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• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  equations by the time I graduate) in high school, but never at the top of the ... A lot of you have written me to tell me you've voted, and it ... huge difference for me and my family. Please do note that I'm aware of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before ... 're the director of a math/science academy? I know the spelling's not a ... ) I headed up into the senior room for the GHAMAS school visit. Robbed

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did doctoral work on testing and develops writing ... on Saturday - is actually teaching high school students terrible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  school — the idea that people will judge me solely based on my research ... along the lines of “Oh, economists don’t really study that, we study…” or ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... changed after months of milking goats and carefully calculating whether it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  showed me this song a week into the school year. it's one of my favorites ... playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a freshman year playlist before i started school last August. and since my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  actually moved here. Throughout all of high school, the idea of college as a ... celebrate the end of the first week of school, I went to Boston Calling on ... too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  The start of spring is an important time — not because summer is ... because the sun stays out past 6 pm. No, the start of spring means one thing ... games are staples of an MIT student-athlete’s spring. Those games are a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  since my sophomore year of high school. It happened slowly. I started ... school and up until about this last August, I ran. The reasons why I ran ... feel all of my feelings until my body hurt too much to feel anything else

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of ... incredible time seeing an entire array of landscapes and cityscapes that I had only dreamed of visiting one day: from the canals of Venice, to the red

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  , the outpouring of responses from high school and college students alike ... importantly, we're all here for each other. Well, I decided that regardless of the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... teacher in high school, and your passion for physics has nudged and

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are ... tweets. While I love the revision that goes into most of my blog posts, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing ... thousand faxes and are working on processing them. In a small number of cases

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our ... Bridge and into one of most famous orchestra halls in the world. This trek ... group of girls clustered together, gossiping happily, oblivious to our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  the fine & performing arts in high school, over 60% of accepted ... The fact of the matter is that MIT is just plain cool. This is not an ... ……errrr uhhhhh……you know what I’m trying to say. MIT is cool. One of the things

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  school year, we are only exposed to a very small sliver of what the real ... Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air ... Bomb Wing with a fleet of B-1B bombers as well as the 317th Airlift group

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We ... schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin ... Wednesdays are pretty awesome. My Friday is pretty the opposite of awesome. Oh

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of ... meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because ... commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008