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• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... drop off my stuff. I then walk to the nearby Cottage Inn, where the ECs ... . 8:30pm. I arrive back at my parents' house, where I'm staying. There

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  Hey guys, happy 2011! It's been awhile. As I write this, I'm in San ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... yesterday when I was still sitting in 8.01, worrying about understanding how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  ), and being social (because I can’t live with being a shut-in) So that ... just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean ... bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  pm. i'm studying progenitor cell migration in planarians, which are ... to say, i was in survival mode every single day until i finished my ... 't reel it in i might end up somewhere i don't want to be. it's just really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the ... traveling to Ghana, I got more excited about planning. Many people in Ghana

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  in our CMS, so I ripped it down and reuploaded. The original, with ... email so I can fix."]read the transcript[/annotation] and/or the coverage ... ;feature=youtu.be In my last post, I wrote: On a day like today, I find myself thinking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  I haven’t worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that it’ ... one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . obviously i can’t prove this is what happened in each scenario, but i believe ... damaging ways trust, i’ve decided, is really about power. as in, i can ... . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... hard to get caught up in this experience and miss the whole takeoff. I

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  world Where in the world is all the time? So many things I still don ... course i technically can, but... what??? summer flew by']I can't believe it ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  .'"]childhood.[/annotation] There's usually food in the house, laundry doesn't cost $2.50, and I can take long showers. I can watch cable TV on an actual TV. My car is in the ... in a place like Cambridge where paying with cash is a hassle. If I go

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  by just rock/paper/scissors? Are there any dorms where you can live ... - thanks! Now I can link my parents here so they can stop asking me how the ... , you'll get the i3 stuff in the mail. If you never had a chance to visit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  within my lifetime (in 2050), this is something that I need to care about ... taxa currently fished by the mid-21st century (in the year 2048 ... can be done, but it must be done soon. We need a shift from single

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  from creepers and during the night I hide away in my bunker and dig dig ... 't anything else to this post. Minecraft is a fun silly game in which you can do ... released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those ... know where to look, and $2.75 in Amtrak fine dining. My wallet is sad. I ... catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  , where I have my boarding pass open. Gate A68, I saw in stupid blocky ... enough money in my wallet… “Please, is there anything I can do?” I asked ... her in the hallway. I slept an hour after arriving and [annotation note="Where

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally ... nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They ... of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... minor in Ancient & Medieval Studies (AMS). When I tell people about

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Hogwarts a police state where you can’t be in the halls on a weekend in broad ... has a great atmosphere. You can imagine where a vampire might come in ... Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  finally took the swim test! Yay, now I can graduate. In a random bit of ... : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... somewhere in the neighborhood of $30, and I had already spent $30 at LAX last

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006