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• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  'm just rambling on aimlessly! No one at my school blogs, and it would have ... thought I'd try it since I've enjoyed reading the blogs on MyMIT. I can ... , I went out on campus alone. After attending both 3.042 (a materials

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  (think of how many things are on the nanoscale) and its interdisciplinary ... of the best nanotech research around! On the bio-nanotech side ... ’t know what will. My senior thesis project is on nanoparticles and I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  posted. Please review your statement on MITPAY by following one of the ... was snark on "omg this sucks" or "it's 2 am and this problem set is ... wasn't just about what I could regurgitate on a test or what I could

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  got into an early habit of ignoring it. After I turned 7 on 07/07, it ... was about 11:59 PM on 07/06/07, because I am a baaad baad procrastinator ... number two-ish was garlic fries. Did you know there are no garlic fries on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  ? Make sure to show up to our annual party at CPW on Friday The 13th ... Marilee perform with my band at ZBT's fifth annual Battle Of The Bands on ... thought I'd share it here: I'm so sorry that some of you have been on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I ... to have gotten into Yale law school solely based on his own efforts ... undervalue himself based on the value system of those around him. A good

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... Francisco, which was sad because I loved my job. Unfortunately it dawned on me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... project that he'd really like Adam to take on for his master's degree. So ... stranded me on a desert island and forced me to pick two bands to listen to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  handle the foundation before you move on to what you really care about. As ... , academic or not, and you leave for college in the fall, on a plane, train ... be, hanging on to memories of your senior prom and of the countless

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  , it considers itself deprived on less than 8.5 hours per night, and ... with my sister while on a walk, which is to say that the tornado touched ... the size of the font on your blog for comfortable reading or better

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How ... of crowding in campus housing, since freshmen are required to live on ... ,000 has a very great effect on our student culture -- it's really possible

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  , which, believe me, has a long-term impact on your life. It is much more hands-on than most other universities - you work in labs, build roller ... moving to another room on your hall/entry or within your building... or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  other things going on which I will not bother to ennumerate here. The ... came here, I ended up on 5th East, a place with a decades-old culture ... " that administrators everywhere harp on, and then four years later you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of ... details on what it's like living next to Sam Maurer for a summer, as told by ... 4H. Moving on... I mentioned that MATCH has a good retention rate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  roles, gender stereotypes, and sexuality. We will especially focus on ... impact that "Sex and the City" and other media have had on current college ... .017 Urban Space and Society (New) Units: 3-0-9 Focuses on how the spaces of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  think it was insinuated that content on the blogs was getting maybe ... sake of the blogposts. I was known on the blogs for having a lot of ... feeling. I don't think I realized how much I relied on writing to feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep because I'm most familiar with them, but many other makerspaces on campus

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place ... and 6PM. So we had planned on leaving at 4PM to play it safe. So before ... things on campus but I ended up escaping for one day to go on a day trip to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  cycles and political movements; and so on it turns out the answer he was ... changing their mind on something and then being reluctant to change their ... simple: that getting off social media on your own, reducing social media

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  normally ate, and started to have a fixation on eating “healthy” foods. This ... foods that I used to enjoy, and I was starting to have anxiety attacks on ... welcomed in robotics. 10th grade on the other hand led me to a particularly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022