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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  records in the dead ball era. Same for songs. I swear I remember the lyrics ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... your plate than you think you can handle during P/NR - it's how I exposed ... -opening experiences have been things I never imagined I could or would do before as an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  gonna lie. Anyway, admission is 8 €, and I'm not sure how Jesus would ... work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you ... 'm glad that we ended up going. It's unlike anywhere else I've seen in my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  of my photos have changed in size. I'm not quite sure how this happened ... I am two days away from finishing my first semester at MIT. How did ... 's quite simply one of the best games in the world. Looking the hack over, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  please, bear with me). What I can control is how I handle myself in every ... have been, especially considering how much sleep I had gotten, I felt ... one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  I said I'd do it, no? Many of these websites won't have information ... living in a dorm on campus. I was in this program for two summers (I took ... I was in 10th grade (and since that was only three years ago, you can

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  , but also because of what I was doing. I worked in the Laboratory of the ... parameters in the original spiral galaxies to see how the resulting elliptical ... , you might even contemplate how to make a nice triangle in front of the

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  almost certainly would be sorted into Slytherin...) I'll see you in a week ... watched the show from first airing you'd notice how she didn't fit in and ... things in it. So I ordered the first disc off of Netflix and popped it into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  had no idea what it actually entailed. I just got in the uber and ended up somewhere in Boston with a ticket. When we sat down I asked someone how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  to see if I would like who I become if I stop putting in the effort to ... [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By ... concept that also comes up in [annotation note="I'd like to thank Ana

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  Hi blogosphere! I've wracked my brain wondering how to introduce ... . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying ... athletics, gym classes, and other non-academic activities. I was reading in

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... thing I must mention is how infinitely cooler it is to visit the East ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  ’s shoulders throw up in the port-a-potty toilets get in the mosh pit I ... expected none of this and took it in with glee. I ran into the first shop I saw, pawed through band shirts that I’d usually find only in the back of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  because I’m wearing all black in the Florida sun). Right now, all I have for ... , chaotic joy.  But I think there might be something to pick apart in those ... graph, I guess I can explain some things about my semester in a way that

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  . in a previous post i wrote about how an mit.nano class made me feel ... questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... obligations make me feel like i have weight in the world, like i’m not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... would revolve around science and engineering. I’ve definitely found it—I ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  counsel that I would have most appreciated when I was attempting to navigate ... .  How am I supposed to know what is most important? Me:  You decide what ... admissions.  Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  intrigued. When I came to MIT, I knew there would be lots of famous ... appropriate moment I yelled "LSC!" and got a reply from somewhere in the large ... ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  how much I did not want to fucking drop this class. In the five weeks I ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... , ethnicity, and sexuality in both critical and creative work. Limited to 13. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  investment. Better yet I had to make my decision in a week. Everyone deals ... internship, I even used a decision matrix in which you rate criteria and ... functioned as a more systemic method to organize how I felt about each option

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014