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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  (when did that happen?!), so we frosh can finally declare a major. I ... pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... tours of some labs. As I'm a nerd for everything neuroscience, can you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia ... useless trivia, then yes, you can. I go nuts over this site. [caption id ... I randomly dropped a piece of trivia onto you. My roommates can attest

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the ... in between the channel-flipping. I promised that in this entry, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  his arms around me in a hug. And I said, "aww, Kriff...I can't crush ... a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  study is slowly but surely slipping away. I can't wait until all 1100+ of ... , have them ready! I was lucky last year in that my host was someone I ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  , because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get ... ’re probably thinking, “Cooking? I’ve never cooked a day in my life! I could burn ... in the kitchen, and it tasted like I had just paid 15 bucks for it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new ... . Considering your work course load and everything else you do at MIT. In short I ... : Floor in Popular Science? Hi – I’m an editor at Popular Science and I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  hours in the day (boxes), and there are so many activities I can be doing ... Writing Autobiography"] 21W.022.[/annotation] In fact, I loved this class ... this class. In reality, this isn’t an insane amount, but other classes I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I ... Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to SanLuisObispo.com. You can read the story yourself here, but I'll pull out some choice ... years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to ... , I can't simply code some instructions that direct a specific phrase ... was just generated in the previous step. Then, I had to feed my code

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... almost 0 planning, and I asked them why they would willingly indulge in ... . valid! I'm a member of one of the two classes that experienced an in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  engage in safe sex, and even have a library of books that you can educate ... basic plan is included in student tuition. This is something that I didn't know coming in - I thought that because I waived the extended insurance

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  working in a veterinarian office and has two older cats at home. "I've grown ... pets everywhere," Nilsson said. "I don't think there's a school in the ... 't bark, and can better fend for themselves while students are in class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  ,[/annotation] I can tell you that I was nauseous once, too. But as a self ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state ... campus. Except I have never in my life had enough self-confidence to be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  websites and learn stuff, i can't do it. i can't do it all. Here I used the ... One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  of my luggage down. Amina lived in a very spacious triple. I wish I had ... , so I took a picture of him as to not repeat pictures in these blogs ... other in years. I'm sure there were other people I knew previously at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely wanted something to do.  MIT is no walk in the park and I wanted an ... , writing and discussion." but I find this definition is lacking in a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  in the gorilla suit jumped in, and I said, "Come on, Mitra, we can ... anything in the world, mental or physical, if I just put some time and training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021