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• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  you trying to get your Regular Action application in by the January 1 ... now fill out the conducted interview form and we will be sure to get the ... any time on January 1 or before, but try not to wait until the last

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  believe he was attempting to demonstrate something about tension in field ... as mildly painful as getting punched in the kneecaps by someone wearing ... Armstrong? To be fair, we probably discussed this in recitation for about 20

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  to come even harder, but reminding myself how much pain she was in ... photo album and my mom ordered a small wooden box to put her ashes in. the ... picture of all of us with her to the top. I painted flowers in honor of her

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  you want to be when you grow up. Eventually, you'll get there. And it ... up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We used the phrase when we were little, starting at around kindegarden, to

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

  Christmas in December and July

  

  place out in the suburbs, Strawberry Fair, then made our way down to ... the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  work and how physical stimuli get transformed into signals in the nervous system." You get to look at lots of optical illusions and learn why our ... electrodes for rat brains, performed the surgery to put the electrodes in, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT, Time to Step Up? just in today

  

  Youtube video supplements in college admissions As applicants, what are your thoughts?

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  8:02 pm I'm here in 26-100 getting ready to watch the 2008 Latke Vs ... debate. 8:13 pm They are going to flip the ritual package of Top Ramen in ... audience. Only the Hamentashen side is getting little stickers to go along

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  solver in each round get to have another load of integrals dumped on him ... ones I managed to bootleg off the PowerPoint display from my seat in the ... left turn and crashes into my face. Immutably, as IAP drips to an end, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  happier. Replace the words “I have to” with “I get to” in your vocabulary ... life here, but it has proven to continue to define my life in countless ... roommate in Next House (Room 343). His wife went to MIT. One of our board

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... culture[/caption] I'm scared to act as weirdly as I normally do in fear of ... 's who in the following series of pictures, you haven't read enough blogs

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  interested in catching up on some TV. This month, you can see (at least) three ... where viewers choose which of three new science programs will get picked ... . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I ... brainstorming in August to constant drafting throughout September to numerous ... define myself in a world where it grows increasingly harder to figure

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  enviably shiny. It was one of the few ways in which I felt like I was able to ... just can’t seem to get over the thing with my hair.  My nervous reflex ... . It does feel right to look in the mirror to find my hair the color of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  , most of the times they were sold out in the store. I'm not sure where to ... chicken broth. The vegan label on the box was enough to get me sold. I ended ... 'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  they wanted to be featured and I got some poems in response! I absolutely ... and heals and provides to anyone in need. My brain that learns and ... cries. The saliva that pools in the back seems to drown you. It’s your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  things to say about everyone else. Really, we all loved being in that room ... well, because I did get two parts in said play, The Vagina Monologues. I ... , being an actress in VagMo was not particularly taxing. We didn’t have to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016