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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  concentration of excellence at schools like MIT is really unmatched in the large ... the ultra-elites is more conducive to staying motivated -- there aren ... rewards, so the whole "MIT is hard" thing sounded exciting to me, not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  much a school costs. You are in the process of determining where to apply ... minutes... even in the driving rain. Ask if it is possible to have lunch ... If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  have been at most points in the past. It is easy to lose perspective ... is perhaps the most egregious. I know crying is a healthy outlet for ... . The need to look young and beautiful is a shackle, the kind that you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  particular that stuck out to most people: "Spinning Yarn." So the idea here is ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... someone else in the room relates to something they've said, the barn of yarn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  MIT, but that's because there is so much diversity in the people, the ... it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to ... left. I got to talk to Ben Jones, who is more awesome in person, if that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  as the piano-conductor for the band; that is to say, I both play piano ... theatre is that, in my opinion, the real skill is recovering when things go ... piano was to fill a random spot for the State Solo and Ensemble Contest in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the ... super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  memory results in a confused recollection of the entire group. this is why ... to prevent people from calcifying in the ways that they think. Aim to ... 22 to 28 will pass in the blink of an eye, and so on. thank you for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  to 6 boxes of storage in the dorm itself (usually in basements or suite ... the U-Haul in Central Square, which is about a 15-minute walk from my dorm. I think this location is the most convenient for students living on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  -grade oils. Anyway, the problem is that in addition to getting oil from the ... sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to ... . In case you just tuned in, my job is to turn turkey carcasses into oil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  too scared to sleep in alone in the Dominican Republic. They were mine ... . According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a bedroom is primarily defined as ... insisted on having them up while i remained in the closet is a mystery only a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  . Maybe this is why internet culture in the US cares so much about random ... earlier this week is how obsessed the US is with capitalizing things. In ... theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  to you. the most important aspect of a college is how well you fit in ... ’t prerequisites to success. in the end, you’ll be yourself wherever you go. mit is ... so loudly in the wee hours of morning that sleep is an impossibility

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some ... you learn to care for others. practicing that is one of the best things ... to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Chocolate Tasting Nuts, olives, and 99% cocoa

  

  stayed mostly in the range of 60-75% cocoa, and had two insanely ... in Sideways, we worked hard to find unusual flavors in the chocolate ... hosted chocolate tasting last night. I went to a similar event in IAP 2004

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  booth now that people buy from machines? Who is taking the metro, what ... One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to ... , first years have the option to stay in their dorm or move to a different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  sentimental; inspired by my dad, I’ve set off to intern in Germany for the ... the bravest people I know, but even so, it’s hard not to see the fear in ... in February, she’s struggled to stomach the idea of leaving home

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  :24 pm:  everything is somewhere in the millisecond range,  which is what ... , at least in part because 6) is based off the perfectly smooth conical ... cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is ... here at MIT. The way I managed to get this one is I emailed a lot of ... because learning is learning, and you'll get that in pretty much all UROPs

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005