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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  could have a contest, how much cultural enrichment can you get for free in ... time and find a nice, good, clear picture of yourself for your ID, you ... you several times a day for the next four years). So there you have it

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  , preparing mentally for the arduous rides ahead. After a particularly hilarious ... cart for a store fixture, attempting to remove items for their own use ... for the day’s riding. For me, the first day consisted of a ride up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk ... anytime I need just a few minutes of peace and quiet or when I need to clear ... reading applications because they are a lot like doing jigsaw puzzles. When

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact ... close over my head—how ironic for it to happen after a few days of ... acting as a role model for others. Get involved, network, talk to people

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  't know of a better expression for this than "experimental physics boot camp". This class is notorious for taking a LOT of time. In partners, students ... Eric G. '14, who's been a good friend and pset buddy of mine for a long

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  Having read MIT applications for a long time now, I know that MIT applicants and students are quite a talented bunch. As such, I try to look out ... lack of standardized programming and a generalized methodology for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  by a friend. How did you come up with the name for your blog? This is ... actually recognized it). Here's the passage: "This is not a land for gods ... not a good place for gods because it is too dynamic, too wild and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  , although a bad score can hurt -- for example, the average engineering ... write a billion essays like you did for undergrad; most programs require a ... Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... hands to answer a question. I helped volunteer for that competition, and

  • by Phi A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  'm still checking for grammar and stuff frequently, so it's got a fair amount ... lowercase for a given word' principle. (btw if you're reading this i'm sorry for stalking your blogs for ten minutes ;;) anyway, those were a lot of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  felt like there was a search for patterns I really enjoyed there. It was ... under the rug, but many people also manage to balance a passion for scientific thinking and a passion for "HASS" (Humanities, Arts and Social

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP ... in [annotation note="and look out for a joint post from us when this ... Comics and Sequential Art I signed up for this class on a whim after

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students ... experience by asking for more leadership opportunities and establishing a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  you yearn for a simpler time, a quieter time. A time when the internet ... text but apparently there is a low-res version for people with speeds ... ? But apparently a website that failed to inspire respect for an

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out ... rearrange the modular furniture like giant Lego blocks. Perfection itself as a dorm. Well, maybe not quite perfection. After all, Simmons isn’t a cat

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  gigantic balloon tower... design elements for a stunt show.... create ... exhaustion. I couldn't have asked for a more wonderful bunch of people to work ... students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  chem class for the fall semester, Professor Schrock gave a lecture ... : I knew it was a good idea to ask for a camera for my 18th birthday ... Because my roommate is in a sorority, she receives a whole slew of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Period, is a special four-week mini-term full of interesting, fun and ... Food: Ancient and Medieval Cooking, Experiencing Health Policy: A Week in ... activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  do a "Web Lab" for 10.302: Transport Processes. What that means is we ... " on a heater, and let it heat up for 20 minutes while the a computer recorded the temperature. Sure, that sounds pretty easy for a lab experiment

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... ) Tower Bridge, for comparison A rather progressive afternoon tea in the ... Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it was reconstructed atop a man

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005