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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  viewing pleasure.  Enjoy! Nine-fold Pinwheel Designer: I forgot (and can’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school ... complex 3D shapes, and I immediately fell in love with the art. Despite

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and ... biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  So, Online Freshman Advising Folders became available on Monday ... . First there's traditional advising, where you are assigned an advisor and ... weird and I don't know anything about it, except that it's residence based

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  the middle of their second term (although you're free to switch later if ... cellular, molecular, and developmental biology, so no ecology classes for me! (And frankly, I couldn't be gladder. I think plants are uninteresting

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  summer free after graduation, and I remembered my early childhood dream of ... each other. Jackfruit, the largest (and tastiest!) fruit in the world ... and disappear in the leaves, and if you find a fruit tree you may meet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  of going out, I'm just gonna do it. 4. Fruit and water. Stay healthy ... to go for a walk or get real food. If I didn’t love the world and want ... manageable, and they’ll continue to build, so most likely, the real hardest

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  free time (and maybe that’s why you clicked on this article)~ And it is ... --but not always in the condition that you’d like. Rows and rows of stalls ... I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  find a UROP," I was watching Cartoon Network and trying to score free ... second-generation vehicle and applying for more grant money, which I hope ... chemistry tests, and a calculus test that term. That's a lot of failure for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  and final part to my previous blog. I spent last semester trying to ... , I completed two puzzles, and I'm finally feeling ready to start the ... -ish blogs and living. I know in theory that this feeling is okay, it just is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  the open blog threads, and since there were so many questions regarding ... we had over 6500 EA applications and have admitted 650 applicants early. It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  design from scratch and subject to real-world constraints. Ernesto — who ... encourage initiative, to promote the spirit of free and objective inquiry, to ... year, and our continued policy of being tuition-free for families making

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  because I have no food. ... Update: I bought only fruit and now I just have fruit. If you killed my character I would drop trading cards and ... because I am an Orientation Captain. I have to come early for training and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  junior from a senior developer. Part of that was pride, and the other part ... languages used, popular libraries and frameworks, revision control, design principles, testing and debugging, developer tools. And I understood the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  other frosh that consistently come to Triple Foxtrot. Eating pizza and ... , I’m stealing free food from florey again. do you guys want anything ... boredom and morbid curiosity, I downloaded and read through a 400 page radio

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  estimated term bill and additional expenses (in this section we do call out ... real money on them, but I thought about them constantly. You will find ... to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  topics, or digitize all of them and get people to respond online. It ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... will soon be able to eat nothing but baby food, and I have more work to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  Somerville with my wife, whom I have lived with since January 2021, and whom I ... November rule with."]dated since October 2017.[/annotation] And yet, in the last four years, I graduated from MIT, twice. I got engaged and then

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  . Admission to almost all of London's museums is free. And as we all know, free ... undergraduate and graduate students from all over the U.S. and U.K., we hear from ... formally welcome you admitted and delightful goobers to the Institute. Four

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  and spinach salad: one of my first attempts at "real food"!   ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event that requires consultation, commiseration, and collaboration. Barbeques

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  summer as well and moving into my dorm as soon as I was able. Overall, I ... technicals and two studios. They are as follows: 8.02 - Physics II 2.004 - Dynamics and Control II 6.1210 - Introduction to Algorithms 4

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024