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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  the amount of digits we can commit to our long term memory. Therfore, in ... reflection of how amazing God is. I’m in awe. Utmostly, and fully in awe. < ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of ... the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in). Now you wonder what in the world I am doing here, on MIT Admissions blog ... Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  months in the fall of 2020, I lived with my friend Paige L. (Harvard ‘23 ... country team. I experienced year after year of heartbreak in high school and ... in general. I went from barely being able to do a mile in September of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ... and become family. Having moved 3,000 miles to an unfamiliar city, I can

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  things can change in the span of a year. I can't help but think of how much ... long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can't really think of why. Teenage angst? Something I tucked away in the back of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  beginning of the semester, this class felt impossible. a couple weeks in, I ... Next House in the last 30 minutes of voting.   things I didn’t do ... languages for which you can check if something is in the language in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  the US tied with Italy 1-1 in the first round of the tournament, I think ... with history, and I want to get back and see the 99% of the sights that I ... was having a lengthy relationship with Todd Rundgren around the time of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  . While many of them have surely let their pilots' licenses lapse, I can ... happen to masses of people next year, too. I'm sick of airlines who tell ... contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when ... way that mankind buys food from the back of a truck. I assert that only ... more hummus. Keep in mind that I say this about 90% of the things that I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  -internship. I’ll be honest, I applied to this on a bit of a whim. I was sitting in ... the shape of the façade. In the month that I spent there, I got to see ... developments in the middle of the desert. I spent a lot of time just researching

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  manpower to move them in. Now I've yet to comment on CityDays or the Student ... , so I decided to go home early. Tonight across most dorms, in ... kickoff that started in Kresge. The real fun started at about 5 pm on

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• 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 ... with joy. I live here now, right in the middle of if this beautiful ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never

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

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  blends with the sounds of the city around me, and I can look around and say ... been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a ... four miles of the trip stayed within Cambridge; in fact, I had walked the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  '25 and I taking a ginger shot in front of Cambridge City Hall ... L '25 Nina L '24, Paula C '25, Lyne O '25, and I in issue 9 of ... use my final post of 2021 to share the best part of MIT — the people. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  standing in front of McCormick, catching my breath because I had just seen a ... of exploration and much walking, he says, "I can see why you like it ... the bright Sun of the tropical. In Cambridge, I am a student, a friend

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  CPR and defibrillation can increase the chance of survival of someone in ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  the middle of early apps) where I can find more information? My book is ... it is! I have a number of friends who are enrolled in some aspect of ... perpetual motion machine is flawed, as I believe in the laws of physics; and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  Dhabi from the sky- a city in an actual desert:   And I was home ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Part of the President's House in New Delhi[/caption] The ... he was usually so full of. I took this a few days before he eventually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019