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• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I've got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. '18, who also wrote ... squirrel--isn’t it cute? how does it survive? why is it scared? Pluck a blade

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  's campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won't be a ... . Despite the rain showers and wet feet, it was wonderful. I'm glad that I don't ... a well-organized system where we reported to a station in order to be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  more discussion, because that leads to a better result. Don't use ... can't exactly wear a naked Arduino on your foot.  We needed to build an ... There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper ... , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... have suddenly landed in a whole area you don’t recognize. There are so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  this, too.) Dropping an activity doesn’t mean you are a flaky, useless person, and including it doesn’t mean you are a liar obsessed with ... you towards your point?” If a detail doesn’t have a clear reason for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  Emeritus Mollie posted this helpful and interesting post to a discussion board recently; it is such a good start to answering your question that I'm ... should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  make cherry lime preserves later.  We then hopped on the T and then a ... from The Mushroom Shop to the Porter Square T station was a long one, but ... protective of his hair, otherwise he wouldn’t have agreed to choreograph a full

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  tEp, a "fraternity" whose website I feel somewhat hesitant about ... , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... photos, plus Bryan SOAKING WET! One thing Bryan didn't do in his busy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ). I haven't figured out if I want to pursue a research career within ... to share a meal, but it frustrated me that I just generally didn't have ... Gregor House a lot.   It was a good IAP. I'm looking forward to my next

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  a meeting in San Jose on Sunday. It was an exciting meeting, with ... years. I'm glad I have the Educational Counselors (alumni volunteers, also ... up to the city of San Francisco where I had a relatively smaller

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  an entire lap. Whateverrr- I’m still a Go-Kart champion. Now, I wouldn’t ... !!), but if you don’t then I hope this post sufficiently informs you of our ... airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... ). I could do all that, but there’s a pear clafouti recipe I’m dying to ... it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... potential to make a positive contribution to society; and GT-Cybersource, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  I know it's been a long time since I've posted a blog... but I'm back ... ? Well, the basic concept behind our toy was a nerf gun that had two blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  . Now pardon me, I'm going to play with the iPhone 3G for a few minutes ... Apple store on Boylston Street. Although the store's actually less than a mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  my world record low test score with a 40% on the third 6.002 exam. Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I really didn't do too badly, and also that you could have gotten a zero and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  piece (or at least, I didn't catch the title) is a six-screen video of ... Kronick) Finally, the undergraduate! So I'm a bit biased, of course ... !) and because, as a former architecture major, I'm acquaintances with Sam

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  other great universities, and I’m very proud to be a part of that legacy. ... year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went to a few weddings, visited family and friends, and generally took time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... different from being respected intellectually like an adult--that, while not a ... at least a little independently and without meaningless restrictions

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  ; The MIT Bloggers are hosting a 2-day [annotation note="If you don't know what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a person or group ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025