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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  every MIT student receives in Orientation, and mine is a little more than ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... Fenway Park, home to the Red Sox. In front of me is more of the Back Bay

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  of my fainting, given my general bravado in the O.T. and clear lack of ... home a happy 2011; I would’ve wished them in person – except I’m in India ... flight cancellations, some in-flight meal confusion, a missed train, a last

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  My last rendezvous with an ambulance occurred in the suffocating heat ... . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the ... in black, belted cargo pants (which took forever to find, by the way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  write. That is, there are many people who are interested in writing. A lot of people periodically have brilliant ideas which they then go over in ... safekeeping upon arrival. (In theory, MIT returns your time to you upon

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... hunt would contain 270--no, 271--no 271 1/2 puzzles, all in keeping with ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain ... euthanized sometime in the next few days. (Insert me pretending that I'm not actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... options remaining, I cluelessly applied to colleges. Being the first in my ... the schools clearly were excellent institutions, I didn't really feel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  haven't seen in 3 months are coming back to campus. This is what August ... in the stereotypical self-introduction. Hi! I'm Evan. I'm in the Class ... other). Most of my waking life is spent in front of a computer, an

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  statistics from the Tech today, let me paraphrase it in one Marilee Jones quote ... their moments, but it's all in order to prepare you for your ultimate pass ... the top ten things I have ever read. But I digress. Sometimes in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  I'm in Southern California now, preparing for the following Central ... statistics are freely available on the MIT website. What are the early action statistics? Is it easier to get in if I apply early? Last year, early action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  note="We have already emailed everyone who expressed an interest in ... decided to shift the deadline in part to provide[annotation note="As well as ... with all of our Regular Action applicants.   Thus, in observance of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of ... . (All the beautiful photos in the rest of this blog post are by Leif C ... is in good condition, but the paint on top of it is old and peeling

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  gather in a big fancy place, eat fancy food, dance, and take a bunch of ... fancy. But in my case, I mostly ran around and took pictures (as displayed below). Side Note: Allan is not in the first few (because we don't like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  in fellowship deadlines and requirements, graduate school applications ... . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try ... astronomy, and get a job in industry, business, finance, teaching, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I ... , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year ... 's say you're a student who's interested in MIT, and you want to continue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break ... in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... of the facilities, but rather the character of the people who live in ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into taking after realizing how bad my French was while studying in Europe this ... maybe some pattern drafting thrown in. What the class has ended up being

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  the Art Scholars website:  “Established in 1998, the MIT Arts Scholars ... , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... writing this to share all the awesome ways that we have gotten involved in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... before me, both in this country and in mine, the difference being that the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020