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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  demonstration in Solid State Chemistry. I returned to Random Hall in a numb state ... , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... -pressed to find a single admissions officer who could. Because you are not ... impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  raising live chickens in my yard. I pulled out my camera to get a shot of ... invariably comes up to a single-digit number. In this case, my table was ... 've learned that groceries actually have to be purchased once in a while. With

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  using their talents and abilities to actually making a difference in the ... listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  suppose. First way to enjoy a spring in Cambridge: Find the appropriate ... rainboots with a heel because I like to feel tall when I stand in puddles I am ... In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style. In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  find coding events on campus, whether self-learning or learning to make a ... a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle ... can throw a #sorrynotsorry at me.) One day a week, we meet in the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this ... students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the ... classes, I’m a lab assistant for 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  , sometimes more than once. I felt like a quitter when I left things I loved to make time for new passions, Struggling to find ever-elusive balance; pj ... ’m going to love designing toys, experiments, problems without a doubt. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  ’ve started to feel the weight of it a lot more recently. In some ways, I feel like I’ve aged enough in a year at MIT to have gray hairs coming out of ... read a novel until I fall asleep. And every time I find myself wanting to

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  walking into a T stop only to find that the train is just leaving and the ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... transportation. Every day, after finishing up a long afternoon in my UROP lab, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  adventures on this map of Cambridge/Boston...hoping to find a sense of ... : Breakfast with a friend from high school. So, clearly, there is no excuse to get bored in Boston! It's such an amazing city, with so many things to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked: 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case ... that being in a fraternity gives you access to a lot of upperclassmen who

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  in London, so decided to make a trip out of it. Unfortunately, I'm not ... dinner; you should make new plans together. You might find yourself in a ... sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  course I didn’t want to sacrifice a single hour in Taiwan, so I decided to ... there is a line. A LONG line. Just to get to the Self Check-In counters ... finally motioned to me over. It felt akin to a deserted lifeboat floating in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  playground. And it felt pretty darn cool because I was no longer in a rush to ... nice to live in a more relaxed East Campus in the previous months. I ... fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  projects. Now that I'm going to graduate MIT in a year I feel like I should ... (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... family. "80s are good enough," my grandma once said to me in high school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by ... be really great and that it was going to be out in theaters sometime ... excited and impressed to find Killian Court decorated with beautiful banners

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  helpful to you. We had a great crowd in Miami. The Miami meeting was one ... Yesterday, I held a Central Meeting in South Miami, Florida. We were ... expected, meaning a number of folks had to stand. To those of you who stood

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A ... other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006