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• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can ... for stuff? (a concern everyone here seems to have), and hoping that I ... I live in Massachusetts. I am a freshman. I am in college. I go to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... my duty as a member of the press, I snapped pictures for ya. First off ... here it is with a visitor. I'm at a loss for how to caption this one, but

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  where I spent about 10 hours doing some manual labor for Habitat for ... ready, but somehow, I can forgive myself. (I have a slight sweet tooth ... friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  -Schwarz Inequality” is back in high school. I’m not a math wizard like Terence Tao, but ... you're trying to register for a PE class, but the server breaks because ... possible way, or 5+ people congesting the hallway like a sinus infection

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  , and I'll be off to Hartford, Connecticut. You can view the entire ... know whether or not MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk ... aid? Should you apply for it? What should I expect? Also, the local ECs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  be prepared for anything. Boston is a great walking city and I hope you ... river can be a nice break from all the events of the day. Have questions ... weekend. The first question I often hear from parents is, "what events

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  in a tux **Many thanks to Gheorghe '07, from whom I stole many of ... event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... design for the event. Notice the casablanca lilies!!1!!cos(0)!! I applaud

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  just a bit more time, but for the most part, I had figured out how the ... disoriented. For some reason, I really wanted to sleep again…but I did have a ... time. I watched a few videos from MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, which hosts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  knew that this was the perfect opportunity to make a blog post. I can ... observable. I don’t think you can detect a Muslim by just looking at a person ... worried I would be judged for that. I mean, I’m from rural Texas. It

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  children. I hail from sunny San Diego, and have thus never owned a pair of ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology. If you’d asked me even a year ago where I ... from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  ’ve seen him around for the past two years and now I get to see him twice a ... localization that you can watch from home. In case you’re wondering what a ... about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  doors down from each other. We were a couple, we were dating, and he saw the first pieces I designed and thought, "Hey, if Jessica can do this, I can do this, too, since I'm way better at programming than she is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  this--a desire for validation however innate it may be. I don’t know ... end or fade out for different reasons. Friends can be the family that I ... reasonable amount of energy where I can reflect on my stance on friendships

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... like an Initiation for me: the skilled and unwavering competitors from ... line for McDonald’s at 7 AM somewhere in the middle of New York state; I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless ... skeins of yarn and unfinished crochet projects, I can say that I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  . I went home a few weeks ago for a weekend, since I won't be going home ... apple corer and a set of utensils. I've been drinking cereal from the bowl ... sad and felt trapped for a long time until I got a new one. This one is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  employed by writing new blog posts, and I hope to do about one a week from now on. (Restrictions apply.) I can be pretty hard on myself ... In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  center to visit a certain open house that I was anxiously waiting for. Meet ... to Kresge Auditorium for the closing ceremony. After a few words from ... scenes on the spot without a moment of pause. I relaxed for the rest of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [april fools] interview with james e. tetazoo and isn't discovering part of the fun?

  

  . there’s also a lot of plants growing from the ceiling of the truck for some reason. for a late-night snack, i’ll often go to the [annotation ... you’ve heard from your classmates here? once, while i was standing in a

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  experiments... and earning 12 units of credit for it. (You can do a UROP for pay ... , for instance, I had to write that my cumulative GPA was a 3.5, even ... . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006