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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  people interested in a double-major to make a rough class plan after first ... you're going to study at MIT? Well... first, I don't really know what ... of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... fun models, from the traditional orizuru (paper crane) to Christmas ornaments. I was amazed by how the satisfyingly geometric creases gave rise to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts ... ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  classify these “First of all, I’d like to say that bringing up things I ... that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober ... that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  . I can defiently call this first year at MIT a success. In regards to ... lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  -Eritrean Students’ Association, and we had our first transition of power to a new ... ’t want to run in the hall because who does that, but then also you feel ... somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... things I've done to explain why I've been away from this platform. To be honest I have been attending to other things but they have not been cool

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  to commemorate the event. This also inititated the first cross ... alumni that have lived on my hall, going all the way back to the MIT class ... current residents to keep pushing forward and doing great things. I found a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  iced tea we tried not to drink. Some of you might be having your first ... forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced ... gabbing about everything from data visualization to volunteering to the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I ... chunks of cheese, and a handful of crackers and call it a day. Firstly, I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one ... extended period of time, causing my 6 AM flight to leave an hour late, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  in some time to have fun." At first, I didn't really listen - I had so ... fickle and annoying and COLD." I remember my parents jokingly asking me to ... knew it was going to be cold. I had packed my tried-and-true winter gear

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  Physics, take the first 8.012 test, decide to major in Literature, pull an ... Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to ... information page, it appears that I will have to be identified as an aspiring

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no other reason than so I could blog to you about it, but the incredible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of ... mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  complexity, i thought, comparable to this. just1, for example, was my first ... , of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the ... programs with esp again, i'm on the gph writing team, i'm trying to keep a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  , grumbling about having to make one of these posters in the first place and ... that are going to happen, see below. Those posters are eye ... upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  then, I have to first come to terms with the sobering inevitability that ... First, a semantic distinction. When does a "day” truly begin? Does it start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  very first stop in our weekend vacation. I had been the one to suggest a ... . Campus Preview Weekend for me was a chance to create a real first ... parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014