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• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  Asia, but I thought I'd share with you some photos from my trip. The ... do any work on my trip (though I do hope to do a work-related visit to ... . It was the one locale on my trip that my grandfather said I must not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see what major issues are really pressing down on me and requiring my immediate attention. Yes, there was a point in my life where 75% of the e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  Program, commonly referred to as UROP, which gives me and my fellow ... discovery. I spent my first few months on campus checking the UROP website and ... good an opportunity as any to figure out if biology is "my thing" and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  the Indian subcontinent in the film. Peace has been on my mind a lot ... . There's a pretty big stack of folders on my dining room table. Just how ... interviewer have told us, it is my job to summarize your application on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  are holding cool events and workshops. IAP is my favorite time of year ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... ."]MITOC winter school[/annotation], worked on my plasma physics UROP, and spent

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  to be truly amazing. Some of my favorites were:  the Afro ... ’ve studied systems of oppression and resistance in my personal life and via MIT ... and the environment. I can feel that WGS.245 is pushing my learning

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  )[/caption] Much to my dismay, the instructors conveniently had an explanation for ... them at the Glass Lab, I ensured that I’d be the first to get my hands on a few of these mysterious confections. Lo and behold, my dietary

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  Wave/Outrun" playlist on Spotify. Prompt: "How many people live in your hometown?" My ... to fill the remaining space instead. My favorite one is the alien ... 've read in the past year alone so it's hard to decide, but some of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my ... with my friends. Unlike many MIT students, we chose not to go to Puerto ... and projects, I had gotten an extension for a paper for my [annotation

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to ... looking forward too, after all! but… but it was difficult. i lost all of my ... floorpi culture, and i should do my part to make sure this piece continues

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  I've been very busy this semester; this is entirely of my own accord ... .[/annotation]In contrast to Mel's remarkable recovery of her sleep schedule, however, my ... Thursday night; the majority of my classes have work due on Friday, and I had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  (infamously) asked me that night if I wanted my own pie. This is what I get for allowing her to see me binge dining hall food.[/caption] My freshman year, I ... me a lot about what qualities I liked and disliked having in my social

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and ... 't. My brain was secretly thinking something along the lines of "oh, well ... , to take up space in my life. I want it and love it for itself, not just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  bad. Well, it really wasn’t. During my lunch break, I went to Walker, and three minutes later, I got my flu shot. And I was awed. The flu ... . One of my friends on the floor I live in stuck his sticker on his door

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  relate to my experiences as a wildly emotional gay boy who thinks too much ... for it…right? So I did. I messaged my friend who had a friend who wore ... I wasn’t. If you couldn’t tell by the fact that my first definition

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my ... field to love, Political Science, and thinking of my thesis experiment now ... find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... several pieces of paper. This really hurt my brain at first. It took awhile ... hours and pestered people for help.” I felt so proud of my (veritably not

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  what's going on both in my life and in MIT at general! (and one day I ... what my first year here was like. In the video I skipped explaining a few ... think I just enjoyed it more overall! Lastly, I had my CI-H which I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  weeks to see if you like it.” ... Oh my gosh.  ... free...Free personal ... wanted more in that moment than a continuous data stream documenting my ... compilation of a month's worth of tracking data on my sleeping variance

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  November 20, 2013. Precisely 23 days until my first application ... my life will never be the same.” The prospect sent me into shivers and ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015