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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the ... better or would have liked but never got a chance to meet, and more. The key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  . She also really likes to lie in the sun, which I do as well, so when I ... belongs to my roommate Dominik, though we call him Dom (the person, not the ... boy because swims in his own poop water and then likes to get too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... like 8-6), and when I got off work I’d walk to the climbing gym or the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... , but we know what it is. It’s very easy to make, but I realize the name can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  : Prospective students often ask me to share the most memorable essays I’ve read ... not. But while I’m reading your application, I should be able to get to ... the student community at MIT. I didn’t expect to spend so much time on

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one ... were in relation to the fusiform face area (FFA), which responds selectively to faces over objects presented in the visual field, and Nancy

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  for their help during the semester, etc, and returned to angsting ... be happy to meet with me. Absolutely mortified at the idea that they had discussed me at the grading session, I arranged to meet with him on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  gets, I can always go home on breaks to an amazing meal cooked by my mom ... similar to MIT’s 8.01/8.02). My mom also made sure I knew all the basic life ... not be here if it were not for her. She was the first person to believe

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... , and that's why I'd like to devote the few following sentences to help ... four years but never actually talked to except when the teacher made you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  pressures to comMIT. It may not feel like it if you get deferred or rejected ... to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next ... you have. If you get accepted to MIT, while it will probably give you a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has ... only contracted to move the cannon here for CPW, and we respect the speed ... hacking history comes to a close. I, for one, was quite impressed with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  doing all he could to get her to eat the thing burning in his hands, which ... faithfully published here on the blogs by CJ, started freshman fall, when I ... inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Constellation Hiraeth - Tomek Kolczynski, Tamar ... ; Connecticut -> New York. We also stopped by New Jersey to practice before our ... ."]multi-state journey[/annotation] to Monsey in upstate New York for the NYU

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  -aggressively tell me to get better at dispensing water, but to our surprise, the QR ... minutes for me to have the misfortune of using a Bevi machine. (The reason ... that. I want the MIT Admissions Blogs to remain a platform for positivity

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  grandmother on my dad’s side, which I only get to do when I visit my parents. We ... drive from town to town up and between the hills and see dozens of ... were deafened shadows by the time they untangled themselves from the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My ... 'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab for the rest of eternity. There are two things I consider to be the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  survive on ramen and coffee before getting scurvy, but the mundane details ... something to look forward to after high school, either at MIT or the college of your choice. Also, I'm kinda trying to hype myself up over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020