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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  and strawberry and coffee and... wait, I can look them all up." "Okay, I ... DID YOU KNOW? "Hey Ruth ['07], I need a did you know?" "Oh, those are always the best part... how about the milk vending machine in the basement

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I ... as a kid. After a while it became apparent that I was stronger in the classroom than on the baseball field. I went to MIT, majored in mechanical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  virtual interactions. I can text one or two people regularly and be content ... compilation of some of my favorite calls/interactions in the last few months. I ... either by the technology used or the reason. In addition, I will only use

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in the country where they study.
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  Hi, all you folks out there in Blog-Readership Land! I'm at my mom's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... process. I've made some effort to keep up with current events in Admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  episode that I appear in is #297, so there are many, many other great ... I have heard the term “Shoulder Season” to characterize the time ... of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... , not IN the tour. I present to you a glimpse into what the average MIT ... guy took a picture. I stepped out of the crowd and got my camera out in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  back in 2016. Back then I didn’t have the background knowledge to ... wasn’t until that very moment where I was holding my bowl of rice and curry and standing right in front of him when I acutely realized that THIS

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  look who i found in vienna hi joon

  

  [annotation note = "joon looks much more aesthetic than i did in my picture jesus"][/annotation][annotation note = "in case you were wondering this is true outside of pictures as well"][/annotation]

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... down, we were back at the hole-in-the-wall bookstore; I recognized the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three ... can agree to because we're all human. In a world divided along many ... share in the experience. But now that I think about it, it seems hard to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do ... dawns on me that I left my coffee in my dorm room. Ten minutes to my 9

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  England and the first term is half way over! I really can't believe it. The ... -togethers. I see the other two MIT students in Course 1 (civil engineering ... , the weeks are dragging on. But it's okay because I'm here with 24 other

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were ... sisters. Upon arriving, I signed in with my name, living group, and class ... do have any burning questions about MIT, you can always leave them in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  Hello Friends! I am back with my biweekly vlog update, quite late because I am lazy have been preoccupied with my schedule. I've been ... is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it not once but TWICE because I was deferred the first time around in ... reading so can't say too much yet, but it deals with hard topics in a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not ... 2005), holidays (in 2004, July 4 was the first holiday I took off ... night in spring 2005), and a lot of times in between. I guess I'm a little

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  or so. Inside Johnson, I was struck by how many people in the Class of ... anything in particular) it was 8:45am and I decided to make one last break for the bathroom. I was in the last group allowed to use the facilities

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to ... you need to get any medicine!! 4) Anyone at MIT In all honestly, if I ... (FUP).  I held in my tears and sadness the entire day, but by the end of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  from the waitlist in the past few years? Should I even bother staying on ... can I do to help my chances? The best thing you can do is simply to stay ... The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005