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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  those of you who are familiar with how saber fencing works, it’s very fast ... You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... , it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  -pop" which to me sounds how it felt to apply to college, haha. Kind of like how ... note="Caleb M. 27 complains that people will call it anything but an ... like it:    Beat The Champ [2015] - The Mountain Goats https

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  on Facebook, Gchat, or Tumblr, there’s a good chance it’s from her. I ... to my native language. Here, Will and Kristina talk about how they ... Chinese before coming to MIT.) How did you first become interested in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• 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 / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  walking long distances. It's the subtle things, though, that are hard to nail down. Have I become more independent? How have my values changed ... you going, where have you been? These questions are hard to answer—how

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  , presentations, you name it. Plus basketball practices started Monday. My Google ... . Other than that, it was a successful trek. This is my 4th year here and I've never actively sought out fall leaves. It's still a bit early for

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Book Fair here) My 20th birthday was pretty perfect. It started an hour ... Knife was “breaking it down with genre-mixing beats” (quoting the event ... ’s special. Company sponsored. It felt really fancy. Like in one of those TV

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  in the long awaited spring sun streaming through the windshield and ... our electronic devices, but instead she was wondering how we might use these tools in better ways in the future. The message was: how can we even

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• 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 / 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