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• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  " Anyways, as we approached the island, I started to notice how tiny it is. It ... five-day-long kayaking/wilderness survival adventure ... Saturday and, let me tell you, it's super worth 25 bucks. On the weekend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good weekend. Because that's how it is in my head, let's go through these in a ... other than that it is very much an experience more than it is a show

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  it was indeed a very very long walk to Linked Hybrid, but every step ... , stressed and potentially freaking out about how this long, arduous college ... as we got on the bridge towards Boston, I knew it was going to be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  make your flight. Even though it’s rush hour, the Silver Line to the ... see whether your ID matches the name on your boarding pass will feel it’s ... laptop bag will tip over, spilling all its contents onto the ground. Then

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), which is best known for its ... . It's otherwise known as the coolest and most useful project ever, at ... parodies, and we also played a long, very hot, and relatively uncoordinated

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  it solved is hard. The constraints are undefined, you get stuck, and ... . There are mats, but it’s dangerous if you fall in a bad way. But climbing ... , your body just takes over and makes you fall off before. It's wild! And a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  so long, and we finally got around to it! It was very good, though next ... , watching it being made, watching animated food being made (particularly in Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  wasting time worrying about how hard or stressful or impossible it seems ... My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  ="which is as nerdy as it sounds"]Reading Olympics[/annotation]and even ... anyone except my family, it was clear that I loved to read. English became ... , I got my first taste of laboratory research and loved it. From there

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  thanked Carl for his company. I'm not sure how to think about my day. It ... eyebrow. "Really? How?" He rubs his hands together and squints. A lightbulb ... , when it was built 128 years ago. After an illustrious career of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  Learning at MIT is not about memorizing formulas, but understanding how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment didn’t work, but rather if you understand why it didn’t work. It's not
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  Hi, Whew, it’s been a long week! But I was thinking today ... know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  the team for the coming year. It was an incredibly tough job to do. With an acceptance rate of just under 9.7%, it's actually more difficult to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... School. Charm School is a long-standing tradition here. Students and ... classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  how long it would take the '12s to notice. We wandered into line and ... girl was Allison '12 and, like us, had totally misjudged how long it ... going on in like 20 cities around the world... and it sounds like just the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  this semester any different? Or is there any good reason it might be? Last semester it was “no” for me, but this semester it’s “yes, I am ... stuff, specifically as it relates to the meaning of “subjective wellbeing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  how I've handled it over the past four years. Four years ago tomorrow ... . Anonymous asked, do you have any advice on how to get to know professors? it ... for it... if this is what you really want." My mom was glaring at me in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains ... .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the interview. First, it is your responsibility to arrange the interview. You

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same. Spot. It made no sense, none at all. Virtual office hours? I’ve literally

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020