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• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  ), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that ... America. At MIT, Dr. Lee said, the focus of science is to teach you to ... . This actually is a disadvantage during the first two years of med school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... of materials). Here are the five writing assignments I did for these ... a white paper about one of three topics from the perspective of a MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  way. Amongst other things, I’ve been taking pictures of the changing ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a variety of fall-themed Trader Joe’s snacks (the maple syrup fudge is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry ... the side hallway of the 23 suite. I'm looking at it right now. Maybe we should get on that. Anyway, the point of this entry is the tables. I just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your ... school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... choose the type of grades you want to send us. Numerical or letter grades
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  , and that's definitely been reflected in some of the music I've been ... besides music, I've also had the opportunity to take a ton of awesome photos ... evening we went out on to the Mass Ave. bridge and shot a bunch of photos of

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... to the Museum of Science, one to a theater production of "There's a Boy ... to think of at the moment. When high school came around, the notion of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  Like you might have read on some of the other blogs, the EA Telethon ... of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real life. So I asked Marisa, one of the Admissions Counselors (recent MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  on my project since day one, but ALSO the week of our last mandatory ... gives out 1 pset a week of variable difficulty and length. The shortest ... stupider. The lectures are a lot of fun while generally the recitations are a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  might be after the end of the semester']managing everything ... and learning psychology, but this feels a little like the zone of ... the standard sleep schedule of the past few semesters—2 AM to 10 AM, not

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the ... previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the ... labs benefit from the (effectively free) labour of highly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  instantly became acutely aware of the fact that I could not gauge the weather ... only did I become a bit more stylish with the aquisition of the peacoat ... ! And lots of them! So, as you now know, I am from Colorado and the area

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  Communications at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. However, like Dave, perhaps it is simpler to introduce myself as part of the team of people that ... one of the constitutive elements of this new borg-Ben newly arisen from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  I walked through the front door of my local Barnes and Noble today ... series. A thirtysomething dad was scrutinizing a copy of the fourth book ... of the series and stopped reading. "Oh, I hate those books," I say

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of ... . Lunch: Salami and cheese sandwhiches have been the staple of my lunch ... before that one of the hardest things about my eating schedule is trying to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course ... fun carrying two cans of paint down the cereal aisle of the supermarket ... most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the ... . A handful of the many awesome students: Nicole (an amazing young woman ... ), and Aliza (future head writer of the Mystery Hunt). More awesome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really ... length of the dorm with a bag of dirty clothes because I completely walked passed the laundry room without noticing. Seriously, the end of term &

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  . '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This ... Vagina Monologues in my freshman year. An alum of my dorm was the producer ... , according to the piece I was asked to prepare). I immediately become aware of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  Vaporub type of sick? Not once in the past ~seven years. Then a few weeks ... regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is ... onto the next attack: cancelling plans. This part of being sick sucks, in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022