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• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  immediately qualify for Paxlovid (the best antiviral treatment we have), but you ... recently for the class of 2024, and i swear all the sophomores were dropping ... . you know that feeling when one side of your nose is clogged and the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  perfect game for them because the humor is right up their alley and the ... group of friends, this is the movie for you. The Exigency So Raymond ... show, so I'll just put this here, along with my short pitch for the show

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  essay is cute and allowed me to save my trauma dumping for the extra ... wrote. Disclaimer: this is not admissions advice per se but maybe the way I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  [annotation note='The past two years I had been a counselor for the Course 6 ... no. Also, my goals for the month. Yes to JOMO, no to FOMO ... performed at Harvard's An Evening with Champions (EWC) for the fourth time

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  ). Even though Elgin is northwest of Chicago (and most northsiders are Cubs ... 'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had the ... parents and brother. The White Sox haven't been in a World Series since 1959

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar ... of duct tape Why Italian food is the best What is the average ... running around looking for the light switch, then ten minutes running around

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  five hours straight the other day. and the best part is that other people ... this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to ... hallmates occasionally, and my boyfriend. but IAP is the time to catch up on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  conclusion, where, for the first time, there wasn't one. Was it a ... that got us through high school to here. We become "jaded" is the ... for an elective at the Harvard Summer School. I took out my first

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  around the U.S. and it's entrepreneurs, will be premiering next year. I always liked the idea of reality TV - capturing real moments with real people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  correspondence. Here it is: So, mainly at this point I am very excited for MIT, but ... , I was well aware of the fact that MIT attracts the best and brightest ... . For example, almost all the people I've talked to have been to the IMO

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... miss listening to Indie pop. I miss discovering all of the music that is nostalgic for me now. I miss the witty lyrics and heartfelt chords that I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... moonlight’s full, Only at the BLOOD MOON FESTIVAL." FRANK: I'm just going for ... left for the Fest. As I walked down the Infinite Corridor, the 251-meter

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  , and is also the best dining hall in our opinions).  Sometimes, we would ... courses were always the same). Having similar academic interests is not ... different. Granted, we’ve had this option for the past three semesters and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  afternoon. This is the weekly magazine The Nation. This is the first half of ... favorite section is the science notes, which include Charles Darwin ... on the brightness of burning magnesium, a call for more systematic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  departments, this task is called the “Senior Thesis.” The requirements for the ... in the lab. Designing nanoparticles for cancer imaging is the name of ... ’s main thesis advisor is a research scientist from the Institute for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the ... singing group within Next House! Our main goal for the group was for it to ... actual thing. Like, for lack of a better term, W T F In the beginning

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  at 9am Get ready for the day and eat a protein bar Leave the DPhi ... whatever time until 4 or 5 Go to ZBT for dinner Go back on the van If ... blogging (this): 2 hours The thing that sucks is that I love doing all of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  't get things done. The way it works for me is that when there are more ... company here is some of the best. I don't think the busy leads to miserable ... For those of you who missed the blog post subtitle: "You might fit

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collecting information about my friends im like if a corporation loved you

  

  (the presumed migration pathway for hot jupiters and hot neptunes) doesn ... solution. pennsylvania is the mushroom capital of the world there are > ... natural quartz needed for the manufacturing of all advanced computer chips

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 30, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while ... /change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central ... ) where that is a central object of concern contemporaneous with the new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020