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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  composite history of the year's blizzards. In New Hampshire, up in the White ... find yourself here next winter, and in need of some ways to stay warm or ... Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  I started writing a blog about freshman fall four months ago, in ... entrance to Baker. I couldn’t stop smiling as I waited in line for food. I ... fact, I think I’m happier in all the metrics that I use to measure my own

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  things were all set. Last week someone clued me in to the fact that MIT had ... things that look like big white boards but are hooked up to computers so ... first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It ... location when I was still going to school in Taiwan). Also, I'm trying ... school!!!) (sorry - I just love traveling too much to stay in boston over

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... of discoveries were made in 1930s Germany, and I wanted to keep ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  friend Maita '13 (her feet featured in Fig. 1C) decided to add a little ... have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of ... construction paper, three packs of markers, and 120 crayons have come in handy in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Howdy Where are you guys going to live? Etc.

  

  Thanks to everyone who submitted applications for admissions blogging ... all end up. I have a lot of blog-comment-questions to respond to - look for an entry to this effect in the next couple of days.

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  didn't really relate to my affluent White classmates in high school ... Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... want to teach in a saviouristic way, and I become a little more hesitant

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  enough time to say hello to each of the colored balls in Simmon's (ex ... Wesomeness." (The C didn't want to join the little acronym party, because its still ... Wesomeness that is MIT...As I would do right now if I had the chance to - high

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  button, or stamp that mail! The closer you send in your application to the ... Application Tracking. It can take 3 weeks for items to appear in Application ... admission to January 3. The freshman application can be submitted through My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... , who’s to say I couldn’t do well in other competitive pursuits? If I ... worked way too hard in high school, to a point where it was actively

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• 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 on the bus, I realized that everything I do - work, blogs, grad school

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to in-class concept questions. That’s OK, Joel, your grade is high enough to take the hit. Besides, you took physics in high school. But in ... calc homework in an evening or churn out research papers of arbitrary

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat ... might be relevant in order to fill in the rest of the space. To fit

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  time. Almost all of my blog posts are written in one sitting, often 4 ... treasure I keep in my back pocket, something fun to think about, even if I don’t always have the time to invest in it. I like teaching people about

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  strong believer in form follows function (as it pertains to music, not ... ) the entire work is designed in an attempt to maximize the power of the ... possible. first you write the software (in assembly) to do the sorting, then

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  've learned over and over in the GEL program. It's our instinct to push the ... 's "Under the Dome" Open House. To put that into perspective, hosting this ... , you have my permission to put down your AP study books and take a look

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  , but I can’t. The blogs try to capture snippets of MIT life, but the ... ’s joy in challenge, in starting out having absolutely no idea how to begin ... that, you know, it’s 3AM in the morning, you just don’t want to touch

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  . College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... starting to think I'd never find the warm live-in community that so many people seemed to have in college--but I ended up making friends with the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  , writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025