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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should ... me (benjones at you-know-the-rest) by August 31st, 2007 and: Provide a ... be the single most important part of your application. Most of our

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  ," ... At the end of the meal, the waitress asks us, "What is your gift to ... surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... transport stops at the Bedford VA, so if I miss the right 62, it’s an hour ... , so, at first, I felt like a trespasser wandering through the Medical

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  day of classes at MIT! What happened? And why are you dropping physics ... exciting is getting an email from the head of the physics department about ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  "domestic side" of public health. On the side, I'll be living at Berkeley and ... grade is comprised of 4 exams. I've been getting A-'s in the exams in that class, but for some really dumb reason, I lost a bunch of points on this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  not all of us were as adept at hopscotching as the mini-humans. While I ... sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of ... this[/caption] I ordered a 64 pack of chalk, which would definitely be

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  the rumors and the misconceptions, to unwind and have buckets of fun at ... Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun-sized bag of M&Ms. Sunday is waffles. Monday is Insomnia cookies. Tuesday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  of them on harmonica. We met at about 10:00pm to practice, which ended ... Linux on a potato. But last night in Next House, a very different kind of heraldry was underway. This story begins on November 24, when a group of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  you have to live at East Campus in order to find it :-). Each of the ten ... reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  until the concert opened doors at 7pm.   5 Seconds of Summer - June ... One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer ... LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of ... rivers will carry me there, and I’m sort of stalled at the confluence of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  Image courtesy of greggavedon.com   The following is a guest ... intimidating, so I have put together a complete guide of all groceries near MIT ... step, I always end up squishing all of the bananas, and it’s very sad

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  latest happenings at school and mine about the novelty of the US, and video ... ?  All of this plays into my friendship experience at MIT as follows~ I ... In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  opportunities at MIT and there is knowing that the social and taking care of ... you’re too absorbed with work at MIT, you kind of get into the MIT ... ’t always happen. But, now it’s at the top of my priority list.” -Coyin Oh

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  lot of optimism. I have a lot of optimism.In my first attempt at ... at estimating what I spend. It also goes to show that I had no idea of ... that I can help them. If I'm bottoming out at the end of every month

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  seven and the kids at school pull up the outer corners of their eyes, call ... China—the constant buzz of Beijing streets, the proper way to haggle at ... Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline ... into January. Do not send a second copy of any document at this time ... those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  beginning of fall again, and i got home, at half past ten in the evening, and ... common was the mention of ash. there was a lot of ash, which the wind blew ... far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  ,000 people living at the camp on their campus, or about 4,000 families of ... Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010