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• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  school (which is a phrase that makes me sound like I'm 64 and recounting my ... scheduled around that test. About half of my classes also had finals before ... matter. And while my sense of humor has certainly gained from being one of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  with my family, even when they're hundreds of miles away. 2. Bicycle ... I won in a competition. I don't take it out of my room that often, but ... connect to my laptop, which is much easier on my eyes. However, running

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  for Dorm Rush. Helped out with parties on my hall. Helped choose new housemasters for my dorm. Painted my room. Helped repaint the black section of ... rush chair, or a member of my dorm's exec. Never designed and painted a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  insights into patterns in raw data. The idea excited me so much I took my savings from my paper route and went down to the local hardware store to get ... entering my junior year at M.I.T., I saw a notice on the student bulletin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  freshman year, I moved into my fraternity, ZBT (entry about ZBT tomorrow ... atmosphere, and my favorite....our rockstar picture! Bryan: i think i heard ... floor (These are actually pictures of my quad from way back when

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  he saw my blog entry last August, regardless of what his bio says. Ha ... features my favorite Diana creation--this mutilated prom dress for the ... dork watching Fox Reality's Ex-Treme Dating and running in my Math

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the finishing touches on my last HASS (read: Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences ... presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center ... students. I have always been passionate about food (I think it comes from my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• 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