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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  'm beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works ... swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  logical stage of development, one of career plans or just a new direction in ... nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action ... of idealized MIT. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  team during New Years Eve after a hard week of two practices a day.” Tips ... has your experience been as a student-athlete at MIT so far? Swimming student-athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT has been an incredible

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  at Hong Kong University for the fall semester and then travel across ... I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... . Among other things.” “Sure, I’ll help you eat that whole pan of brownies

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in her free time, she blogs at FoodParsed, where she shares easy ... ). Unfortunately, all of the reviews have been overwhelmingly negative—the new place

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a ... time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost ... a far-too-familiar part of campus with my friend Kevin

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted, however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  , there’s a little nerve in the very back of her head and at the tips of her ... transcript at the end of the semester is either a P, or NR. You either pass ... For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  education, I felt compelled to try. So Stephen, a few of us here at ... besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... is one of my favorite television shows. During one recent episode

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... , grasping for a new sense of security and normalcy —you all probably know ... HELLO. So the last three weeks of my life have been absolutely

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn ... those are all awesome. This concerns saving money and taking advantage of the perks of tuition, because there's actually a lot covered by that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  Goddess” at Jordan Hall in Boston. Luckily, it wasn't four hours straight of ... ! At the end of the play, in true Deus Ex Machina fashion, the gods ... class looks at moral and social questions concerning the human experience

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  flying at an altitude of 141 feet at the ground speed of 3.1 miles per hour ... charged to your semester meal plan. We offer a variety of cuisines (even ... behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  of teaching at MIT as well! I’ve been a TA for Single-Variable and ... at the end of Junior Year, but the people are what made me stay ... great ;-;. They gave me an Anya “heh” shirt at the end of the semester as

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  you anonymously suggest at the beginning of the meeting. Facilitators ... , because one of the students at the seminar suggested that we change it to ... that the limit of science merges with philosophy. That there's a point at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  Italy”). Out of these outings, Escape MIT, a new student group was ... even have a new mountain on campus that people climb with a fervor of the ... drooled (metaphorically) at the prospect of discussing Common Core

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Quick Update My neighbors are celebrating by firing guns in the air which is not conducive to…

  

  New year's eve here in Karachi. Assault rifle fire is really loud. I can hear the pings of bullets landing in the street. As long as the ... and away from windows ready to answer your questions with the new and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  . I had applied to a Summer Research Fellowship at the University of ... expanding my horizons and becoming at least somewhat skilled in the realm of C ... playing skills at all hours of the day). But I think I would have been ok

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  day. It was fun with the endless barrage of plant puns like these: At ... of your email. So at first, I thought the colors at the end of the ... A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020