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• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... -word gets thrown around a lot these days, which I think is sort of sad, since ... to these very blogs, as - quite simply - a labor of love. Everyone in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  affect over the student body. Taught in a peculiar fashion, TEAL is the ... weak background in Chemistry, everyday is something new. Covering a wide ... peer review is a class wide one. Three students in the class hand in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in ... of the sport. After a few days of “erging” (an ergometer is essentially a rowing treadmill) and rowing in the boathouse’s indoor tank, we were

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time in college, I never took a visual arts class, despite looking through ... 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

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind ... Ahh!!! This blog is finally happening! I think my bio page gives a ... telling me to schedule a makeup exam. But it’s more like this is not exactly

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  considered me a friend taking time to check in on me. Another common thing I seem to hear alongside these check-ins are "I don't know a Cami without ... , a co-op adventure of sorts. I don't regret any of my time spent in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  sitting in a little metal box, up in the air, with a bunch of strangers, my ... just went back up in the air." Yes, thank you. "Um…this is quite normal ... needed to get from Dulles Airport to Union Station -- which is about a 40

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  work. I applied to this UROP because I wanted to work in a Real Science ... it means working with hot things and metal (which is a big improvement ... graduate student mentor asked me to replace a motor in one of our prototypes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a ... things I think about coming to college is complete freedom in learning to ... in between. You learn a lot of these things through trial and error

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... -D lottery. The upshot of this is that you can make more informed choices in ... ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... . this is a pretty famous ryan ross/brendon urie fanfic and notably the ... ever read in my life. so it holds a lot of importance. i could go into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  is to be respected and taken seriously. There is no doubt in my mind ... people in your life during your senior year. So what is it that GCs do ... . As you can see, your GC has a very important role in the College

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... interesting things, and is interested in the future. MIT attracts amazing ... . And on top of all that, Will is a fan of my field, Artificial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Arts Hacking Arts is a festival and hackathon that aims to create new ... between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  in a very expensive city was difficult.  Boston is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  . Being at MIT is like living in a bubble, but it is definitely a bubble I ... read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years ... ’re trying to pretend they’re still in school. a lot of people have told me ... daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... . Jonny is a PhD candidate at MIT and a writer for Bojack Horseman. Bojack Horseman quite literally changed my life. I was in a really dark place when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  things to come from this group in terms of information is the international ... you might imagine, MIT is near the top in terms of total money awarded ... these schools provide a really top-notch education in a diverse and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  . While totally awesome, this is also a really terrible plan. Luckily, he ... . I'm a complete sucker for historical stuff like that, which is why I ... MIT these days is pretty up on the latest social media, as is

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011