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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  bike lane etiquette and DON'T WALK IN THE BIKE LANE.

  

  Boston is a wonderful city with many beautiful, interesting features that makes living here a new experience every day. One of those things is ... accessible from anywhere in the city, and bike lights at traffic stops, my

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • July 21, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  a 1,000 mile drive from Colorado to Oregon. Central Oregon is pretty ... enables cities to function and people to get from point A to point B. Even ... /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun ... smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  everyone* knows each other sin limite/ebony affair/cpw psa; class of 2030 discord plug

  

  other from high school, or even before. I learned there's an ecosystem of academic competition kids, from math, physics olympiad, research competitions ... program), so more adMITS know each other from those programs. Before coming

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 9, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... publishable results, we'll produce a collaborative paper. From the Crowd ... MIT PRIMES (a free, year-long after-school research program for high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  well from a surprisingly small pot with very little attention. Here is a ... tropicals, almost like it's a little ornery about having been grown from what ... trees grow multiple species shielded from the snow, a destination

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  , which is everything I could ask for from a class this semester. 6 ... a good break from the endless numbers and equations that my technical ... right :) I’m currently on break from a cappella until the fencing season

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  disciplines that attracts students from a variety of majors. For the first time ... 'll be benefiting from the work of a ton of other scientists that helped ... day, you're treating human patients that come from a variety of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  , let's focus on one experience from this last year, a choice I keep ... This, potentially, is the longest I've gone without a blog entry ... to help you learn about MIT. Since getting home from MIT I've had the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  summer just to get to Cambridge.   I have a lot more to talk about from ... extracurricular, MIT Libraries, a visit from old friends, new room… But I have to ... the first posts by our first-year bloggers. There’s a common theme: MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  got a sweet view of the Charles River from my summer housing assignment ... home, I'd just be playing Minecraft all day. So I set myself a basic ... semester a little less hellish, and (3) exploring Boston and Cambridge. UROP

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  to directly apply the skills we gained from doing so to a UROP at MIT ... UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... it’s a great opportunity, and it almost felt like an MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  , meaning it goes from very small to 15.5' in a snap of the fingers. *snap ... of the bathroom. Here's a shot from above And a ... run, so we grabbed up all of our gear, borrowed a table from my dorm

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a junior or a senior there and was blown away by the setting. "Absolutely ... other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  also a (altered) clue. As often as I can, I'll be taking lyrics from some ... . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road ... fam for a bit, so I flew home a week early. We went "up north" for Labor

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large ... doors inevitably open. Dealing with disappointment If a letter from a ... those who leave comments are applicants, I would love to hear from some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  Exceptional Promise" (for which she was awarded a $1,000 scholarship from The ... program She has great talent as a dancer, but what separates her from others ... Spackenkill Student is a Youthful Leader April 28, 2006 By Jeremy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  Pearce, a chemical-engineering major from Chicago: "It's marketed as--I don ... that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference, you can see the article here. Basically, what I gathered from the

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel ... First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked: "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of the fall semester. In case you aren't from MIT, just as general ... a long blog about both, but I felt it would be better to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021