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Blog / Admissions
The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…
This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... to meet our target class size. With that figure in mind, I was convinced that we'd have to admit at least a few from the waitlist. I was -
Blog / Admissions
π Day
Happy Pi Day! I'm in Washington DC. Seeing as yesterday (Pi Day, 3/14) was also Einstein's birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Sciences, I set up my -
Blog / Athletics
IM sports totally rock
: Matt MacLeod I came out of last night's IM hockey game just ... build community, to have fun, to stay in shape. I could not imagine MIT ... hockey team were great fun, and every time I look at my Baker House ice -
Blog / Admissions
Summer days, driftin’ away
talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other ... two reasons I wrote my last entry. The first is, to be quite truthful -
Blog / Academics & Research
getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵
, the sophomore fall! *** Uh so yeah I'm gonna be a sophomore, and just saying that didn't feel like dramatic enough of an opening. I wanted it to sound like an old nursery rhyme or something, but I also didn't care that -
Blog / UROP & Other Research
We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square
In my junior year of high school, I started taking single-variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in -
Blog / How to Human
existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik
curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... activities that has stuck with me, like an itch that I just can’t shake ... straightforward. I can take it anywhere with me. Virtually every problem is new and -
Blog / Life after MIT
My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much
I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it was before Tesla REALLY took off. It was a Tesla Roadster and I was ... I graduated from MIT and a year and a half after that I moved to -
Blog / Admissions
My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school
Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an ... . However, even though these were all factors, they were all things I felt -
Blog / Events
MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!
I've talked about how humor, networking, and great ideas are all ... 's time to blog about something I feel particularly passionate about: public-speaking. Whenever I tell people I'm a theater minor at MIT, there are the occasional -
Blog / Academics & Research
Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.
So you guys. MIT is hard. No, seriously. I figure you've probably heard this once or twice before, but I think it's worth mentioning again. Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until -
Blog / Academics & Research
Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...
night I completed the machine tools class, which means I finished making my corny little flashlight: Now I can use a milling machine and a lathe, which I think makes me pretty cool, thank you very much. I got to -
Blog / Life after MIT
[guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23
to say, I’d like to write more now that I’m transitioning from college to the next phase of my life. I’m excited to say that I’ll probably be pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...
do things other than science, technology, or engineering. I personally find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies
Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time filling out all of those ... beginning!! We were going to college!! I obsessed over my answers to every question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors
Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who likes playing games that I can play over and over. When I made the Slay the Spire post two years ago, I had 67 hours in the game. Now I have 300 -
Blog / Classes
A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments
I think a lot of MIT professors have a humorous side, and most of ... the silliest assignment questions I've been asked here: ... I thought this abbreviation of the word "Methods" was a very -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Sweet summer song
Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a writing mood for the last couple months, but I'm back and I'm excited to ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I -
Blog / How to Human
how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows
i recently reread sandra cisneros' short story "eleven". “what they ... phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card fixed and i overheard some current undergrads talking about their classes
