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• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  [annotation note="a game that i'm independently developing in Unity ... Blender! - Blender is a 3D modeling software that you can use to model a lot ... of things to learn for a while and i'm glad that i finally got around

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  . Similar to Spain last year, I'll be living with a host family in Japan while ... ago when I was a freshman in high school, and I decided randomly to try ... 's already the Class of 2013! In honor of what I'm going to do during IAP

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member ... effort to update me on the project via Skype when I was in England and has

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Crusty White Dogs Appreciation Post 💕 🐕 💕 🐕💕

  

  The other day, I was in a meeting for Cru Worship team, and the ... 't have to have one. I will have a crusty white dog. So we're going around ... to do at least a ninth semester. Which kinda bites. It's not that

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... Delhi and Agra, we headed to the host university, living in dorms for a ... money! (1/17 - 1/19) I decided to make a stop in New York City after

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  has a tradition of going out to Fire & Ice, a restaurant in Harvard ... a tendency to mean "close but expensive". There's also one up in ... , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  the bowl, and I put in a new bag. I helped her back to her room, where ... to class. I went through the day in a daze, unable to focus on ... -mails to the Medlinks - the disease spread slightly to a couple people in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and ... just my neighbor. Me and my mom. Return to hotel. LUXURY NUMBER TWO: A

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be ... sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview ... have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... . We generally let them out to roam in a large (but enclosed) section of ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the ... went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  to a boston day in the spring, one of those rare ones with the power to ... other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  your classes, a blank slate in the form of a P that equates a C to an A ... ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  the principal conductor from 1980 to 1993) in a special event called ... So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  you're interested in a club sport, feel free to email the captains of ... This entry is a double cheat -- I was trying to think of something to ... of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  , and you make a good one--to try. You actually can be interested in the ... know--meaning keeping a gallon-sized Ziploc of cookies in my middle ... ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  holding a fantastic event TODAY in our Sukkah on the Kresge Oval. We'll be ... admission-related mailing from MIT. It contained a form to apply for my student ID, a form to apply for my athena username, some instructions on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  less than stellar. I sat in my assigned seat at a table next to Jennifer ... Sometime in the last four years, between graduation and, oh, a week ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014