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• 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 / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  much as some people have in their first semester. Even my sister, who has ... kernels soaked in cold milk). Day 2 (Sunday) Veggie Galaxy (Brunch) Still ... drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Dear fellow chompers, A year ago, I was asked: … and in typical hosed ... year as a private diary to document my food adventures in college. While ... individuals and their communities, and coffee, in particular, carries rich

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 ... : "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if, if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  conference in Florida! The view from our hotel room. As its name indicates ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease ... been working on (which could potentially be exploratory or in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however, have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  ) nobody in my family has ever won the lottery, suggesting that my otherwise ... 's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it ... my genetic misfortunes, despite the misguided expectations instilled in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  whatever word you want. In a bout of curiosity-fueled insanity that is not uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... a lot of risks in making this post."]sleep-deprived college student

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... up in Boston. It’s great to come back to Boston, especially a smart ... me: I joined Pixar in 2009. Like I said I’m from Chelmsford; I went to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to ... interest in art in his last year of high school and resolves to get into art school. In the first volume, his art teacher, Masako Saeki, assigns him

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  hello, after six years

  

  the thought a good home in my body. one of these thoughts is the idea ... questions i am still learning to hold in my heart. i am also trying to think ... we have with each other. we live in a world with lots of ways to talk

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were ... hold on, and we'll see you back here in March. We have posted more

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  hallway. Whether it’s two people who spaced themselves out in the worst ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... bus the most. It's like every bus in the general area is conspiring

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads, our oldest members have only been around for three years. this stands in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  .[/annotation] Within on campus dorms, there are a couple of other halls in East Campus ... information session that historically, this hasn't always been the case. Back in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  the name we will use in all official print and email communication from ... may use your preferred name or your legal name in communications
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  deferred, take solace in knowing that we will reconsider your application anew, and without prejudice, in Regular Action.  Also, remember that this

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... in Regular Action. Many MIT students were initially deferred; you can

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019