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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  Memorial Drive between Killian and the river, never will. However, Killian ... It's finally spring in Boston! And unlike the occasional t-shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  all the way back to our room, and went to sleep, preparing for another ... between Vík and Höfn, we visited the Skaftafell preservation region ... are cheap and the landscape is gorgeous. I was grateful for the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  your grandmother about apple pie recipes, and that would be fun for ... acid kiosks in every Super Wal-Mart (between the McDonalds and the one ... mentioned that I was working on a project for ICE-T that involved the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have ... (and no, I'm not going to tell you if I've done each one), but I think ... a club or IM sport 9. Play in an Assassins' Guild game 10. Run for UA

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  year. i added the numbers for primary and secondary 14 majors, so the ... i lost count between 18 and 20. counting is absurdly difficult ... figuring out the logistics for it all but it's going to be happening and I am

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  . As Zach, Ruth, Matt and I were waiting for the T, Ruth told everyone ... .) We only went in the wrong direction for about a block and a half, which ... out the first one for some Q&A.] Last Thursday night, Ruth emailed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  skill of communicating - and persuading - through writing. For many ... , and read the "NO TELESCOPE TIME FOR YOU!" section of the e-mail. I read ... absolutely essential skill for a scientist.  

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  long. You can talk about anything for hours, or you can say nothing and ... groups: My dorm family and my new brotherhood. For you guys that don ... episode). It seems very nice being on west campus snugly between Baker and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what ... , such as washing beakers. So IAP rolled around, and I started hunting for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  foliage in the north, and not for its fruit.  Only the lemon tree has ... reference for me, and their incredible greenhouses, where century-old citrus ... curiosity for the thing he loves, i.e. fruit, and the fact that he seems to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... ’s a balance to be found between brushing off the bad vibes and pushing ... classes, dorm, extracurriculars. Work for both your short-term and long

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  choosing between Harvard and Stanford. And if you’re reading this, perhaps ... was a high school senior, I had visited MIT by myself for CPW, and it ... resources is important, and financial aid is a significant concern for most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  life at college. And my advice for you is precisely that. To echo Paul ... would trade a lot of my As for a lot more steak and lobster dinners during ... /B range consistently for psets and exams, you're probably fine, but if you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  need to contact admission office? If yes who. And for the essays I was ... that's what I want to study and later do in life. Is there a majore for ... options available to you, from delivery, to *gasp* cooking for yourself. And

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  -flopping between various class schedules for the spring, and I haven’t made up my ... for my art and not let it get subsumed by schoolwork and psets. This ... the things we find beautiful—our very perception of beauty, actually—and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush ... grilling burgers for hundreds of people and never washing the pans. It was ... for 9.24 Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System (~10 sentence

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  seeing and doing on campus. They didn’t even register for the weekend ... challenge was an awesome idea for me. I only have classes on Wednesdays and ... of the differences between us, in how I see the world and how she sees

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  infinitely more worth it to stand up for myself and be considered a "bitch ... not to be. There's a fine line between being honest with someone and ... question: What is my best and worst trait? He admittedly didn't answer with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  amenities between the East and West Coasts. As usual, I was complaining about ... want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars ... revolution and its consequences...[/caption] If you were lucky enough to be

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork ... for throwing pottery, various chemical powders for mixing glaze, and a ... again in order for the glaze to melt and solidify into glass. I just got

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023