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• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  of the year frenzy when finals come rolling out, and everyone was too ... , and you no longer feel like the youngest part of the MIT community ... looking forward to escaping the bitter cold weather of Boston. So where did

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn't accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here.  Some of you may feel

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  critical facet of the Indian-American experience. In one scene, where Devi is ... last few paragraphs of the essay. Disclaimer: I didn't really care about the Common App, so I kind of...spliced up some ideas from my MIT essays

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  experiences with the rest of us upperclassmen. We value you as members of our ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign ... growth that has made me the version of myself I am proud to be today

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these ... you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  all about two things: demonstrating the fundamental properties of ... “classical” (non-quantum) limits. Most of the experiments in 6.2410 use quantum optics – think lasers, mirrors, and whatnot. Except instead of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  ="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about ... compounding murders of so many innocent black americans, the protests about them ... stray comment in the blogger slack about the diversity of the bloggers

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  front page of the Boston Globe was an article about two brothers at MIT ... (those of you who went to the Closing Remarks and Variety Show at CPW may ... montage of the performances at the Closing Variety Show at CPW this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... that might pave way for the rest of my life. I got my first shot at ... speak the language of E&M. I think more importantly, I'm creeping

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  the fiery shades of leaves in the trees covered the faintest clouds in ... tourists were writing their thoughts on the columns of Lobby 7. One column ... it back down. I guess I'm confused myself. Here are some of the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  of the mail/website, you can get an idea for the "vibe" of each college. The colors, graphics, and images provide an impression of life here ... slice of MIT. Secondly, the content of MIT multimedia hopefully helps

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them before I woke up and saw them. (Now the rest of this story I wasn ... flushing the fish down the loo, most of the fish just floated down the drain

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  " for the rest of his life), Middle English and the Canterbury Tales (they even got to hear me read out loud in Middle English), the art of writing ... , software, and turn buildings into live Tetris games. The lengths of these

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... write the first draft of the whole thing and submit it to some journal ... much to introduce you to the actual day-to-day character of a place, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  days of work in one day. That is also the bad news... particularly since ... the duals portion of his competition, and would have won first in the ... moguls before the finish line due to a nasty patch of ice. He won a very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming ... get afraid, and have to cope with risk and the limits of safety and your

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  , we have great CPW clips on the Class of 2014 site. If you didn't see Dr ... get that one last answer. Good luck! BTW, if you're not part of the ... lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  the course of a semester), that day's dinner effectively now costs you ... to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you can effectively tack on $12 to the price of your restaurant meal. This

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  i was going to write a post about Thanksgiving and Drop Date and not dropping 18.02, but it was boring. So I deleted it. Don't complain; I've spared you the trouble of reading something you really wouldn't have wanted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006