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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  close to a win-win situation as you can get without opening a jar of peanut butter- you get to tutor underprivileged kids, do AIDS and cancer ... shelter for the southern Californians here at MIT, I think we can agree that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  most interesting events and you can fill in the rest with your overactive ... percent sure of all that, but if you can correct me, then you were watching ... supposed to be a model/actress--not that you can't do that and go to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  time during which absolutely nothing is expected of you; ironically, you tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... to GIRs, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an MIT student who doesn

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up ... for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was ... we hit the town, where I got to see a lot of my old pals from the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  people with food allergies. You can go shopping for food even if your dorm ... at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own food in dorm kitchens?" If you have multiple food allergies that require

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  employ to make their points. (if you know me, i hope you can deal with the ... ? is it? but a second, more skeptic thought going, it can’t be, it can ... the W-cube. there is not much to get out of this story, i just like

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  with the Greek Griller - free bbq for everyone, and you can go around and ... "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they ... , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  need to gain control of every aspect of my life so i can be fulfilled ... reminiscent of the time in high school where i would overcommit myself in my ... bedroom with art. i'm getting there..."]expanding my collection of art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  discussions that one could also explore.  If you go all that way back to episode #260 from October 28, 2024, you can even hear from one of MIT's former ... get a start on the college exploration process. For that later group I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  , pens, cupcakes, etc.) you can acquire from hundreds of companies set up ... justify getting more, especially when there's no chance of me working for ... summer jobs pre-MIT! Do what you love, whether that's working in a lab or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  this point, but maybe later I can tell you more about Honduras (There ... now I'll just allow myself one more picture (of our rope pump!) and get ... company. Let me know if you're out there working too!

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  intelligent conclusions. In the words of the late Aaliyah, "If at first you don't succeed, you can dust it off and try again." Experiment #2: Testing the ... skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  engineering t-shirt. The current slogan is "You Wish You Could be M.E.) Get the ... months at MIT so far. Somehow each morning I can sort through this mess

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  Shorts – What more can I say? MIT Full Face Zip Hoodie – For when you ... you and your friend can't agree on whose League of Legends champion is ... eldritch monster who can match wits with you, and you’ll never be sitting

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  's early life. But once you get into the science part of it, some really ... I warn you: this is a depressing entry. Last week I finally finished ... then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  and electrostatic motors. It appears that graders can have a sense of humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to ... the graders and probably (hopefully) ended up getting LOL points for my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  (although it's actually possible to do MISTI multiple times!). You see, there ... can to travel alone internationally for the first time. Of course I ... ...that’s also completely tangible... where my memories may have actually happened

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  ="Undergraduate Research Opportunity, where students get to contribute to real research on ... You know those “four seasons” posters that elementary school teachers ... –an exaggeration of a spring where some trees might grow a handful of flowers

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  produced "BloomBud" – a plant that can (sort-of) interact with you. Bloom ... , audition, or competition where you feel overwhelmingly clueless is a huge ... something and how scary it can be to fail. Year upon year, as we build upon

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019