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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  can't believe I haven't been to before. Nicole, I owe you so much for ... STOP: Pearl Art. I needed to pick up some stuff for a Valentine's Day ... : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  platitudes. you can feel that you want to avoid everything mit-related for the ... it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... for a while. No need to downplay that. Well let’s talk about it. One ... This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . You’ve probably got important reasons for wanting to transfer. My ... excellent resource for essay writing. To paraphrase Episode 6: How did your ... The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how ... moved west to Palo Alto for my master's and decided to stay when I ... continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  through EMTing for a bit to help myself. It's all figured out, right? Where ... experiences I wouldn't give up for the world. So it's okay to not know what ... up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  pieces can sell for more on the market) and creating a heat sealer to help ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a ... 'll give me something to listen to while studying for tomorrow's 5.12 exam! ... this list, as an 8.02 exam, psets for 5.12 and 18.03, and being CPW rush

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... of the day, the entire Admission staff met to prepare for our ... exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... about Things to do for the future get over imposter's syndrome ... , i just want to live in a library for a few months and read finish

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  about.  Free t-shirts seem to be for everything at MIT; classes ... had to finally empty out my locker for the first time in four years, it ... have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . If anything, we are begged to ask for help more often. To quote one ... , too. This isn't to say that you should ask upperclassmen for help all ... advice will probably be more directly related to what you need to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  40 minutes for an on-campus information session. I had to very quickly run through things that I normally have more time to explain. For most ... Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  , would provide invaluable clues for developing new ways to diagnose, treat ... possible to pinpoint mutations responsible for cancer. [...] "The technology ... it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  . ---------------------------- That’s what has been hardest for me to remember. That not understanding ... ’t click for me. I had to think so much on the court I could barely move. I ... about the integral and not the rectangles for a minute. It’s reassuring to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  ,000 piece puzzle to leave out in Simmons for people to solve over IAP? If this ... they could to make this a success. Nika made arrangements for us to be ... research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this ... contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  aspects of the artwork which are not tied to those goals. for instance ... have a more holistic appreciation for everything, and we wouldn’t have to ... - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  't bother to calculate for the sake of not feeling old. Here he is scolding me for not blogging in an eternity...) Back to Cena a las Seis, though ... interesting. :) Ready for this? Now jump to this weekend, to Sabrosura, a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004