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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls ... reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me, piercings are a rite of passage. Aside from being super cute, my piercings are

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well as a collection of significant places Mitali frequented. I hope you ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... miserable here. If it's not for you, it doesn't make you any less of a person ... much promise you that. Those who aren't offered admission won't be upset

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... was rejected from both of those jobs and accepted to all four Physics Ph

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining. You ... up for preferred dining at a cost of $300 per semester, which simply ... to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars a year. Unsurprisingly

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  's your favorite part of your job?" President Hockfield: "You. The students." They talk back and forth about Sam's dream of becoming an astronaut and ... choice?" President Hockfield: "There is a huge amount of choice at MIT, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Factoid of the Day: I've never paid for food from the MIT Student ... you know. By “you”, I especially mean “employees and proprietors of the ... consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re ... that you can describe yourself in terms of probabilities. If my electrons can be unsure of where they are, then so can I! Unlike my electrons

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  ”, from the University of Warwick. I first read about it in the Math ... and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  diversity throughout history. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ... and Latin America (read more here). At the beginning of the 21st century ... fun parts of MIT culture from the late 1800s, showing how eerily similar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event ... been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  University of Southern California, for instance, had a mission score only 80 ... On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... it any other way. The home of MIT rowing is the Pierce Boathouse ... think of the boathouse as kind of a second home. It’s where half my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions ... work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer ... work hard? Is hard work a virtue or an expletive? Is there a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  , offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  current and alumni bloggers in celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated ... of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  , which offers us a marvelous vintage tour of the Institute, was produced by ... without a certain comforting character for those of us old enough to ... hundreds of thousands of dollars and was produced entirely by a major Madison

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... Hello, MIT Class of 2015! Here are some things that admitted students ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  offered the explanation of his obsession with The Simpsons. I dare you to ... one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As ... meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here.    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005