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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via ... her email (I've been taking a godawful long time to respond to emails ... might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  are over 450 clubs to join that are sure to make MIT a little more like ... bio as well. I used to think that if you wanted to have a variety of ... their ideas well to people outside of their fields and instituted a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  . Feel free to propose a topic or question for the blogs—y'all make this ... tourist-y trip was to Target to buy a swimsuit. No regrets there: turns out, a late-night swim leads to the best sleep, so I plan to justify the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT ... of this post. Since coming to cambridge I've had a wide array of ... to the halting problem. You'll spend hours working on a problem only to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool ... Ball and a Coming Out Ball to celebrate coming out day! Queer West Queer ... more gay than West Campus. So Queer West came about to Make West Campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , here are some things I do to keep myself sane: Poi Poi is a member of the ... you can make your own for much cheaper. Toons Prior to MIT, I have never done or wished to do acapella in my life. On a whim, I decided to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  as a person. My 7.02 scientific writing teacher told us we have to make ... , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... figure now is a good time to start. I ended my wanderings after sitting on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize a bit since he came in late and was just scrambling for somewhere to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a ... 're familiar, thanks to a previous entry. Along the way, I thought I'd show you a ... 8-032 leads to an outdoor loading area with a great view of a certain

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a ... 't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  ."]an aggregation from an association[/annotation], and what makes someone a ... trip options, we agreed to go to all three [an opera, a concert, and a ... thankfully in English and adapted to make more sense in modern times, and I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] (to scale)[/caption] The Bay Area is huge, which makes ... tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... day, I was pleased to note that it was 6 am, and a whole day lay ahead

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... okay, it is really hard to actually feel okay. So I took a break. I only ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim ... learn how to also beep boop. Regardless, I suffered through 6.145, with a ... and making screens light up like magic. Then I started to realize that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  (hang on, I’ll get to that), I decided that was a perfect time to make ... , shape, form, or box in my life, but I was more than willing to make a game ... it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  day with MadMatt and Nance Nance Revolution to make sure we're ready for ... 's easy to see that the admit rate will drop this year. This makes committee ... another year on our quest to make the world better. (Lunch: Mass Ave food

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  to the reader). I'm struggling to keep my brain from blowing a fuse and ... out of a spoon using a bowl. It's an unpleasant way to feel right now ... why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  got to make up a story and give my problems to a fictional character ... Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks ... time approaching music as a creative outlet, and to be honest, I’m not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that ... making of MIT Imagination, along with some b-roll and a montage of mascot ... We've just launched a new MITAdmissions video. It's called "MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012