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• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  literature we've read and discussed in class has enabled me to rationalize much ... . This class, not only brought me to the other side of the globe, but has ... me much of where I grew up in the Bay Area and the unique Mediterranean

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  Sometime last year, a prospective student e-mailed me asking about ... , and it occurred to me that this was a very legitimate scientific project ... looked astonished and excited when they heard my news and told me that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  , kids) or taking a (very) brief study break. But something whisked me away ... 't leave the dorm yesterday - and this morning, cabin fever hit me hard. So ... totally burnt out.) I wanted to tell you all this because it helped me. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  observation really stuck with me. Levin pointed out that when the recession ... over the past 10 years. The number of applicants to MIT has nearly ... , I am convinced we are on the right track. That gives me hope. And it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  . Faced with a barrage of Conceptual Quantitative Questions as I neared the ... Friday happened to be a Saturday. Let me restate this so that profundity ... MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department. They gave me this bag for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  regret when you think about four day weekends at MIT. Let me try to explain ... , which reminded me of certain moments in the brief and wondrous lives of ... onion, squash, butter, olives, and pasta greeted me as I entered the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  fast! All of my past Moonbounce memories had me bouncing for hours and ... me, here's Dan '11 (my roommate) getting ready for some bouncin ... Conner 2 (Yuki, James, Dan, and me) are really tight and figured we needed

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  be coming out near the end of July. Is there an advantage to applying ... could, if you're like me, go online and check to see if you were admitted ... due. Let me tell you, this is VERY nice. Great, I'm convinced, when is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... laptop, it lets me do what I'm doing now (type a blog entry in the floor ... certain hard drive size. Lenovo IBM Thinkpad While not nearly as

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  of them devised a unique way to celebrate my arrival, near Lobby 10 ... for dessert. Here, Linda is serving me a handsome helping of the Vanilla ... would fit me best. During the evening of "hall rush," free food and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  relevant to me to the only thing that I talked about with people, the only ... , it’s hard for me to go back and think about all that happened, to try ... untouched for nearly eleven months. I’ve done enough editing to make sure that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my ... ="attachment_111180" align="aligncenter" width="768"] here is a little bit more about me ... ’s Science Olympiad club—high school SciOly was what introduced me to geology

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  has already been done for me - check out this fusion performance of ... to have a cup of tea or coffee to get me going. Otherwise, I like ... ’s nothing than puts me in a worse mood than getting out of bed. What's your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still ... Sectionals. I love to compete, and its what drives me through hell weeks on ... experience. Skating forces me to ruthlessly prioritize, structure my time, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  Holt, and he probably doesn’t have anything to say to me since I’m not ... yesterday. While Sean and I are talking, Congressman Holt walks up to me. Rush Holt: Hi, I’m Rush Holt. Um, no kidding. Me: I’m Anna Ho. I’m an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  campus much earlier than normal letting me have a little evening-time fun ... tunnel near the esplanade." Nice. Clearly a plot by security trying to get me away from the Boston Pops, but YOU WILL NOT WIN COPPERS! NEVER! The

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  nicknamed the "Brass Rat." It's not brass and it's not a rat, don't ask me. (If anyone else has an explanation for this, by all means, drop me a ... . =) (The girl sitting in front of me during the Premiere happened to be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  to buy 500. I've also asked several hallmates to let me see if their ... yes I want to share what each sticker means to me but I really just want ... ="aligncenter" width="392"] let me find the shortest path to your heart ;)[/caption

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  you can probably tell from my stance in this picture I'm nowhere near ... , I could practice both, which made me absurdly happy. And I also ... systems is Catalan, Spanish, and French, respectively. Don't get me wrong

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  Trail. Which made sense to me, because I was dead last in our group, and ... cost me my firstborn. Fuji may be a rather strenuous mountain to hike ... inexperienced climber, Chris '10, who's in pretty good shape, and me, who used to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009