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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Every Monday and Wednesday night, you could probably find me in ... piece, you have a sheet of paper in front of you in black and white. You ... in what you do.

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  are hammering in morse code and are repreatedly trying to tell you ... construction workers and the little birds and Soulja Boy? All in my head. (You ... probably be banned in the future.) So: if you are Professor Lois and you are

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  to the question, what do you want to do in the future, has always been ... . The Fall Career Fair happened in September, and I didn’t really actively ... first-years, dropped off my resume in several places, and filled out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  encourage you to watch as many as you can because they show what MIT students ... and insightful as the first. In case you're interested, the entire ... “TIMtalks”, in which MIT students who have invented, implemented, succeeded

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean ... summer in a row.  His major is Course 16, or Aerospace and Astrological ... NASA field center in Pasadena, California.  Pasadena is about an hour bus

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program where high school students can come to campus to take courses and live in the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  , though there is an application process whether you are in high school or ... this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC ... you to better understand the ROTC programs here at MIT.   ROTC is more

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  friends can form in the strangest situations.   First years, welcome ... boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The MIT PE Lottery for the fourth quarter starts today ... in history. Surely, Dr. Sarah Tabacco writing "NOT FLAT" in three-foot-tall letters thoroughly ingrained the structure of cyclobutane in my mind, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology ... My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  . If you are interested in doing research at MIT, you will need to be ... must invite you to their lab to engage in research. If there is a ... -degree student. Exchange students are affiliated with a university in which MIT has
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  opted to stay another year in order to finish up and graduate. One day ... on the dorm's e-mail list between this senior and an undergraduate in ... 't be staying in the dorm over the summer. so, if my two assumptions are

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  you told me I’d be a varsity athlete in college. Now, I run the ... bring these atypical students together. Best of all, you get to share in ... I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  in my dorm went and got piercings together. Their excitement and joy ... of them: Chameleon Chameleon is a body art studio located in Harvard Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  hate that I can't understand Malayalam, or feel comfortable in any ... for finally, finally giving South Asians the representation in media ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  . But I also wanted to do this post so that you could, in the comments ... It might seem like you've been doing nothing but filling out forms ... . Scholarships are nice. They provide you money for college (offsetting your Self

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  ? Woooo Sochi 2014! If you're interested in previous hacks, MIT hacks ... Before You Graduate", which varies a slightly by academic year (for example: 2011 and 2008.) On the Class of 2016's list, number 82 tells you to Hack

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  freshman you may have a class or two in 56. I had my HASS class there and a ... When you first visit MIT you may think that it's ugly. Butt ugly. Uglier than anything you've ever seen. On the other hand, you may instead

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  definitely fixable. so imma do it ASAP   see you in a bit :) ... made were in the sections i choreographed (the irony…). my parents really ... bitterly cold out, so as soon as i got home, i bundled myself in a ton of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  distance it can buy you. She sees money as a way to unlock the ability to ... media studies students are thrown together for a semester to work in ... in units of XBox 360s (a trip to Istanbul? that's like, 9 XBox 360s

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014