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  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  MIT, the No. 1-ranked university in the nation, according to a ... 's Army orders called. His father is retired from the Army and working as a ... is his name. ''It'll be a huge culture shock,'' Isaac said. So far

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... ; you're not a real theatre kid if you don't know what this is   ... a peninsula that can do both       this one is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  . This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on My ... done, so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, we'll be ... get us a missing piece is by fax. Our Records Office fax number is (617

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother ... covered in cardstock and stacks of cards. I am furiously scribbling on a 2 ... this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive, campus-wide game. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  . 4. Size. I grew up in a town of about 2,000 people and the idea of ... intimidating. Each dorm is its own community, but you also have a tight and ... . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  double rainbows! - but a few that appear in a star-like pattern and radiate from the light source. It's a phenomenon that is so epic, particularly in the context of a chemistry class, that no amount of astonished

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  a plane in less than 48 hours heading back into the land of problem ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... a week meeting and greeting freshmen, holding REX events in B entry

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  your head is that of punks standing on a street corner in a bad 80s teen ... business which brings you this entry a few days late. Now, here is a blog post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the ... "punt" is to put work aside in favor of doing something fun - or more ... . As part of their quest to be hardk0re, they get involved in a hack: a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland ... infrastructure projects. Taken together, the data collected on individuals in a ... bias or discrimination before a transportation-tracking technology is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  . Being a software engineer in a hardware-heavy project is a unique ... problem solving and engineering. In many ways, Formula SAE is a dream our ... This is a blog by Monica C. ‘25 about her experience on the MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  see is a bunch of numbers spinning up and down in preprogrammed ways ... ; certainly, the world i believe that i live in isn’t real. it is a mere ... ago. i created a new world, i booted up survival, walked around in some

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  liquid nitrogen ice cream there! How cool is that? There was a lot of free ... in the hallway: Also a complicated looking, sweet machine: And then ... school and was in a banana costume for his campaign for class vice

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  in the past (clearly, he was unintentionally prepared for such a ... create a phenomena in which "That's so Middleditch" describes something ... Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture ... noticed a contrast in the animals roaming in the wild as my time here passed ... standing in front of McCormick, catching my breath because I had just seen a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  spend time in anther country. It’s difficult to justify spending a ... ’re studying at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid, living with a Spanish ... applied for a scholarship from GECD received one in the full amount needed

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  return as a JC a few months later. And when my offer popped up in my inbox ... , Saturday was just the end of a week-long process. Early in the week, Linsey ... furniture and drove to Walmart and went to meetings. A few days in, I pulled

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  , inevitably, if I put out a shoddy paper, even if it is just a work in progress ... . Blogging is, in many ways, parasocial — a medium where you try to perceive me ... Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... morning, I peddled a small piece of my soul in exchange for my academic ... . Unbeknownst to me, there was an unopened stick of chap in my coat pocket, a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... . ’14 has titled “All Aboard the Rage Bus” and which a few days later is hopefully more funny than unhappy. Here it is: At a pit stop, the lady who

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013