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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  hate to bug you with a blog-related question, but you seem to be the best ... about the time commitment. My on-campus job is 6-10 hours per week, and I ... entered the lottery for advising seminars (and may apply for one of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... close friends?" I'm sure that some of the incoming frosh reading this have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever ... 's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Mollie's neck of the woods (Note: as I am being greedy and co-opting Mollie ... understand the answer, it's necessary to understand a little more about dining at MIT. The way it works is, there are a few dorms with dining halls. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  I solemnly swear that I am about to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God. (Woo, who's been watching too ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD ... given the choice of several types of faculty advising. There’s traditional ... about DesignPlus, or D+ for short! As the name suggests, it’s oriented

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... relevant court cases, plus the occasional theoretical or philosophical legal ... months, it felt really cool to have the tools to understand and analyze key

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements ... a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always ... talking. Then, my junior year I thought I had really gotten it right. The ... thought. These are the lifelong friendships they talk about in the movies

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Nerdle, guessing the math equation Primel, guessing the 5-digit prime ... Wordles But the clone that I’ve most enjoyed [annotation note='hello a warning from future paolo, the 2/14 semantle is “stupidly hard” because

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  A few days ago, I was talking with Nisha and other friends, and the ... much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a high school student, this might seem a bit counterintuitive. Isn’t the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ~ next to my little blogger face up there. For the record, I am still ... school and up until about this last August, I ran. The reasons why I ran changed over the years; at first, it was for health and fitness goals. Then

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  completion my real estate agent swung by to check on the progress.  She was ... fell in love with it.  It was the second Tesla I'd ever seen up close and ... afford a $100k car, but I spent the next several years following Tesla and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  6:00 this morning I was tugging my carry-on across MIT’s campus on the way to the Kendall T-station. Let me give you an idea of exactly how early (late?) 6:00 at MIT is. As I made the familiar trek past Mac

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  This summer is the first summer I am participating in an internship ... with the actual work I am doing. Nervous and excited on the first day, I ... . But what occurred was much more than that. I am the youngest intern at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference ... is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why ... due on the same day. These are variables that you have little control

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  's mission to make the world a better place Collaborative and cooperative spirit Initiative Risk-taking, or resilience and the ability and ... excitement, also known as passion The ability to balance your coursework with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program lately for these blog posts. So when two friends in the GEL program told ... common. First, we’d like to introduce ourselves. Please excuse the rather

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Skullhouse, formerly of Senior Haus): "This summer I will be an intern at the Love At Work (LAW) missions camp. The camp, founded in 1993 by Killearn ... Gretna, Florida. Over time the project evolved into a multi

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  up north. Interestingly enough, the family friend that we were staying ... stay over for a night at the Institute. Having heard so many amazing ... the maze of corridors and first hearing about "the Infinite." And, of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007