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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  prove that you actually know how to do chemical engineering before you go ... 's foremost expert on formic acid fuel cells, to ask for the highest power ... cartridges of 22 M formic acid at all times, that's going to add up to a lot of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a ... your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these ... that I got to occupy for the summer and I was listening to my i ... couldn't get over how beautiful she was. And how I was...attracted to her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  update y'all on how my new schedule was going. And the answer to the ... funny? Sometimes when you need help the best thing to do is ask for help ... to do, asking for help has made me more productive and generally lifted

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got ... me a lot to think about. I'm certainly thankful for the opportunity to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to ... cook is to add things until you feel the universe screaming at you to ... how likely I am to Do A Thing today, we can ~extrapolate~. To figure out

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  blogger as it was to be selected for MIT this year (11.9%)! Before we ... : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is ... hard to let go. Thank you all for applying! Without further ado, here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I request a fee waiver?

  We understand that paying college application fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for both domestic and international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  to figure out how to get to the club room. Walker wasn’t the most ... been trying very hard to clean up the place for the past few weeks. It ... for marshmallows[/caption] artistic terrorization I forgot how exactly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  energetic version of myself for one weekend. I didn’t get many pictures for ... present. As it turns out, adults and teenagers are too large to ride on tiny little ponies, so we had to settle for adult horses. Nonetheless, prefrosh

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  the 2nd floor and then again to the mezzanine. I sat for hours with my ... returning to Macgregor, I walked back to the boathouse for afternoon practice ... , I would trudge back to campus afterwards for a night exam or office

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  have for God - that I would grow up to work at PlayStation and Twitch ... that there is slightly more nuance to my past dislike for computer ... similar love to the one I have for research, and is the reason that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  the time to get out the DVD, here's a YouTube video of them wrestling at ... favorite two. Roast is also a time for halls and suites to do something art ... . If your initial reaction to that was "...um, what?", then I'll fill you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  for poetry writing, though, so there's that"]annoying.[/annotation] To ... week. Then I went ‘n’ had a lotta thoughts and present to you many of ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Kazakhstan for GTL. Doha was the most common layover when traveling to ... 't socially acceptable to wear there, so I can only imagine how hard it would be ... , with only the exterior changing with time. I got a fridge magnet to add

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  microbes to essentially act as bio-computers. for instance, they develop ... last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  flying steel. One of the major joys of MechE for me has been the ability to ... me how to use it! [carousel image1="96638" image2="96642" image3 ... Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of ... map below) or wait for someone to open the door for you. If it’s daytime

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  , Peter explained how coming to MIT for the first time can make it really ... for Arabic music. “I want to start a YouTube channel or something for ... privilege. I consider myself incredibly lucky that I managed to stay here for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025