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• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  process, how was I going to put up with several dozen more? It tends to be ... virtually? How do we do recruitment now? And I've had to deal with these ... One It's weird how we do so much that we don't stop and think about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  we play and suggestions on how to do it. Several months ago, I joined the Wind Ensemble for 3 reasons: I didn’t want to forget how to play ... listen to an NPR piece here if you’d like to know more about how and why it

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... most represented, and what is the most populous country to have no MIT ... to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  foundation. Ask any young Cantabridgian to expound on collagen, but s/he may not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes ... [by Patrick '09] I am another Biochemist coming from MIT to Cambridge

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how you can get to know MIT better are these very blogs. Actually, Blogger ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ork_hard.shtml I think I can, I think I can (Bryan): How do you have time to have fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... , because I go to cheerleading practice and throw people around and get muscly ... lost about 5 pounds last term on what I like to call the "75 Unit Diet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  how easy is it to set up?" MIT has cross registration ("crossreg") with ... interesting to see "how the other half lives." I was grateful for the ... applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  affair with linguistics was born. The book discusses how language came to ... see how "year of" could easily turn to "yearof," much the same way ... 's easy to see how verb conjugation arose the same way. English seems to be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  how much you can handle on your plate in addition to your classes.  Join ... close with the people around you.  Watch how you can allocate your time to ... Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  , there was just something about coding that clicked with me. IDK how to ... community's amazing, and I got to learn how to write a scientific research ... classmates. When I went up to my recitation leader to ask him how to become a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... now” If you had said that statement to any of my classmates from high school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  of years, but to answer the question “how did I start dancing” the only ... began to learn how much there was that I didn’t know. So rather than ... dancing to outside of MIT gave me even more perspective about how much

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  . Actually it was wonderful to see how many things had stayed the same, little ... by how immediate it was—crossing the threshold, I mean, of the door to his house, and how rapidly it transported me to that period four years

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  experiences. When I applied to be a blogger, I partially wrote about how I enjoy ... whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania, visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  job detailing what ingredients and how much we needed to buy for our ... you were curious, you should look up how to cut an onion (especially the ... , though, so when prompted with the option to buy a meal plan for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  -deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non ... , 'Futility.' 'How best can we serve your will?' To which YISUN replied, 'Kindly ... feelings; it's how I came to the word mudita, for example. In France, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  ? How can I prove that I am good enough? I still do not know to this day ... sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between ... across to the other side of the country. I've been in love before, where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  ’ve faced or something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you ... med school), but I certainly remember how MIT History taught me to ... "Don't give other people essays that you won't be willing to write

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  ’m ready to stop focusing on how my community will no longer be living on our ... my floor and how I won’t be able to be around my friends anymore made ... sense, I guess; I DID manage to cram two months worth of memories into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020