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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  -hazing agreement, which also made me a little bit uncomfortable. MIT is actually ... 'll excommunicate you from MIT, lock you in a pillory, and melt the key MIT's nuclear ... engineering majors (do you know what an engineer is, really?), and a career fair

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  actually knowing where I am. In some cities, this is a very foolhardy and ... ... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here ... : If we don't have any alumni in your area and your interview is waived ... , test scores, etc. They want to learn about you as a person. This is your

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is ... week off. We traversed 10 states, spending ~50 hours in a Kia Soul ... to ask better questions. So it's actually going pretty well, which is a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick game that is like a scavenger hunt and therapy session rolled into one ... one. In four years, you will be in a completely different situation. As

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  . None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should ... music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a ... be solo or with accompaniment but not in an enemble; 2) a one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  because it gives me a captive environment in which I basically have nothing to do except homework. This is especially useful since almost all of my ... I've always said I don't believe in linear time, but this is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  , eating fish and chips is sort of a requirement. Traditional English ... ; friends A commanding view of the Thames The new London Bridge is so ... ) Tower Bridge, for comparison A rather progressive afternoon tea in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  question.   These little things reminded that I was, indeed, in a new ... , but the irony is most people live in the watery areas. Austin is lush ... state is politically diverse. To be fair, I lived in the notoriously

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  order to not to hurt my eyes so, in a way, the new hobby is a rebellion ... in Madison with other recruits and a company representative. In other impressions, the company had a slide instead of stairs in one of the buildings

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  my next point... Pass/No Record is NOT an excuse to get a C- in every ... entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes that everyone else is getting placed in.  MIT is different from other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  advising seminars, because I am in one and I like it a lot! The idea is that ... starts, everyone who opted in is assigned to a seminar and an advisor ... a group of people living in the same place would all have the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  . Love is stored in the soup! I started cooking a lot over IAP, armed ... music is so personal--being able to connect in that way is a testament to ... is currently having on my bank account whenever I walk into a store

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  commonly known here as Reg Day. Morale is at a local maximum. Provisions are ... open, because that is how you make friends in college. I met with my ... told me that, why yes, it is, in fact rather “difficult”... Sweet! (He

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  ’s coming. In its own way, MIT is a conundrum. You can’t always tell how ... did visit a Nigerian restaurant in Boston called Suya Joint (suya being ... paint when describing the odds surmounted in a bygone hell week. Then

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that ... Society, AWS, Zeta Beta Tau, and he is a Discover Biology FPOP Coordinator

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of ... is really not bad at all), just over a quarter done with my third year

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  , in high school, in general, if freshman orientation is clique-y like ... , you have to put yourself out there in a lot of small ways. You have to ... from the week and taking a nap in my room, but Kevin really wanted to go

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades ... /or fun resources. below is our list, composed collaboratively and in no ... yourself with, because right now in your life SO MUCH is going to change SO

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -de-lis. Manchego, a type of cheese, is named for a region in Spain called La Mancha ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... , the reason why I feel like this is a "break", even though objectively it

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 5, 2021