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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  .S. Saying thank you to MIT as a whole is a little bit harder than I thought ... have those times where everything just feels right. There might not be ... . Look as a blogger I feel slightly obligated to tell you guys otherwise

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  thing I said to the lab assistant was, "Can you give me a hand? I have no ... world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go ... morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  - make use of this chance to get a head-start on deciding where you want to ... you who can't make it to CPW: don't be sad! Orientation is essentially ... past week - there is sooo much going on right now: tests, problem sets

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  ... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... actually knowing where I am. In some cities, this is a very foolhardy and ... things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can ... Celestrium (which is a non-precious metal that's really durable.) The gold ring ... *stunning* rings, we had dinner in an adjacent room. There were a bunch of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  . (You can actually read my blog entry about it here, it'll be almost like you were there!) It was a pretty epic dinner party - there was Ina ... which you can move with relative freedom if you wish. Burton Conner is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  outside, where on a typical night there would be none. You will then push ... , but ten times: my top five and my bottom five. Can you guess which is ... It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  is much less exhausting. I promise. Find friends, if you can. Moving really works out better when you have multiple hands and can split labor, a ... regardless, moving is a perennial part of my back-to-school experience, so this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  between things you can control and things you can't, and that where you'll go is not who you'll be. Most of all, try to enjoy your senior year; it ... The MIT freshman application for the prospective Class of 2022 is now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  this is different this has been a build up a wave   I haven ... always be a part of who you are it just takes on different forms some ... , but it is a lot to put into words at the moment—so I have chosen to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  ? Apparently, you are allowed to swim in there...Despite knowing it's a lake, I ... . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen ... ...because apparently he is his own boss of a company of three people...located somewhere

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  ... ...the first thing you think about is a certain protein used in recombinant ... , you can't write that down You know I tool, it's there in black and white ... +" is not something you can say you want to do and achieve with complete

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  MIT, you know what I mean), we can usually reach consensus after a bit of ... , defer, deny) is. Because we have a clear idea of what we are looking for ... occasion where we can't reach consensus, we put the application back in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  phone gets a signal. (T-Mobile users, I'm writing this for you.) There ... Unknown. Forget the brand-name universities and try to imagine where you ... that matter most to them (you might get a surprise). Ask them about their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to Transgender Anti-Discrimination”. In essence, the bill says that you can’t be ... frequently used examples of this is restrooms. A transgender woman can’t be

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in ... ’ perceptions about letting their kids go far from the roost for college. It is a ... rattled, ruffled, and scared in Boston. I arrived as a wide-eyed Country

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  variations, almost anywhere on earth. But MIT is the only place where I can ... research opportunities are a close second.) Put it this way: I can learn ... knowledge, or whatever you want to call it) is one of the great unifying

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Game is a revolutionary breakthrough in admissions technology. Designed ... of an MIT education, including: Building all the burritos you can ... , you may click here. A few pre-emptive FAQs: MTG isn't loading for me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  recommend me a book, I can literally put it [annotation note="If you don ... doesn't mean you can't also enjoy books for adults. A Wizard's Guide to ... reflected the complexities of life. You can put a lot of labels on the issues

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  . The most basic building element is a point-like particle, which has ... building block of the simple nanoscale world. Nanowires can be used as a ... Technology (NIST). I never thought that I would find a place that loves

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005