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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  would have built in my bedroom anyway. The difference this time was that I ... pictures can you fit in a blog post?” The answer, it turns out, is a lot! I ... origami pleated designs I folded in my freshman year. These pieces only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the title of "best milkshakes in Boston" at one point, I'm pretty sure ... asking me questions about specific things I had done in his class. The ... in all my details about that one specific incident. By now I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  problem, I would know the answer because I had done that question several ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... . As I write this, it is one month to the day since I took my 7

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  ,'' Elizabeth Lozada said. ''I just remember thinking it would be the premier ... said. ''Now, I'm finally going where I want to be going.'' He'll live in ... Elizabeth Lozada was in middle school in El Paso, she remembered hearing about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  of Ecuador. Theories about why I was in Ecuador? Study ... kept a journal during my travels (I knew that otherwise I would never be ... I owe you an explanation for my absence (and you'll get WAY more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... ... What do you think? Is my list tight? What would you add or subtract? (I ... , tied with CalTech. I'm not going to bother complaining about the well

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  if I had one of these, my morning would have been different. 9:30 AM ... in differential equations (this man is in his 70's I think). I ... Facebook. In a previous iteration of this entry, I promised a music video

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  really fun stuff. I thought it would cramp Donald’s style if I showed ... looking at the link), so I was somewhat skeptical. But I am nothing if not supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  December – and 2010 – I was briefly back in the UK, now my second home, where ... interned in the city, I simply revisited the street where I lived and took in ... unspectacular). I stayed with a gracious friend in the East End (with whom I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for ... hurricane in Boston since I've been here, other than the remnants which come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  opportunities. I lived in Paris for about 10 weeks during the summer of 2009 through the MISTI program. I worked in an experimental fluids lab at ESPCI ... , I was challenged in more ways that I could even imagine. It was both a

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... since I was interested in learning more about how to administer AFS, I ... after I had logged in to all three to make sure it worked, all of them

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me ... in mechanical box form and if she was a real person I think our ... Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  blog entry like that. I should work on it. Anyway, I would like to ... . Friday: I mosey on over to Logan Airport not-so-bright and early in the ... know much about what I'm supposed to do there. I arrive in Heathrow

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  the first video game I've picked up in months, mostly because my friends ... it on and off when you need to. I used it for two of the rooms in the ... in a cycle. […] I'm going crazy. I can't stop thinking about dumb crap

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  . For the Class of 2011, these are their very first MIT classes. I only vaguely remember my first day of classes at MIT back in the Fall of 1996. I ... for whatever else MIT would throw at me. I like that MIT doesn't just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then, I’ve been ... Disorder” (or “I see everything”) I was tar-trap black in love with you. I ... The last post I made was about my summer, and I haven’t even written

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  't believe it's been one year already. In this intervening year, I evolved into ... going to be living in the same dorm as him. I lived in a triple during my ... plenty of it going in the other direction, lol) I had lots of American

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  taking my tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the ... the cover sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my ... MIT tracking system. What should I do? A: Log in to your MyMIT account and click

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  'll enjoy the moment. I certainly would were I in your place. Revel in it a ... smart and when I called them from the airport as I was leaving in ... and tried to keep it in mind at every stop I made. In a few days this

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009