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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  a symbol of my individuality. They're a celebration the independence I ... . They're also the beginning of when I began applying "ask for forgiveness ... me the average daily temperature was 6.5 degrees Fahrenheit), so we

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  , maybe more -- but apart from a few bites of poke, the last time I ate meat ... think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then reconcile myself to the idea of never eating it again, ever. But I can say

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab in the middle of my time in the GEL program and contemplating my ... in their second year of the program. Instead of meeting expectations

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Blake Ross, who is kind of the inventor of Firefox, is ... first term sophomore year. A lot of the other nonlinear dynamics courses ... some score-writing software within the next three days. I took TBP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  Bridge Supplement will act in place of the MIT first-year application. Please note ... offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... complete and submit the QuestBridge Match application. If you’re named a
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... see Brokeback Mountain last night, and it was really one of the most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  of the cultural houses within New House (the others are German House ... (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday ... usually consists of four dishes. 2. Send the list of ingredients, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  out of the printer. Everything seemed too easy, so we went to the ... gathered around numerous booths set up along the walls of the library ... tables. At the very front of the venue was the chief of all the booths

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all ... Living Group). With most of the options being coed, the powers that be need ... first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  and my 238 units past the GIRs, 180 of which I needed to graduate o ... dropped on the week of Drop Date I dropped 2.001/Mechanics and Materials and 6.008 on the week of drop date. 2.001 was honestly the roughest

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  previous posts why I decided to take a Leave of Absence this year. The event ... 's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At first, the idea of taking leave was just a small seed in the back of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  -led music groups over the past year, but we also get lots of questions from ... majority of the students who participate in MIT's ensembles are not music ... , auditions start at the end of August and during the first week of classes

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  also did a lot of stuff that's more fun than on-the-job hair dying and ... the recipes I used to keep myself sane over the past month and lots of ... listed third and fourth on my application. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Don't worry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  left (or somewhere nearby) is a map of the MBTA subway system. You ... on until the very last stop, South Station, which is when most of the ... each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... contributing member of society) dauntingly feels at hands reach. The unknowns are

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  taken made it look like some sort of captcha. I offered to help with the ... , radios fell out of fashion. tetazoo I thought the ham population would be ... discover that nearly half of the entire hall have radios. On top of the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  . Not only am I going to have to bear the agony of temperatures below 70 ... water. Because of the nor’easter (lingo), it’s been cold enough this week ... part of the neck out in order to “deflate” your puffy marshmallow self

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the ... problems from a lot of competitions, but by far the most valuable resource for me was the AoPS forum. Some of the best and brightest students

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  day of Spring Term! I'm a little behind on the questions, so here goes ... number of questions, my answers must be brief (sorry for the brevity). Will ... prospective students of the obvious merits of MIT?" Campus Preview Weekend (CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005