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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  summer projects at the National Institutes of Health (I’m close, but it ... ; they are a home that I share with rats the size of cats. I have this ... and none of the campers knew our real names. I chose my camp name

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 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 / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  of us a custom version of Dr. Seuss's Oh, The Places You'll Go! Every ... 't really think much of it. I really wasn't dreaming of all the places I was going to go, I was more focused on the prospect of high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  with the strength of a firehose, hydrant, or [annotation note ... -comprehensive list of options at/around MIT to do passively throughout the school year, in the random and subjective order I thought of them/was told about

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• 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 / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the world can accommodate travel again. This post will be a list of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse, soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it hits me: I’ve almost made it through two months of MIT! 60 long days

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  of experience to go back on, and I can't reassure you about the next 3 ... are, without a doubt, the single most talented and interesting group of ... 200 words for snow, here at MIT we sure do have a lot of words relating

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again ... frozen is one of the films i can remember the animation well enough to comment that the animation of the sequel was noticeably better. i guess i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true.[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and ... up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the ... . We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I ... , please don't let something like the automated printing of decision letters

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  So I can't take an ounce of credit for this artistic endeavor, but I ... hang from Baker to celebrate the Red Sox. We wanted news coverage, and we know that the blimp always flies over the Charles river so we tried

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays ... on top of this.   January is the last testing date that can ... interview is not a required part of the application (and students whose

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  out and start selling glass ponies in the streets of Venice. [image ... , Birt, Bort, and Burt. They're like the four horsemen of the apocalypse ... ="attachment_113647" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The master at work.[/caption] For

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  Pre-frosh have descended into campus, making the rest of us feel very ... influence what slice of the Institute's culture you experience, especially ... Sirius Black while enjoying some of the treats you may find in Hogsmeade

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can ... of committed. The first time I drowned was doubles tennis. I didn ... quite a bit to be desired, and all I really know about the rules of tennis

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  had reported the same level of satisfaction with their lives. I'm sorry ... . And to those of you who get waitlisted: Waiting's hard, yes. But the ... get off the waitlist, and you could be one of them :) To everyone: As

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me. But now that that’s out of the way, hi hi hi! Last week, I finished up the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  installation of ski lifts in hell, or the release of a successful Blink 182 side ... pouring rain to the Z center for dance practice, or feelings of panic and ... "US KIDS KNOW!" at the Arcade Fire, one of my favorite bands that never

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... double standards between the two and how some of these really old, boring ... said, I didn't join DPhiE for the sake of the title of Greek life; I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021