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• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  are imagining what life might be like here, here is some important ... you get to choose where you live and stay with something like a family for years, and you will love the way that grades are flexible and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  own beliefs. Some of his ideas are radical, and many people do not agree ... they are a necessary organization. My opinions are not always in line ... Physics lab. Oh boy, where would I even begin. Some of the setup (the MIT

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any ... 're looking to do something as mindless as possible. And this is where my

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  , my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega (AXO), had a chocolate fondue party, where ... students in attendance! Background: There are five sororities at MIT, four ... years ago. While there are 120 girls in AXO, there is only room for 25 to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this ... Meta-Circular Evaluator (practically the only project where I beat class ... classes were required. Some professors are better than others, and neither

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics ... aerial trapeze, in that they are both solid objects hanging from ropes. It ... got home, where the raggedy trapeze was waiting. I arrived last week

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  small amount of time later, you know that it must be somewhere near where ... particle before you actually measured it, regardless of where you find it ... know the position and momentum of a classical particle, I know where it

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  , neither of which are actually related to math itself. Or maybe it was ... spend on math has worn off, at least. Math psets are hard, and they are ... ? Are there other things to do on campus that are open to kids? Thanks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... where students teach STEM and entrepreneurship at high schools in ... two hours, where I finished the rest of [annotation note="One of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  applies to immigrants who are living in a country where they are fluent in ... México, which is only like a 5 minute walk from where my cousin lives. It's here where I got my first chilaquiles (my favorite food?) in Mexico and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  class together! Not all twins are like this, but we just happened to ... -registering, there are just so many freaking cool classes! Plus our major (Humanities ... requirements, we now have the option to BOTH have schedules we enjoy and that are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  are a finalist – congratulations! We’re excited to have you applying to MIT through QuestBridge. Here are some FAQs that QuestBridge applicants ... form), and if you are applying for the Match, check off that you are

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ) instead of my usual four or five. My other academic commitments are to work ... through MIT Spinning Arts, but there are always new techniques to learn ... separation from MIT. That’s also made it easier to breathe.  I really miss

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  are barely enough plates for one person to squat while another benches ... to open. There are big speakers to connect to, and I blast rock through ... my shoulders to holding a pushup position. Dumbbells are especially

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by ... , there was a place where I could finally breathe. A page in my notes app ... would be running away from all the things that had made my hometown such

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  's discord status a while ago. "I'M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS ... the fullest. "Remember you are going to die. Or, if you prefer ... Are Like Salt Flicked on the World Ada Limón Won’t Let Prose Touch the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  focus on geobiology, organic geochemistry, and astrobiology. Those are a ... .[/caption] There are four tracks for the major: Geosciences: Geology, Geochemistry ... classes are technically combined, but in reality they’re graduate courses

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  pay for in full, where you are the master of the domain, kitchen and ... , where I’m living for the summer with my partner. Campus is 40 - 100 ... someday own one or stick to the idea that they are too much space and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  in Montana, how many little communities. Next to Montana are Washington ... to imagine how many lives are playing out on the ground. There are so ... the population of Hot Springs!) are students: they represent all of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  There are currently a little over 2,500 blogs entries on this site ... means to them. All the entries on these blogs are good. But time is ... . Daniel: MIT's Financial Aid Enhancements are Released! Sweet. Academics

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008