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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  I got this postcard from my dad a few weeks ago. It's funny how when ... when the bus doors open...it splits! Demonstrating how your bus is ... when he said "I've never been to Iceland, but I do believe it would be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  I know it's been a very eventful week for you guys, waiting for decisions and dealing with the mail mixup. But it's been one of my better weeks all term, so I thought I'd tell you about it. Sometime early Sunday

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  about how useful it is and 98% of participants get a summer job! Finally ... of the year. It was pretty intense, but twice a week after work I went ... students. I have always been passionate about food (I think it comes from my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  reason why it took so long was because the orgo reactions on my 5.111 pset ... Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to ... 15-paged chem pset and turned it in at noon. That said, and I did

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  you are probably thinking that it’s way too early to be thinking about ... ’m still young enough to remember what I was thinking as I wrote them (it’s ... it and b. It timestamps every single edit you’ve ever made on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  up and moves along, you race alongside it, barely mindful of how much ... idea! It works!” “What?” Nick replied. “How?” So I showed him how it did ... I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  fluorescent glare in the school library, to eloquently preach about how the ... hour-long presentation unwrapping the foil from the Hershey”s chocolate ... the academics that he doesn”t feel much affinity for otherwise. It was a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  your research mentor. It is unlikely that if you submit a complete research paper that we will be able to have it properly evaluated during our process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  same as it always does: good and slightly like plastic. But my granola ... the trek. I didn't know how hard it would be, and somehow both the ... ; it sounded grueling and fairly painful. Apparently when they finished

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  Holmes, and had Popeyes. It took eight hours, but it was so worth it! I got ... ombre color that matched my winter jacket. It was also a relief to have my hair in a protective style for a few weeks and not have to think about it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  situation does not have to be your everything, but it definitely helps your ... how you handle 3 extracurriculars on top of a 4 class schedule: is it ... go on, a lot of these things will change and so it's always best to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  : I imagined, as realistically as I could, how it would feel to be ... Joonho K. '20 (2019) it’s okay to be nervous, anxious, excited, whatever ... a playlist, and go out for a long walk. Your air may not be as crisp

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  any class token--it's one of the most recognizable rings out there. It's a pop culture icon. It's a beacon of kinship between alumni. It's an ... 's sophomores, it's a reminder that we're already halfway through our time here

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  weird) and basically stretched all the way back to Johnson. It was a long ... EDIT, 6/11/06: Due to some server problems, this entry and its ... weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  a lab setting, I realized that I really despised how cold it felt ... , despite enjoying liking coding and writing it out and basking in the satisfaction of finally understanding something, it's been relatively

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  and how we would love to see it change.h This aspect of MIT truly meant ... at once that you can't get anything out. It's like you have 500000x ... can't invent it); however, until then you will just have to settle with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  understand how these little lizards can defy gravity. It turns out that gecko ... and in the peritoneal cavity of live rats. Lo and behold, it worked ... working on taking this invention into the clinic, where it can be used to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  still potentially travel to the region. no one could predict how long the ... . it obviously didn't happen because of COVID, but since I'd been looking ... it in 2021. my acceptance transferred over a year, which made for an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  down, and they found out just how useful it was to everyone else. Today ... 's weird silhouette, but maybe, like me, hadn't thought about why it looks ... is in good condition, but the paint on top of it is old and peeling

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020