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• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  scared right now. Be excited. Orientation is one of the craziest weeks you'll experience at MIT, seriously. You'll be rushing around, meeting tons of new ... bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  a term at MIT. For some of you, this might entail working a part ... ? Interphase starts at the end of June and goes until mid-August. So I’d say it ... cost? A summer at Interphase will set you back a total of Nada! On the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  for the Straight Guy." Yes, tonight (Tuesday, June 20) at 10 p.m., Ed will get made over by the Fab Five as part of their new season in Las Vegas (see photo of Ed "before," with Carson Kressley at right). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  the large, non-tubular envelope at me. It was kind of exciting, and ... DID YOU KNOW? The name of the "avocado" comes from the Spanish ... whatnot. Let me tell you the story of when I got my admissions decision

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of research: 1. News: Summaries of breakthroughs at MIT and beyond. -Some MIT ... up your very own copy at the end of IAP!

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  impression that a lot of smart people (and, by extension, a lot of people at ... always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... everything done, and we got a great group of freshmen in the entry, as well as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... should go rectify all of these things… or at least the first two. I’m not ... I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  almost "ALL" of international students at MIT have earned some form of ... if there was a mix of people, some of whom were good at the arts, or ... problem set late at night, you will certainly feel a lot of pressure. At the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  admitting our students. I had at times been a bit jealous of my friends and ... are nearly one-third of our undergraduate female population at MIT now ... view of what life was like for our students, especially our women, at MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  (title taken from The Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool) I keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think of it as a stack, as opposed to a queue - so I cover things that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the ... . UROPs are wildly popular, with 92% of undergrads doing one at some point ... laser-induced mind control at MIT? But probably the most enticing part of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... ’m taking two classes at Harvard this semester, and one of them is in an ... students at MIT). Sutejiro Yukichi was one of my favorite international

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of ... WARNING WARNING!!! Physics content ahead! If you're afraid of physics, well ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT ... of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  qualified no longer existed at the time of competition -- Serbia-Montenegro split into separate countries a few weeks before the beginning of the ... -hundred-something bears, each one decorated by one of the countries in the United Nations

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school ... being. A big part of this was learning how to cook and bake. I tried a couple of elaborate recipes that year, but for the most part I just spent

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  got to know at MIT and they've been nothing less of a second family on ... my time at MIT, and I'm forever grateful for a community of people that ... When I started my freshman year at MIT four whole years ago, senior

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a gastronomical bildungsroman**. *In all prepositional honesty, at least half of the living at pika happens on the roof instead of under it. Pika's homemade

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  previous level of knowledge of ballet was at best mediocre. I know vaguely of ... also gain a sense of wonder at any live performance. Even getting dressed ... minute at my desk feels like a minute wasted doing everything outside of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place so readily frequented by my floor that we have a stash of Beantown coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017