Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all ... Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested ... -3,[/annotation] I thought I didn't even need to consider the chance that I would

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered ... applications from students in the process of waiting for their green cards. If there is a change in your citizen status during the application process
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  would outweigh anything else. I obviously had no idea how hard my 18 ... gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... afternoon about a month ago, there was a knock on my door. When I opened it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  Despite being a brief and shallow fan of Hamilton in middle school, I ... ’ powers of inference. When I saw Firebringer in my freshman fall at MIT ... —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  this feeling that I would fit in perfectly. You might want to chime up at ... in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... my mind. I wrote them down on a board in my room. They stuck. Shifting

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  chuckles and blogging. While I'm sure I'll have more Jeremy-isms later in the ... ) "Hey! How's it going! I'm Jeremy. Just FYI." (talking about the Elmo ... are bad." "This is detestable, I would say." (after I suggest

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  When I was in Madrid, I often spent my afternoons wandering around in ... one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... the pool). We learned how to incorporate water jetskis as well (in case

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  's protests in Copley Square. I took all the photos above, and the following ... there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a ... could not be more proud, and I am certain that you join me in thanking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the

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

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  ’m smiling in this picture or squinting because i can’t see through my foggy ... , I’m also wearing Merino wool socks in this picture. Merino wool comes ... cold when I step out is because of this guy. 10/10 would recommend. 4

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  World, or what I imagine Boy Meets World would have been like if I had ... school students, I decided that this anecdote would pair well with an ... .12 showed me that I really could do organic chemistry, if I just believed in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More specifically, I live in 2 East, or 2E for short. 2E is like a family to me, and I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  , or October 31. Three weeks ago, it was October 10, and I was in Houston riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... thing I can think of is Taipei, after spending a month in Hong Kong, but

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two ... contacting professors who had research projects that I was interested in. After a few interviews and lab tours, I was offered a position in the Chen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn ... about my choice to come here was that sometimes I would visit my friends ... , Asymptones, NaNoWriMo—but I enjoyed the camaraderie, enjoyed learning how to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  because I was lazy, but because I wasn’t interested enough in the subject to want to dive into the deep end…I was fine with wadding in the shallow waters. I would rather labor over advanced biology or mechanics, it’s all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007