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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  Two exams down, one to go. Well, strictly speaking, 462 units down, 12 to go. That sounds a lot better. Exam week is a busy time at MIT; a ... everybody walks to their exams together, buzzing and scheming and comparing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future ... Transportation Authority is here and Google Maps is here. Learn to love these

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... to be my biology advisor (if you have two majors, you get two advisors ... postdoc with whom I work directly, Albert. I was still learning how to do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  Hiya. So on my way back home to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I took the opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... to be hanging out with me? Okay, that picture isn't really from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the home of my friend Andrew. Before I chose to come to MIT, I was nervous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  present all of our really cool research to the big industry sponsors funding us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to this by bribing us with things we would otherwise not be able to afford

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  : Picture this headline: Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus ... that I wanted to go MIT even over the other prestigious institutions I'd been accepted to (awesome engineering schools in NYC, Pittsburgh, and

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  I really was not going to post. There were several excuses I was making to myself as to why I was not going to post: I am not even that ... , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  what they had to say! Short introductions!  Jonathan: My name is ... area to characterize these shapes since they aren't rigid. So we develop ... competition to be the best, I might as well give up now, because I have no hope

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  AHHH CPW!!! Was the name of my last blog post I wrote prior to CPW ... to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might have about this exciting weekend! Feel free to post any additional

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  "the people" of mit, they are only referring to undergrad students, and ... insincere not to say this is somewhat true. I think what is meant by most ... tribe." I think it's dishonest to say that everyone at MIT likes everyone

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  college spring break is everything I wanted it to be and more, which ... :') I went to [annotation note="there's a lot to be said here about PR ... .S imperialism here, but I want to emphasize that awareness is important, and I do

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  collecting every block in the game and getting killed by every possible mob, to ... body at one time.  While I won’t be dying to zombified piglins or ... ? Something That’s Actually Reasonable Sounding? - to subliminally imprint the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  and not enough time. I've always limited myself to 4 classes, or 48 ... stuck! And don't know what to choose and I thought I'd blog about it so ... software development: how to write software that is safe from bugs, easy to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I ... ’t go to rowing practices. This means my UROP is my main organized extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed ... to risk looking like a mess in a meeting, recitation with ten or fewer ... live."][/annotation] I’ve always wanted to dye my hair but not damage it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... doesn’t guarantee you success, or even lead you to success ... . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  addition to books like 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, which I ... applying to college now, you probably know what I mean. I remember being ... expressed concerns about my essays, my parents literally said to me, “your SAT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  A lot of you have written me to tell me you've voted, and it's INCREDIBLE have all your support! Voting's open until the 28th, so be sure to ... wishes when I ask you to respect them. They're all great competitors who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... - which will be coming soon, I promise. But it's silly to plow ahead with ... decisions were just recently released. First of all, congratulations to all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007