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• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  nation by Newsweek. It's very hard to get into (but since my dad works ... an interview, and it would be a shame if I won't get a chance to show ... India,do i need to get a good scoring in SAT exams....thanks" Andani wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  internet to judge (and help you take a break from thinking about those ... . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to ... didn't spend much time listening to music, she listened to a diverse

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  time to get stuff done. I'm just glad I'm a freshman- I feel no pressure ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... judges for the presentations. So I basically just showed up, listened to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a ... act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  During the summer, you get to do fun things you can't pull off during ... people called it a night, going upstairs to their rooms. I didn't want to ... sunrise while listening to Too Soaked To Break by Born Ruffians from Hugo

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff ... ago. i'm going to have to deal with it for a few months. the internet ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver ... play soccer) to get recruited, so I definitely have advice for other ... wanted a top-notch academic school. I went to an [annotation note="An ID

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  working all the time, I'm going to get back to reading your folders. Have a ... admissions officers sat next to me at a college fair last week in Chicago ... Boston, the ability to have so many colleges right nearby is a really great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  ground. I'm no longer drowning, and I'm just antsy for some project to get ... to care slightly more about my [annotation note="maybe I should do a ... Program (DRP). The DRP is a program run by the math department in which

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  cool book that I really loved reading if you manage to get a hold of the ... Spanish. But, after a bit more of fiddling with settings, I was able to get ... three final projects to do. I had a pretty intense week. I think this is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... don’t want.) Then connect these endpoints to form a hexagon. Repeat the ... zonotope is a word, but wants to correct zonotopal to Zootopia

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  things I want to and need to get done than one in a day -- when there are ... of bacon of comparable value to your kidneys in the living room with a ... one thing in a day, like get groceries, I can almost guarantee that I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  get roughly 5 hours to come up with a design pitch of a solution to one ... ) senior capstone class, which is essentially a course on "How To Make Stuff And Not Have It Suck" as it is related to microbes. We spend a semester

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  'm just getting a stick figure to "walk", but we in the research world like ... calligraphy class where you get to learn different strokes, characters and ... on taking [annotation note="Introduction to Design Intensive"]4.02A

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  spent a lot of time troubleshooting and trying to get the HTC Vive they ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus, we were still focusing on adjusting to and getting used to college life

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  get to by car and that were more woodsy. We’re more of a “cute cabin in ... .  I kept thinking “wow, this would be a good place to get murdered right ... become manageable. I was allowed to bring a few guests, so spring break

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... 't get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of ... . Pyrolysis and biochar. It's a little bit hard to imagine that all of these

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  everything. ben&ben has a song called branches, and when i listen to it i ... singer as a fire for the cold listener. compares themselves to a river and the listener to a dove. but then the dove has to fly away. there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy ... laptop hanging from the rafters with a note pinned to it. (not really, but ... ….) This blog is a bit more serious, (get it?….bit?.....and we were talking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  get delayed. I got to the airport approximately an hour and a half ... , 1:57 PM ​Flights been delayed by an hour and a half 😔😔 Imma try to ... to get there Okay well i googled and like Is it gonna be a run instead

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022