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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  until the end to see his really great advice for prefrosh! Melis: Can you ... medicine for my taste. There are times when I seem to make no progress and I ... best place for me to study biology and do interdisciplinary research. MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  beneficial to me for the most part. So during the summer before MIT, one of ... applying mainly to Terrascope and ESG for learning communities, though the ... a larger room. When I go to office hours, I’m able to ask for help or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  various dorms and houses to decide where I actually wanted to live for the ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  for now, I’d like to share three pieces of advice. These three pieces of ... “Study hard” or “Eat your broccoli.” As I prepared to leave home for MIT ... think its a good way to start, but there's no substitute for just going

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part ... ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You ... strolling through the Infinite when I came across a poster for something

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  ... for now), etc. Now I don't mean to imply that I do that alone (if you ... No I'm not a Cylon (or at least not that I know). But for those with memories spanning more than a year it's simply easier to introduce myself as

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP is supposed to be this easy, carefree "ooh I'm going to take one three-credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours ... I am able to grow facial hair to be my punishment for some inexcusable ... it--"I lost a bet," "for warmth," "to remind me of why I hate facial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  !). My advice, as for all freshman classes, is to do your problem sets ... , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... again quickly). And I'm sure that's all you care to hear about the GREs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  committing to MIT or any college for the matter. I had a strong desire to ... ’t even be on campus to try out an intramural sport, for example. I ... to IAP, I was looking for what PE classes to register for during my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  know that this class is supposed to prepare me well for technical ... strange place to be in, and I can't help but feel greedy and selfish for it ... and I'm happy to say that this spring I am a lab assistant for the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of ... Saturday Shoutout to all the student groups for planning, a special ... . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  . (This is mainly due to how awesome and entertaining these poems are.) For ... assumptions for the benefit of the world, make up your past to fit in with the extraordinary. For the benefit of the world, forget who you were to fit in with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  chill week, which is a week filled with events for new people to have an ... , which I am excited for. I know it sounds like wishy-washy mysticism to be ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  on my current streak; that is to say, for each of the past 1000 days ... holding myself to them too strongly. I want to start running, not for the sake of physical fitness, but for the sake of proving to myself I can do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  , surreal moment for me, and that quote was the first thing to pop into my ... to believe you; thank you for that. I'm so happy, and proud, and ... for some reason is still reading this -- I would love to hear from you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  nothing. Paying to relax and get pampered may be on the calendar for the ... . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... while on the toilet. Blame it on all those apps for everything you can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  going. Over the past month I've tried to unpack for you some of our ... . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  disciplines to showcase MIT's talent, legacy, and future, and to prepare for the ... hopefully we'll get someone to cover it for ARTalk. SIMMONS ARTS INFUSION: I ... of yet another great semester in MIT arts, and to celebrate this MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... , continuously, for several minutes. According to some of them, people are actually ... ’t know what I want to teach for Splash, but I have some ideas… There

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010