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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  get a decent amount of legroom (and time to yourself) in the process ... (in addition to still blogging for MIT Admissions - sorry eager blogging ... able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  mindset was "I have to get As on everything, I need to be involved in ... day to really get everything done and be involved in everything. Now, I ... reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in 1949 to get his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rennselaer Polytechnic ... , he returned to the US in 1960 because of the Cuban Revolution. Before

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  today also and I am quaking in my boots because I don't know how to do ... machine they found in the Vandille museum, but before they get a chance to ... disappointed in how I did but that just meant it wasn't meant to be! (I actually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  they do it by weight but you can ask to weigh your pot in between getting ... enough to go to the good food places in NY :("]good food over Winter break ... in town that lets you rate all the restaurants you've been to, and yes

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... environment in which they work and study together. Getting Your Child Ready to ... live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a ... helping to dilate my blood vessels, and how this all related to the pressure

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a ... . Or in laymen's terms, I get to break stuff in lab =). It's fascinating ... guy to get to listen to my professors talk about how it all works and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  walk across Storrow Drive, you can get to Boston Common where this summer ... So one of the best aspects of being in Boston for the summer is all ... Shell play host to the Boston Pops on July 4th, but it also plays host to

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing ... in London, so decided to make a trip out of it. Unfortunately, I'm not ... to make heartbreaking decisions. How to spend four days? For some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  emotions to create a lens I can use to view my worm. I get to see how I ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And ... , keeping that in mind, I pushed forward out of spite. I planned to apply

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting. Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  in theory flexible, but in practice, it's easier to align myself with ... myself, so if i don't get invited to anything, i stay at home and sleep ... . getting asked questions on slack. having to put out bugs as they come up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  area has recently become home to several food trucks - from quick and tasty quesadillas at Jose's Mexican Restaurant to $4 pad thai at Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  five weeks, we had been learning skills to help us in this exercise. From low crawling to how to challenge intruders, we had to know it all so ... to be comfortable with in future years. On Tuesdays from 3:10-5:10 pm

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... hardships to get into MIT (or that hardships are the only way to get in ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... five-something am to squeeze an hour of writing in before school. I struggle to crawl out of bed now, but I’ll stay up late into any night to get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  decisions are released online. But you still get a tube and/or big packet in ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku ... ). Looking forward to meeting you all in a few weeks! :)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  . With no stress of the semester to keep you company. In those moments of solitude, my mind has found itself wandering back to my time in India. In ... soap operas with my parents. I no longer get to eat my mother's home

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship! And ... two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first ... new Macbook) and so I just used that. I don't know how to resize them

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008