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• 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…

  

  —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about ... rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... hereditary—my multi-talented mom* taught me how to fold origami, do beading

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... -persona STEM-free and relatively non-nerdy in order to preserve the major amounts ... that you cannot respond to emails in your inbox when I know for a fact

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  stayed in touch more with a friend who moved away. Get to know people ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... senioritis project–something to do in the time that you procrastinate all of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... to a showing of the new movie!" This is actually what he said. I take ... it. Akash continued that he was thinking about trying to get us into a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  take-off in Boston to touch-down in Quebec City was around 5 ½ hours because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the ... . We made sure to get one with a kitchen so we could cook food if we

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... have your homework every week to be like, “write a poem! read about how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  was symmetrical in order to reduce the need for aligning multiple parts ... redesigning the device. "We were having a really hard time getting fluid to flow ... so good that it squirted me in the eye," he says. He loves talking to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  achieve that or how to get to a point where I know how to approach problems ... obvious thing in the world.  VI. In Jane Wong’s book “How to not be ... , it is better to get there late than not at all If I burn myself out in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  more snark in my life, you think? Responses to Comments Nur asked: Just ... in applications, and the class council does some magical process to ... as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  to get really busy. But we went on the annual New York trip a few weeks ago, where you get to see TWO plays or operas in New York for FREE with ... have to try a couple semesters before getting in. Danny's in the class

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... majoring in CMS and looking to get a job in the gaming industry next year ... conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  see what people are working on and get to know what’s happening in each ... face-to-face interactions in the hallways and classrooms. Obviously, this ... to learn more about the genesis of different friendships and how

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  interested to partake in social activities. Though to be fair, you get what you put in, so my detachment is on me.     There’s an innocent energy to ... gifts as a way to distinguish the recipient of each gift. Then sometime in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to ... QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  you try to take them in your luggage out of the country, you can get ... likely to stay in place, with major policy changes. When I ask how my ... -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  engaging in a behavior to get an external reward or to avoid punishment, and ... your goals. Goal Planning — consider how to intervene in the automatic ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  being in Boston or Cambridge. Sortof surreal to experience that in ... . This trip will conclude my fall travel season, so I'll get back to ... Greene put together, to see who could best explain string theory in two

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have ... Morrison, listened to a new song, and looked over my last assignment for ... and forth in the woodshop. Arabic music is playing. I have come to an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and I'll get to it soon. ------------------------------------- M.D. wrote ... recommend getting materials to us by early February, and Midyear Grade Report

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  people in one room without it getting too hot. My brass rat was about to ... Hey hey! Welcome to the liveblog! At this very moment I'm sitting in ... schools, but make sure you like ALL OF THEM. You don't want to get into a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009