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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Once I was at a fancy banquet-type event, one of the ones where they ... Galileo, one of two new kittens on Third East. He and his brother were ... fend of fictional post-apocalyptic bad guys. At one point he asked the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ! So awesome! On that note, what does everyone think of the new season ... 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

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The implication, of course, is euphemistically known as affirmative action. You may ... you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  Today while running westward at sunset, I was nearly blinded by the ... , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  every day, regardless of how busy or exhausted I am, I make at least one ... -growing compilation of “easy simple at-home noodles” recipe reels in my Instagram saved ... organize my entire life top to bottom at some ungodly time of night, I never

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a typical pset might only contain 5 problems, every one of those problems is ... your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  2400. A close friend of mine (who is now at Dartmouth) got a 2350 using ... put passive studying at the start, middle, and end of all my study ... also good at doing the same thing for a wider range of topics. I also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  with trash: At our third session at at A New Day Cambodia, the team of ... technology at the end of our field trials. Compost bin support: Following our ... feedback. Photo: Carolina Kaelin   Students at A New Day Cambodia

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  slow exercise at the center of the floor"]adagio.[/annotation] We also ... I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] actual footage of me[/caption] I’ve been dancing my whole

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  wrote a tiny bit of advice and compiled a lot of advice at the bottom of ... ). The symbol of the New Orleans Saints is called a fleur ... I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  lot of fun, and the thought of performing them at Mocha Show in February ... able to find it last-minute at the start of IAP--it's possible, guys ... up stockpiling a lot of random ingredients that you need to use all at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  -Eritrean Students’ Association, and we had our first transition of power to a new ... for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was ... ! The experience of college has so far been incredibly fast-paced and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  occasional bout of boredom at work. And hence, I discovered the magic of ... it sounded magical. Emperor’s New Clothes by Panic at the Disco and ... song played at any party. And of course, to quote a Tumblr post I saw

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved ... , where you make reference to it. Summarize your points at the end of each ... grade shot up to the bar I set for myself, way back at the beginning of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  front page of the Boston Globe was an article about two brothers at MIT ... (those of you who went to the Closing Remarks and Variety Show at CPW may ... montage of the performances at the Closing Variety Show at CPW this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  -- back when many of them were at MIT, course 9 was just psychology; the ... "Material Girl" at the top of your lungs. I found a pair of 4-inch Steve ... to real life. A GRT is MIT's version of an RA -- I guess at most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  ).  And at this time of year especially, I'm usually back on the computer ... hopping with great things going on.   Come to think of it, I'd rather be at ... two nights at the Marriott in Cambridge?" asked my partner now peering

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  on the monitors. That’s one of the problems the startup I’m working at ... , or to easily be able to make contributions of my own. The culture at ... at Flatbread, where all of the interns got to meet each other over

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  or make new friends at said events! this is also great because y ... clubs were serving food at their first meetings in order to lure in new ... club is just starting out this year, but I knew some of the new members

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  on my project since day one, but ALSO the week of our last mandatory ... Mondays and Wednesdays for recitation (my recitation is at 11am in 24-402 in ... gives out 1 pset a week of variable difficulty and length. The shortest

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006