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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  was a counselor at this one camp and I was supposed to do it again this ... point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp ... . Students are also not allowed to jaywalk - Sheridan Road, a fairly large and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  ‘20 were very involved in!) originally founded in 2017 to paint a long ... . We wanted to focus on recreating a memorable part of campus that we ... visceral memories and relationships since coming to MIT. Yijun Y. A

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... stalking him visiting his office. But then the universe decided to throw me a bone. Though he's not teaching a classes this semester, he decided to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i ... 's fine to outgrow people. isn't that something you learned a long time ago ... friendships and connections. i can tell they really mean a lot to you. more

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  this? During this time, I've been able to talk and spend a lot of time ... admissions team that I was trustworthy enough to a) run my own CP* events b) have my own channel to livestream to adMITs and c) host my own Q&A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for ... Student Street. Follow the parade to a New Orleans Jam session for the MIT ... open to the entire MIT community and will be a great way to celebrate New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  , if you want to be a good scientist or engineer, it's important to learn ... /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  . Equally as important to me, this year marks the more conscious journey to ... experiences. When I applied to be a blogger, I partially wrote about how I enjoy ... ; 17.307 Excited for a class is a... strong term... but I choose to have

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  something to do with magnetic monopoles and/or the Freemasons. (As a point of ... thought after signing up for a 10 pm trip last Thursday to Wallace ... Students. Thanks to Sara '10's vice presidencing skillz, MIT SPS borrowed a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this ... FSAE instead. But then Adelaide '09 brought me back to earth. She's a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... date of birth are included. You do not need to be a music major for this ... classes or be a music major. Art. If you are an artist and would like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  ? (looks at Frank) Didn't that one girl say there's going to be a guest ... nine celestial bodies you would run over with a fusion-powered trolley to ... was able to ask her a couple questions along the way. As a professor

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  to hear that 20 percent of the undergraduate population at MIT plays a ... emphasized? There’s a lot of ways to answer that, but I think the most important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  view:     It's good to be back to campus, now as a senior ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating ... currently sprawled open to reveal a typical sight. 18 hours remaining! must

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  wanted to preface this post real quick by jumping in and giving a little ... we were in Random. As a joke, Raymond decided he wanted to "secretly ... Duolingo thing. He challenged me to a game of chess. Aidan Chambers, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... understanding often complicated solutions to important computational problems ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... about Cambridge- Being able to explore such a beautiful little city on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... less a list of phrases and more the collective tendency to excuse poor time management decisions on being a frosh that doesn’t need to worry

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  going to class, we had a packed schedule of walking tours of different ... JSF was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We were exposed to a side of ... importantly, we got to interact with Parisians not as tourists, but as students

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018