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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  take showers and play with Adam and all that fun stuff. Maybe I should do ... clueless. So thank heavens for Professor Lois, who decided one day while lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  be fun to share some with you. I asked the class to submit poems if ... Fredlund (Sestina) The Earth Is Round for a Reason (or haven't you heard ... have never seen before, amidst staring at my reflection for 21 years. it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  , face paints, balloons, parades, candy, games and tons of fun for everyone ... willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for ... : [MIT students] Subject: Candle-light Vigil for the Earthquake Victims in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  ’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for ... to work, I quickly ordered a new adapter online the following day. It ... were all I needed. I now feel moderately prepared for tomorrow’s exam

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  of IAP 2010. For those unfamiliar with IAP (Independent Activities ... for a better idea ‚Üí Overview of IAP 2010 From what I've heard, some ... makes! & Finally, a search for “IAP” on the blogs homepage will pull

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  the founding of MIT's course in that area. For example, Courses 1 ... Site Here's what all the numbers stand for! Course 1 - Civil and ... course material for A HECKLOAD of its courses for students all over the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me ... training for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University ... kids (all of whom moved in on Sunday) has left me no time for the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  playing video games or reading books. i go out with friends and have fun ... feel okay about everything. for example, i'm usually really self ... . things are okay. things have been okay for a while now. i go to bed and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  me among the very impressed. MIT is a great place for origami

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  intimidating-looking cafe I saw in the neighborhood of my hotel, asked for a ... twenty miles tip-to-tail. We’d speed through the middle for a few minutes ... basically the entire one-page menu—while the father fed bits of it to a dog

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  some context before I begin my inane rambling. For anyone who doesn ... they announced Arabic for English speakers. In doing so I found out that ... experience points (XP) for each lesson, with ~10XP corresponding to a normal 5

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... seminar program that was literally just for teaching you how to do good on ... internships really wound up lining up for me this year. I was lucky enough to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... take.  I showed up for Writing Science Fiction on the first day extremely ... met with the TA’s and Student Support Services and I finally asked for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... nothing they could do, so I luckily found replacement pit tickets for $80

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

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  physics, then I teeter-tottered with a few other majors during my quest for ... the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, and it is actually ... , look online, and see all this hype around the acronym UROP; Undergraduate

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  reading about them online or watching them on the news. I am excited for the future, both for the things that are being discovered and created here, but ... gravitational waves, learned about opportunities to work abroad for free (MISTI

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  Winnie. Hi Winnie! Ever since Ben Jones left we've been looking for ... upon, Winnie has agreed to take over for now and help all of bloggers ... mentioning a brand new feature for the MIT bloggers: Locker Space! We're not

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  could interview me over email for an article she's writing, on how ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to happen? I have heard of other schools using information found online to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  until today, I've procrastinated about selecting a HASS class for next ... my other classes. After using the search tool online, I managed to ... context for policy-making. Primary focus on domestic policy. 11.017 Urban

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005