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• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to ... QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a ... considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  , HSMC, SUMaC, HCSSiM, and YSP. This by no means is a comprehensive list ... immersed myself in a truly diverse environment. It was a truly life-changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... swept up in the competition. But I can't tell you enough how much better ... incredibly difficult in the face of a three midterm week but these simple steps

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  depends on how much you can handle. What you are interested in. Your preferences, if you have a grip on them in the first place. How much you are ... . Music and laughter. There is so much to see, to feel, to live in. To write

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  an MIT student so i can't really get a glimpse of how life is in MIT ... mentioned that. Also, BC's policy is kind of a policy in name only. If the ... , but I wonder how hard it is to keep a pet at college. Do you have a pet

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  everything you own in a few hours and still get some sleep? Laundry is tumble-drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... included in the cost of your tuition is now a $40 extra membership fee for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  **much harder than I thought it would be. I'm not sure if this is a common ... A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  . And we want everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the friendly and welcoming community found at MIT. In the video we feature Spanish ... . Go ahead and read through them, feel free to share them with your

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  question the world around me; however, in day to day life it is often hard to find other people that will listen let alone participate in a ... assume everyone you meet is more than ready to hop right into a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  expected a wall, now wondered what they were capable of. It was in this ... later I discover it in a box under my bed. I don't remember putting it ... , hitting bumps, gaining momentum, always just a lurch away from breaking free

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  community. (This last one is a bad idea - with such a low admit rate, it ... myself.) The "hate" part is simply that there aren't enough hours in the ... . Anyway, you guys hang in there and try not to worry too much. For those of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  almost died in Boston traffic. Note the lack of a shoe on Kim '09. Kim is ... mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2 ... lateral epicondylitis?" I won the "funniest answer" prize (a free entree and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  to do so much. I feel ridiculous and strange sitting in a hotel room ... , which is a UN organization that deals with sanitation and water issues in ... the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  drove in sacramento? tracy, where i grew up, is known as a cow town. a truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... someone who is terrible at extinguishing hope. no matter how much i try, i

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  about freshman admissions etc. Please keep in mind that MIT is a very ... have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef ... . In the end, you get a finished product that is just the way that you ... having so much freedom is sometimes it’s hard to choose: “I really like a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  Aliebn Too: A Book. everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too is the ... . Jomny finds friendship in a bear tired of other creatures running away in ... way to being wise, a tree feeling stuck in one place, a tadpole coming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  , living with a host’s dorm community, eating way too much free food, talking ... in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... competitions in that we only require a proposal, rather than a completed project

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  -entropy expressions is that they carry a high cognitive load, which is how much working ... also measures how much information you can process at a time. In short ... (a factor we would normally not consider since it is so negligible in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  complaining, but a community nevertheless. In our clique-y self-selected tables ... in the dining. One time, there was a mass exodus when Lamawal found a ... his first month in NTIC, he secured a deal with a security guard. Each

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017