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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  -interpolated constellations swimming in celestial gutters cluttered with light pollution. As I ... penurious radiators, I can't help but rhapsodize my midsummer memories of ... packs of gum because I mentioned that the kind you had in your backpack

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  in the morning*. Hey Stewardess, can I have another cookie? *This was a ... ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  art adventures at MIT?” What I thought I heard: “how many pretty pictures can you fit in a blog post?” The answer, it turns out, is a lot! I ... origami pleated designs I folded in my freshman year. These pieces only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas ... in the bleachers and watched the various events unfold. I snapped this ... / athletics / arts fairs, where I found Mollie (decked out in full cheerleader

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  -below temperatures seeps into your bones. I can still recall the breath of the cows and ... that I am at MIT, I have found that winter in Boston may be the same ... can differ so drastically between rural America and city life. I have

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  just a little bit; still can't get over how exotic edamame sounds. I ... obvious culprit, but I can't help but mention some other preoccupations that ... -walked along the Charles to put in some minutes for getfit@mit. I was happy to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  , and I don't know how much longer father can hold out. The enemy has ... a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... , hopefully it's not just some well-known internet hoax that I've been taken in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  knowing how badly i keep in touch with people, i'd have stopped talking to ... . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  can be considered with your other talents in your application. Send this ... process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got interested in the field, how you acquired your research opportunity, your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  So one of the best aspects of being in Boston for the summer is all of the free cultural events that you can avail yourself of. One of the ... sponsored by a local radio station. It's like a drive-in without the car

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... ! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... miscellaneous. Hmm. In two and a half hours, I will be attending the "Petit

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  in my senior year of high school, and how I’d finally carved a place ... culture is quite important at MIT: you can choose how much you do or don ... getting caught up in something else, so I’m glad I got to see what it was

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with ... , there are no wrong choices - only good choices, and better ones. I can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... apps? OK, well I can’t see you if you’re raising your hand, but I bet ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968 ... how long I stared at this thing until I found the word &ldquo ... really cool stories behind them? Neither did I! In the Wiesner Building are

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT ... had one in the summer of 2004 I had a UROP with a professor in the ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  clarity. Gyroscopes would seem fascinating in those times, and I didn’t mind ... lack of solutions, nor monitor the clock. In 5.112, I’d slide to the edge ... , and reboot the cycle. I quit the six-hour Tech Call job in lieu of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  difficult. I’m sure you can guess what I’ve been doing..... (*drum roll ... now, in Boston, not back in Denver, but I should have!!) Go to ... everywhere. I didn’t have a car in high school, or a license for that matter

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step-brother-in ... night almost ended in a sketchy, sketchy way, except that I am

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  I did in middle school. I loved lego robotics, and my mom can testify ... fifties, and it’s the most positive and happy I’ve been in weeks. I thought ... with them in the beginning, and I am paying for that now. 😬 [carousel

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025