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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  is real: part of me just wishes I was outside hanging out with others ... The bridge of one of my favorite songs goes: Malingap, buwis ... prefer to think of MIT as malingap, buwis-buhay, parang slow-mo, makulay

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I flew thousands of miles across our wonderful country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... Engineering, so his project involves a bunch of super secret space stuff

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  New Year Resolutions in Fall An ambitious list of things I wanna do that probably won't get done

  

  University  Walk everywhere for a week instead of biking or using public ... pretend it’s December 31st and start making a list of things I want to accomplish by the end of the school year knowing that 90% of the items on this

  • by Richard O. '28
  • August 31, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  attending either ETH or the University of Zurich, from undergrads to Ph ... Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months ... first weekend of August. In the meantime, I've somehow taken over 138 GB

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  world news headlines include: *Chunk of Universe's Missing Matter Found ... It's that time of the year again -- MIT's Undergraduate Research ... research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there ... the early universe with Jorian whose level-headedness is genuinely

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never ... , the process can seem sort of random. It's not like that interviewing for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  because there was a fake statue of David like 100 feet away. There is ... DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  Happy new year everyone! I'm hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who always seem surprised when they find out, Michigan is on the EASTERN time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  dish under 375 degree heat. A modest serving of leftover bread stuffing ... all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e.g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... ideas), and hang out with friends. so there's a lot going on, but campus ... of the dining halls are closed because so many people are away from MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  , Harvard or MIT, has a better sense of humor. Just hang the sign up and see ... prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry. MIT loves to trash Harvard, tell all sorts of stories about how Harvard

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in my other entries, so hopefully many of you are avid players by now, if ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have done a respectable 51 out of the 101 Things listed. Though I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  chose MIT and Harvard University to share one of seven national, multi ... school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  . It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad ... problem, except that 1) it was 45 degrees and raining, and 2) I had no idea

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... what feels like eternity without actually getting all of the pus out, so ... continuing to bother that welt would increase your chances of infection, you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  Name: Anjum Sharma Hometown: Perkasie, PA Degree and Minor: 15 with a ... time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I didn't like the way the bobas tasted so I started shooting them out of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about, I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that Lydia K. so generously created for us bloggers who can't think of anything

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019