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• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  , then, isn’t one of technology: The Indian government has actually ... took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do ... follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... of a lack of vehicle I should probably hold off on skydiving for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  at The Institute totally drives homesickness out of your mind simply ... this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of ... my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was ... at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  Shire, floor 4West, Next House, Cambridge, MA. This weekend was, of ... I'm able to have because of you, as well as the future I have ahead of ... 'm thinking of you and the family. I'm thankful for all the new people I've met

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  next to the Page lab on the fourth floor of the Whitehead Institute, so I ... message of love! Is Madeline here?”—Madeline raised her hand—“Would you like to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute ... misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to about MIT's supposed lack of fun, but also because I used to think the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  of an institution determine where you apply. There are only three ways ... Name: Bryan G. Nance Job title: Director of Minority Recruiting ... University, 1989, BA Sociology (Home of the Spartans!); University of Delaware

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  find myself and some degree of serenity. As much as I'm jealous of the ... I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about ... "]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce back by tomorrow, when a bunch of my friends are going to Fire and Ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  and of varying degrees of tired or not, walking forward at a welcomingly ... . I had expected something worse, or at the very least, some degree of ... Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  part of 6.2600 (Micro/Nano Processing Technology) and 6.2410 (Quantum ... that spans many iterations of a particular technology." The most useful ... 6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend of mine approached me with an idea for a ... college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... 's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  the language out of respect to the original post."]Two weekends ago[/annotation] was CPW, or Campus Preview Weekend. A lot of really neat events happened ... [/annotation] with homework and exams. I have a lot of half-written blogs that I want

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  technologies. I'm quite out of my element here, but I'm getting a lot of help from the law students. The two of us engineers are trying to pull our ... is a tad bit lighter: Below is a rundown of my classes this

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  spot of all time, but I did lift the title of an obscure yet underrated ... , having just wrapped up an STS UROP, now contemplating a second major of ... the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  varying degrees of notice (1 day-5 minutes). Left: Well, these guys kept ... . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all-time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of Covington, as well as In the Heat of the Night, certain scenes of Remember the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005