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• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  is setting in, I always told myself, "If I could do this 100, I can do ... never cracked a 6:30 mile in high school - I did enjoy the meets. My goal ... fast as we can, do you think we will make it" - running, no doubt I used

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  I can pop into unannounced, and I wouldn't feel out of place making an ... them seem to be very interested in undergrads -- I think they find us ... in Biology. I wonder if vocabulary will be a hard job for students who

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from ... or recitation This is one of the few I can use as a general note of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  :)" Yes. I can't tell you how much it meant to me to feel so welcomed ... of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random ... . I had another project, though, which I didn't talk much about in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  three best restaurants in the Cambridge/Boston area but I love them all ... /hipster atmosphere that keeps me coming back. I really can't say enough good things ... Hey guys, I'm back to blogging once a week after a ridiculously crazy

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  in general was my favorite thing. How many people can say that they ... video. I did and they liked it so they flew me out to film! I can only ... do in your free time? I spent most of my time making things in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  from the waitlist in the past few years? Should I even bother staying on ... can I do to help my chances? The best thing you can do is simply to stay ... The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  the place. I found out how kind people can be, though - the strangers in ... , even though they didn't know me, and I don't think I can express how much ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  doubt the power of the weather machine, but I assure you it's real! How ... experience what a little bit of MIT is like. Can't sleep? Curious about what to expect? You can read some guest entries (including mine!) from the current

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... vital part in my communication toolbox. I also draw and [annotation note="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  working with MIT students in the admissions office. Now here’s where I ... really are! I don’t think I can do my students justice by just talking ... I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... Maryland in our hard-earned car to go grocery shopping. I wasn't exactly ... Sliced Roast Beef [mmmm roast beef] Applegate Sliced Turkey [in case I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to ... .Eng program in Course 6 is something students can apply for in their junior year ... understanding how humans produce speech -- more on that in a later post. Number 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  studying, and also so you can judge how cool I am as a person by my musical ... huge championship boxing match, and I was in the control room where they ... DID YOU KNOW? Stonehenge is not in Scotland. Okay, another cop

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  reflection of how amazing God is. I’m in awe. Utmostly, and fully in awe. < ... the amount of digits we can commit to our long term memory. Therfore, in ... can connect with numbers. Even on a given street, we are unique in our

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  compassion as I can. You share so much of yourselves with us in the application ... .) Instead, this post is about how I, as a person, interact with that process ... my makeshift home office can be found. Hello routine, my old friend I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can ... put it in a ponytail. I’ll stare in the mirror for a moment, realize how ... , faded, green hair that was in dire need of a trim. My stylist asked me how

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got ... that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how ... working in admissions was nowhere on my radar. When I was in my senior year

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3 ... (alongside tours!) I’ve embedded all the 2025 i3 videos below in case you ... includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025