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• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  off the front page is grape-flavored anything (it's not even a flavor, I swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently ... . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  grandparents' dingy silver car and bracing myself for the nervewracking car ride ... wanted to stay in southern California for the sake of my grandfather, out ... school that fit me, the only school for me. I cried for hours when my mom

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  's start over. The other day this fabulous idea for a blog entry came from a ... habits was probably the hardest part of transitioning, for me, into a ... . (That part's the gravy!) MIT is a hard place - I can say that with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  on the third floor of Walker Memorial and cry internally for 50 minutes ... for the midterm, I realized that there’s really no way around it. The grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  of the MIT iGEM team. What is iGEM, you may wonder: “The International ... and freshman year is the time to build your foundational research skills ... Ballroom Dance team for the past 3 years, oh, may be two, since I was away

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Herd," who constantly competed for the top GPA and class rank whenever ... for the prestige), and would often belittle me and make me feel dumb in ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  other places to drop some dough for a bite to eat. I'll leave the fun of ... on the recommendation of the advisor for Active Minds, one of my ECs. I walked up to the counter and asked for a banana and Nutella crepe, and one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  (the one in the United Kingdom, not in the United States where MIT is ... initiatives (misti) runs global travel experiences for MIT. they’re the primary ... , you get the point: my home base this summer is a remote place out in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  a staple for the part of China my dad is from. The food was great, but ... for the following realization to hit.  WAIT THAT IS ACTUALLY THE ... A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, is also known as “that other place across the pond ... participating in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange Program. For those who are not aware, MIT has organized an exchange program with Cambridge University for the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the ... with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... quarter mile from French House to the heart of campus) for... Meeting #1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in ... received earlier that week from two of the six UROPs I had applied to for the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  the long, introspective part for a later entry, once I've had a chance ... into the MIT family, but one is no less significant than the other. So ... nostalgic, as soon as I'm ready. Stay tuned. -B P.S. This is the 2500th

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  ’t going anywhere. this is my third summer in boston, because i was here the last two summers for a summer camp over at bu, just across the river ... friends just having fun together, for what felt like the first time in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  for the MIT Cross Country and Track teams, it’s a whole different ... goal of the GEL Program is to develop leaders, not recognize them and ... applicant is interviewed, and Ed says the interview reveals a lot about the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  the score from my last test. Can you say "fail?" I can! Oh, 2.005 is ... it, is easily accessible by you. Feel free to explore and check out the ... split between that many people. After your order is finished you have the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  achieve it, the result is the same: a couple of 24 hour periods each week ... interval training for the first time in maybe a year or so. Now might be a ... long time. At least, that's how it was for me in the act of running. Once

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  Invocation for Beginnings" (which is a fantastic video but a bit profanity ... , discarding the latent fear that the average prospective reading this is going ... Introductions are generally a clunky thing for me. There's some basic

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  , Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen ... fast as we could and checking the blogs for "answers from the prefrosh ... (that's being awake 57 of the last 60 hours). For those of you who come

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  of sudden, the serenity is abruptly halted by the entrance of the snake ... is an aural duality, a good versus evil, present in the music. The ... [by Shelby Heinecke '13] This past Friday, the MIT Symphony

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010