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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  how can we cure it?" and "where did life come from?" meant that I ... totally mind-boggling. This whole "weather in which you can actually stand ... prayed that I wouldn't make a fool out of myself in the classroom. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the high life, man. But despite the fact that I am totally in denial about ... introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  interested in Comparative Media Studies, which is where I earned my graduate ... an actual wizard. Loren applied to MIT while I was in grad school, so I ... , Elizabeth, and I started spending weekends in the NMC together, recutting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in ... went to a Burchard Scholars reception, where I identified Prof. Bahr by ... -western-culture Medieval texts - with a Medievalist. In the original Middle English. If I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  , and can I just say: SO THERE. Study Shows Boys and Girls Equal in Math ... , I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is what my desk looked like as I planned out BC's REX schedule. It's going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... optimistic, and thought that if I am just honest in my application, wherever I ... so at first. In senior year of high school, I was not understanding AP

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  lets you combine your passions and interests in many different ways...I can't help but wonder if I've been taking advantage of this opportunity. There are two activities in particular that I love doing, that I could

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... 'm enveloped in an impalpable childlike innocence that convinces me that I spent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  song? First, when it dropped in 2004, I was a subteam captain and the ... date on this song makes me more than a little nostalgic. I did a lot in ... in college, but I am far and away the better for my FIRST experience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  country where it never snows. :) On a equally festive note, my dorm, i ... So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the snow on November 21 wasn't "real snow" - it melted all before noon!) I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... : “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  before. In fact, I know the guy who made it, so it made for a great story to tell everybody in the floor lounge while we ate our Chinese food. I ... could get it out. That's when, and I can't remember exactly who, but, some

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to ... . Classes are in full swing, though I’m just getting acclimated to how much ... .06 [Cell Biology]: I ended up dropping this class in the fall, but it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  where I don't have to sacrifice one for the other. To learn how you can ... FAP I signed up for a freshman advising seminar in the arts called FASAP ... I'm doing both. In a sense, the two influence each other. I'm a better

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... -- so you can gather opinions from many sources.) I should note that there ... Campus the only dorm where I could be happy? No -- thinking so would be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note ... of January where students can conduct 'independent activities' before

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in ... , practices became focused and I began to compete in individual tournaments. I ... family. Everyone brings something unique and amazing to the team and I can

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film ... This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior ... make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , where we had a meeting scheduled in the auditorium. We were a bit worried ... state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and ... ,898 people!! That's insane! I hereby propose a new metric in admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  similar in these ways but I hardly ever find anyone that I can look up to ... ’s not my class speaker 😔 I can’t imagine anyone better — like where will ... , daring, and curious. I can’t think of a better speaker. You never truly

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025