. It’s been ... yoga for the majority of their credits."]quarter[/annotation], and at the ... continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... .  Either way, that's a savings of at least $70 per week, or $1050 per ... done a lot of experimenting). 2. Take your steak out of the fridge at

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  So, by a show of hands, how many of you are stressing about college ... that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called ... a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  touch with.  In fact, just last week a bunch of us got together at my dorm ... continuous nucleation of pharmeceutical ingredients on polymer surfaces at the ... and be inspired to apply and hopefully come to MIT! FPOP At the end of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  programming, here’s a year in review of what STARS Ambassadors at MIT have been ... events page (linked at the bottom of this post) for when the fly ... coordinator!) after an evening of Just Dance at our event for admitted rural

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Action deadline of November 1! I'd like to use this entry to answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms of IAP abroad programs. I thought it might be useful to write a quick ... !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything which I’ve read at least ... some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me. But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... the same professor throughout my time at MIT -- [annotation note ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025