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• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  exactly did the rest of our season go? In my last update, I regaled you ... results of that week. Tuesday: 2-1 win against Coast Guard Thursday: 1 ... Institute (WPI)  With our Saturday win against WPI, we officially became

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  the eventuality of winter break. [caption id="attachment_95733" align ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... said than done. tooling At the start of the semester, I tried to take

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  of science. It speaks volumes that an institution like MIT has a master ... Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... quantum physics and thermodynamics. Three of my professors have Wikipedia

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything ... where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places. But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The Sophomore Slump some notes on (and from) my classes this semester

  

  , it gets thrown around in a lot of different contexts—from music and visual media to sports and, of course, academics. I've always wondered how this phenomenon, which sounds fairly specific, pervades such a variety of

  • by Nicholas R. '29
  • October 14, 2026
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  daily journal to varying degrees of success. I tried to keep a diary when ... I started this blog post in the summer with the intention of posting it then, but the lists kept growing. Here are some of the things I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  french fries. The brothers of Theta Xi saw our excitement and offered to ... . We offered them some of our surplus cake, but they politely declined ... Of all the numerous documents bestowed upon prefrosh checking in for

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  conclusion that I want to start eating healthy and keeping track of what I am ... healthy foods and keep track of my calorie and vitamin and nutrient intake ... going "take vitamins!" (Hi mom.) As a part of my healthy eating craze, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  little space as possible offers the best protection. Both of them were ... year full of blades. If you are interested in supporting the victims ... of someone’s grandparent being shoved, beaten, or slashed goes viral

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... screenshot of how your MIT grade report looks like online. Note: Your grade

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... -day weekend and every single day of the weekend was the most beautiful day ever ... statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of ... with the list of "deal breaker" variables. Who was I and what was

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  ’ve heard of IAP, or Independent Activities Period, MIT’s January term in ... nights spent laughing on the floor of someone’s room. rather than just ... MIT’s month of “choose your own adventure” mode looks like would be to

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... afraid of upsetting the chinese government, and so on   ii. of ... , so i will try to give a concise summary based on my understanding of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  Institute," I must admit that I would have thought to try that. So after I ... how painfully obvious that was. Of course you have to do your best. How ... time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012