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• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is ... experience and zero clue how to set boundaries and communicate in a healthy way ... promptly thrown into a slew of new experiences; they have to learn how to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  train to arrive, and the trip itself is around ten minutes. I get off in ... try to be speedy in my getting ready. We still leave too late to be on ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  will be sure to get the interview report. Midyear Report: I know that ... you to work on your MIT application in the meantime. Working on the MIT ... [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• 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 / 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

  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 / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any ... isn't that bad. So therefore your outing will be inherently great. "HOW ... invite him/her out to an evening banquet. Register online and have all

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and ... LIFE - forget how it felt to receive that e-mail. If I go crazy and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• 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 / 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

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  Open House In the afternoon leading up to the much-anticipated SONIC ... was early, I still wasn’t able to get a seat to the standing ... across the lobby to the Thomas Tull Concert Hall to check in on the MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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