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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life But make it four

  

  our best to snap a picture every hour of what we were doing at the ... consider this an editorialized or ideal "day in the life at MIT." Of course ... laptop] S: A gift from my sister, who's a freshman at Harvard. [Picture of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  address. At that time, the Class of 2021 will officially be freshmen.   ... myself to a lot of things at MIT I wouldn't have found otherwise! However ... among the many resources MIT offers to get the little bit of extra help on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... work right at the edge of their abilities. But this difficulty is what ... One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  [annotation note="the Canon!"]set of songs [/annotation] played at the end of ... I've spent the last five months living at home on Long Island, New York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  this paper was the incredible depth of making here at MIT. I learned that ... at MIT. Of those who responded, 78% said MIT's reputation for making ... Makers through this paper, and prouder still to work at an institution full of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  whatever we wanted. I stared at the blank piece of bristol paper and thought ... at MIT. These classes aren't for credit and if you're an undergraduate ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  table. You can then walk around the card and look at all the sides of the ... if in offering to the Nintendo Gods, it recognized the card. LOOK AT ... Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  you up on an offer of a free room in Paris!). [] Me on top of the ... I was heading to Paris for all 3 months of blissful problem set ... . Of course not, I responded. You see, there's this program called MISTI

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  , my hall is quite weeb and a significant number of people have taken at ... my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... amazing."]endgame[/annotation], pack my laptop, and head out of next house

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  flag on the Moon. At the same time, and without the slightest sense of ... policies announced Friday tear at the very fabric of our society. I ... community and the nation at large, there are people of goodwill who see the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  be held on campus at the Multipurpose Room of Sidney-Pacific graduate ... , attended the dinner and offered words of introduction. He has been a member ... community. Over the past couple of months, I have been exploring this wild and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT. I arrived at MIT bushy tailed and bright eyed at the prospect of ... Lab at MIT's Center for Cancer Research studying the delivery of small ... would encourage all of you to have at least one UROP over the course of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of ... Ashmont or Braintree (the two branches at the bottom of the rightmost map ... you’re past the gates go up the stairs on your left.   At the top of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  of place at the conference, since MIT is different than many other ... , the Dean of Admission at Knox College, and John, an admissions officer at the College of Wooster. This is the first time for me in a dorm in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings ... forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  , experienced some those feelings even before becoming a parent, because of her work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  talk to me, none of that would have happened. I never was good at ... I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... about it? This is an image from one of my favorite Twitter accounts

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I ... . By the end of the training regime, I was running 4 miles at the ... improved visibly. I could see it in my heart rate at various parts of the run

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  process of admissions. When I invited Stephan'13 to come volunteer at the EA ... weekend. CPW is an intense compression of an entire undergrad experience at ... together in a concentrated burst of effort to do everything that lies at the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings ... amalgamation of everything and nothing all at once. It is also worth nothing ... organization I've been a part of since I first started at MIT. During my freshman

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023