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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  And Not Have It Suck" as it is related to microbes. We spend a semester ... after a movie to discuss it, even though the professor isn't there ... of the global challenges, and then have to present it to a team of mock

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... . I've learned that fear is often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning ... , and training for months, I learned to befriend the flame. Similarly, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  first thing that comes to mind is book smarts, and that's what I ... singing, and I think being able to sing well is one of the coolest things in ... dumb friend, is one of the most freeing things that could’ve happened to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  in one), but there was a lot of legal discussion and things like that ... off for no reason. =) A sphygmomanometer is the device you use to take a ... , anything that you think would add to your application and give the admissions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  is there a more desirable middle ground? (Keep in mind that I lack the ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... personalities, from the bubbly and social to the more introspective. That's fairly

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  to live." THING I LEARNED: hindi text is encoded using the devanagari ... least a single commonality linking the populace, whether that be a ... that is why it is in our nature to attempt to make other people more like

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to ... that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many areas of the ... all at the very same time. And you’d wake up every day knowing that MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  know that becuase u will have a vast eastern culture to discover, and the ... and if it is, where we can find the adress to that website." We will mail all decisions on the same day, and we prefer for all applicants to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  , the bay area, wine country, and Monterey, you tend to be a daycationer ... Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... and we decided it’d be worth a daytrip. One thing I noticed is that my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  sorted on the tools table, but here and there is a drill, a crescent wrench, a measuring tape that someone is going to come back to. Every color of ... room or outside to the fort that is beginning to be built. The floor has

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  extraordinary and vibrant, and to make technological inroads that would change the ... and I have come to enjoy the curiosity and randomness that comes with ... answer is quite simple. I have the tremendous goal of wanting to find a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

   need. Check if there's an in-house washer and dryer, if that is important to you ... with again, and that is for the best, but we're still friends. There are ... acquaintance) than it is your close friend that you think is messy and a slob and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  at all, and it would be sad but indicative of the fact that there's a ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... . There's quite a bit of concern that this apartment would prevent the floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  area is a confusion of research journals, lecture printouts, and the Cell ... . Pyrolysis and biochar. It's a little bit hard to imagine that all of these ... , and felt an overwhelming urge to laugh...just laugh. The test is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  : interactive features that allow the MIT, Cambridge, and broader community to co ... immediately next to the Welcome Center. Over that spring and summer, we started meeting about the project, and they developed a proposal that not only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  , and a larger lounge area which is usually sparsely populated. due to the ... hackathon prize from DirectTV), there is a small family tree that ... around that may occasionally drop in and lay on the floor or chase a spool

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  this is all just a thought experiment..") and then you then look to the ... to count towards the degree. It's also flexible in a way that I think ... should be overlooked. There’s also the fact that people often judge a major

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  , there can be multiple ways to get to the same point, and you have to be ... is a lot better now, and I went out into the city just on my own a lot ... gantry system to do that. This is a subtle difference, but a huge one. When

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  you. There is no way that a.) there are only 1500 talented kids in the ... . But what you might not see, is that there is also a lot of positivity ... . The idea being that if you look up there and see that 28 hasn't hit in

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  heaven. And the fact is that a lot of times, you don't even need the Subway ... is an unbelievably cool city. From the music scene to the history and ... limited to countries or regions, but cities and schools as well. It's also a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008