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• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  , UROPs, dorms, extra-curriculars, jobs, grad school, your love life, etc

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  think that I've done an okay, if not great, job taking advantage of IAP

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

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  better than my more sparse dye job, shown above. Oh, I can be like your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  bride, but my blog entry does a much better job than he did. Sorry, dude

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  go to CMIMC, in Carnegie Mellon, and I had a great time. It went quite ... 't know how to drive, I relayed the instructions at all the wrong times, and ... crowdsourcing to give real-time bus tracking, but it was also useful for paying

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  , one part of this utterance – just a few words – is looped several times ... urchins for the first time and adolescence. It’s a short, satisfying five ... , cracked. Then I was wailing—sobs erupted from somewhere, some part of me I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 ... time photographer friend Brenna got some cool photos of me posing like ... bus! The bus was late by like an hour so it was proper dawn by the time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  confusing mess of “Where do I start? How do I start? When will I have time to ... and comment on weird food combinations. Overall, fun times all around ... don’t have time to watch hour-long episodes of cooking. That’s totally

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  —the college application process in general—for a very, very long time. (A lot of ... give you a hard time about it six years later. Take this example: by the time we wound our way down to Wesleyan, I flat out refused to go on the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  for a really long time about engineering and South Korea and MIT and all ... a fantastic view of the water. The unfortunate part was that ... for gazing at the view and watching Adventure Time in Korean. We did

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  in their peformance space for the first time. This is the part of the ... incredibly lucky to be a part of a production of Richard III by the MIT ... 's second longest play (next to Hamlet), to a running time of about 2 hours. I

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  on clothing vs. time spent getting ready in the morning. This is known ... 'd say that for the most part, people dress how they want to dress, there ... . I was wondering for the question 6 in the part 2 application about the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  time to give thoughtful and detailed explanations for all of the concepts ... Michelson-Morley interferometer (disprove the existence of aether!) Time to ... every time you take a measurement, do data analysis, or breathe around an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  paint color palette. It might take some time, but this could also be done ... is very desaturated.  TAKEAWAYS for next time:  Wider color palette ... time: This time we used a more colorful video: https

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end ... 've been to DC three times before this summer: once on a middle school field ... part of MIT-Washington's orientation. [carousel image1="101766" image2

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  ’t matter now.  I spent a good portion of time trying to find the perfect ... that my different communities serve different parts of me. Some friends ... ’ve had this sort of encounter more and more as time passes, and the MIT

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  and maybe time will slow down enough for me to finish this exam or maybe ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I ... 's still a very small part of me that lives in contest-math-world and feels

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  daunting task, but I had time. Denmark was beautiful, and I’d spent the first ... existing ones into their most essential parts. Also, control over word ... that would suit.  The first time I wrote a pantoum, a poem where the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... (only two of whom knew each other) living in four different time zones and ... [/annotation], now seemed like as good a time as any to add to [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  , scrambling to finish on time.   Parts of MIT are wonderful in this ... free coffee every time someone took me there. It was different from the ... you can do anything, if you put in the time. Dig up the right grants

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022