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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  water for the whole trip. Uh-oh.   11:50 AM, Natick: Mile 10 As a ... drawstring bag for the day, which has in it an iPad, a battery pack, some ... .[/annotation] Since 9 AM on a weekend is absurdly early for most people, the first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  , and I would assume a similar percentage for Japanese as well. Learning ... MIT at around 11pm. Was it worth it? I think so: I went with a couple ... icy air, could not be more fitting for what will be a very tough

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  two years ago i watched the midnight gospel, a tv show where the dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... says things like: “The reason that meditation is so important in magic

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms, a rare amenity that ... act as a social draw for the dorm. Students often leave their bedroom ... cat for a couple of minutes and just de-stress." On the third floor of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  my professors--a move I’m pretty glad I took! Asking for help is ... importantly, as long as I actually learn something, I’ll be okay. A huge ... (Read part 1!) I will start with a disclaimer--there are definitely

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  NYC bookstores, a couple of days before leaving to Russia for the fall ... a trip last February. I went for a weekend to visit a friend, and ... getting to relax for the first time in a long while, with college

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Out! before and after pics of my MacGregor room, featuring a view of New House

  

  empty, 5/25/19 full, 11/3/18this is a cropped panorama, forgive my shaky hands + the warping at the top

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about the last application I read. People make a big deal about test scores

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  knew I definitely wanted to do a spread for Issue 9, and specifically a ... together. For a couple of the pieces, such as the yellow top and the pinkish ... did their hair and makeup. We tried to go for a grunge-y look in both

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  application season is a stressful and busy time for applicants and that sometimes it can be hard to find a convenient time and place for your ... that rush. If circumstances lead you to a last-minute request for an

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  -stage exam for students across India, culminating in a five-day in-person camp ... Delhi and Agra, we headed to the host university, living in dorms for a ... ="https://catmario.eu/"]Cat Mario[/annotation], I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  excerpt from the PE course listing for last quarter. Here's a link to the ... to de-stress and take my mind off academics for a little while. Plus ... our “daily walk” around the track, followed by a vigorous round of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... in the picture, for a variety of reasons. First, the building in the ... the middle. Not totally satisfactory. I got stuck on this step for a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  probably will be for a while. It’s easy to interpret that as lazy. And maybe ... myself - I was too old for this, too grown, too capable to be hurt over a ... realized that. The hate for card games stuck around, though. A friend and I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  involve some more stuff, but don’t worry about that for now."]in a vacuum ... particular duality is especially important for me because I do research with ... challenge, let me tell you about duality – a neat little concept that shows up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  microsleep while standing for half a second, and have a brief, vertigo ... from the masses purely for comic relief. But what drives us bloggers and ... coating every mouthful of cheap sustenance reminded us of the importance of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  features important women’s issues, from a series of articles written by ... departments hard at work and really got a feel for how much effort goes into ... only had a ridiculous amount of fun, but also left the City feeling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  picked out a coat for me. It was beige, but like tasteful beige. It had a ... to be so much material for the lapel that it might just be a waterfall ... 's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of ... (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy), a high-altitude NASA plane that ... sciences, working for New Horizons. She graduated undergrad in '13 with a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015