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• Blog / Residential Life

  whimsically signed, yfnhmc (your friendly neighborhood house meeting chair)

  

  ...school. After all, Boston is full of treats, and how could I not indulge in exploring? Narrowing down my list of living places, I decided on pika, an MIT ... artwork, a tight-knit community with traditions, and a meal plan full of new

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 19, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  all about two things: demonstrating the fundamental properties of ... “classical” (non-quantum) limits. Most of the experiments in 6.2410 use quantum optics – think lasers, mirrors, and whatnot. Except instead of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... able to take a break from academics and train with my friends. Outside of ... of a ton of athletes.” Men’s basketball student-athlete: “I have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... school ran out of vouchers to take these exams so I never got certified but ... at the beginning of July. They gave me an estimated repair time of two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one of the trading company folks – “They chose an intern!?!? Which crazy ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That ... of fun! We talk about things like what separates [annotation note="it's like the difference between just living in a town, and being a citizen of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  hippie-leaning city of Austin, but still. Though the state leans right ... , Texas has a strong presence of different political views across the board ... -out but it is true okay']answer:[/annotation] people, lots of them. I can

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... accident. cronos learns one of his sons will overthrow him, so he eats his ... they reveal their own endings early on and yet somehow the act of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  consequence of being a professional perfectionist, pessimist and long ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in the subsequent month, and by the end of September I got a ‘pretty good

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  advisor at the beginning of the semester and have them approve your course ... a group of people living in the same place would all have the same ... before the school year starts, they publish a whole long list of advising

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  runs. Calendar: Hello, readers! Anyway, it's the beginning of the new ... " meaning "sick of" and not "finished, because I have landed my dream job, see ya next year"), so I sort of just wandered around and chatted with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... , lower, lower, and the tarmac rose to meet us, until WHOOSH. The nose of ... sympathetic to both. I was suddenly very conscious of the fact that I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  MIT's regular action deadline is January 1. The Office of ... 'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline ... perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school forms (teacher

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of ... small breather of vacation time between reading Early and Regular applications. 3. The end of the year is near, which always calls for lists and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... awake because of content. 11am - noon Next is biochem II (5.08). It's co

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of ... the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of ... computer, start watching an episode from the fifth season of Scrubs. Decide

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US ... Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during ... . Snively said: The beads are so confusing!!! Ha! I wish I had a good video of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  people who you always think of by both first and last name all the time? Jess Kim is one of those people for me. I was debating earlier on what ... a novel and I decided a list would be the best way. I keep lists of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008