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• Blog / How to Food

  Food That Makes You Feel Like Home Are there foods that make you think of special places?

  gave me. Because I grew up around Chicago and went to college and worked at the University of Michigan, visiting Illinois and Ann Arbor were

  • by mitblogs
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... notion that college would require of me the same adjustments familiar to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) score. So this summer, I have the ... -based test out of 45 points with the following schedule: 1) Physical Sciences: chemistry and physics ---10 minute break--- 2) Verbal Reasoning: exactly the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  When I was a freshman I joined a plasma physics lab. Plasma physics ... project—and college—thinking there were just a few big problems in the world ... apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  sites like Quora, College Confidential, and /r/ApplyingToCollege.   ... the college application process, nevermind your classes, or work, or ... themselves to preserve their own physical and emotional health.   The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a ... SCP universe. The SCP Wiki is a collaborative writing website about the ... anomalous and supernatural objects and keep them hidden. In-universe, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  , everything felt fake. Days, hours, classes, and psets blended into a ... and physics exams was new and horrifying. Worst of all, I could just ... to endlessly discuss biology and physics and mechanical engineering

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  the early universe with Jorian whose level-headedness is genuinely ... was really exciting. my professor for the early universe is a legend and ... and Wati, my physics UROP mentor have been incredibly patient with me as

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  I entered my research lab at Emory University I was very quickly ... of individual words; it is the physical embodiment of an entire culture ... chances of ever entering an American university, and assisted an elderly man

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  's point. Without further ado, allow me to introduce you to... 8.03: Physics ... neurons for permitting me to learn about... 8.286: The Early Universe Look ... 10^-27 seconds, which means, in technical terms, that the universe

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  scientific community convened for the first time at the University of Chicago ... other universities around the country, including MIT, which hosts the ... the latke was backed by Sanjay Sarma (MechE), Allan Adams (Physics), and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  colleges, I knew that I wanted to do lots of humanities classes even if I ... the University of Vermont). Quick disclaimer, this is not cause I was ... Physical Education classes. For myself, I took Air Pistol, Archery

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale ... for granted the wonderfully fast, universally-available and fast

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges ... did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really ... accepted into the University of Chicago early action, and life was set for me

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  Facebook. Unlike many college students--which might take their intern savings to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves ... African Leadership University for a program in the fall and then return to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  media are undesirable (OPP) "Fake news" should be punishable by law (OPP ... college career. There's a part of me that wishes I had forgone the computer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  year, we had teams come and put on fake Broadway productions. These ... metaphor: running the Hunt reminded me of working backstage on college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  fine ever since']pushed our physical limits.[/annotation] [carousel ... taught a student from every grade level K-12, college students, and even ... practice before entering university. I wanted to focus on my studies while in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Physics test (I also apparently don’t know how many AP Physics tests there ... you told me I’d be a varsity athlete in college. Now, I run the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010