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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... , the flash mob became a relevant subject in my life. I started attending ... group called the "Banditos Misteriosos" runs flash mobs in Boston. I got

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member ... community and collaboration. In 2012, iGEM spun out of MIT and became an

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  “yep, no way I would get in.” Since then, I’ve been in 8 full dances ... classes number-wise to double major if I had taken them in the same area ... I’ve taken a 9-unit Drawing class and been in a 6-unit music ensemble

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  would inevitably meet our untimely, grisly demise. I was wrong - that was ... himself over to your house and would let himself in and begin eating your ... thought of MIT because they'd find it fun too? I actually do believe in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  just "not to live in a cardboard box after graduation") would be to ... time I was stuck in an airport overnight? The next day, I and 1,203 other ... . 170 were Haitian. 441 were Cuban. I love living in Miami. (I mailed my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it ... lectures. I am unsure of whether videotaping is common, but my classes in ... previous coursework and internship in pharma where I can clearly follow the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any ... (because then I would’ve had very slow WiFi, which would’ve made me rather ... Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  lake and decided that I would walk one hour in one direction, then turn ... night to buy me A Night at the Opera (ah, the dark ages before iTunes). I ... their final album, Made in Heaven, which I own. I own pretty much all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  , by the way"s it was wrapped in, the criticism still stinged. When I ... trash" to "barely acceptable". I knew that the puzzle would be poorly ... close enough to that. I justify it in the sense that, having a regular

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These ... actually cook, I envy you a lot). Do things you’re gonna miss in college ... . Words cannot describe how much I miss the In-N-Out Double-Double with

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention ... ". So there is an FPOP for entrepreneurship! I looked up their website to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  speech, but just by being in college, I'm beginning to understand it. What ... , and learn from that. I’m here to learn about other people and in the ... individual personalities. Personally, I get excited being in a conversation

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  said. But they would've said it if I'd asked. Totally. ... the people I polled about CPW, the one event they said meant more than ... ! (for concerned parents, I can pretty much guarantee you there will be no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  seven people in it, one of which I knew prior to the program and five of ... " and we would yell back "HEY UPOP." My group is the table in the ... years old now! In celebration of my dad and I becoming certified EMTs

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington ... Counterclocks? We jumped at the offer, even though it would cost dearly in our own ... -for items in dozens and dozens of households. This is what I love about

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  everyone else would eat potato chips and brownies, I would cite her "fact ... , so anyway, Sam thought he would be super cool. Wishful thinking? I ... : Actually, I would even wait 3. :: Sam bangs head against the wall :: HAHA

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... .” Abby and I stand in awe. What is this “fall clothing,” and do we need it ... that would require somebody buying me spray paint (because apparently you

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I ... pursue in math/science. 4. I'm worried that I'm never going to find a ... 't get in, because I'm not a genius. 5. Can I have some life advice? 6

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... , especially in proportion to its massive concrete parking lot, and I am suddenly ... carefully curated trees. I am pragmatic in a Trader Joe's. I know exactly

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022