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• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  . Over IAP I am working on a short-term project and my thesis proposal ... one of which will comprise my thesis and the next year and a half of my ... may or may not be able to read without being on a college wifi network

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... latter are a little stressed out. They are all wide-eyed as they try to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it ... to something called ROFLCON. ROFLCON? What's a ROFLCON? I read on: A ... workshops, unmoderated talks, a Concert of the Internet (ft. Group X, Lemon

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  was on a mission. Since Matt Mcgann was occupied on the phone at the ... I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a ... got there after what should have been little more than a 5 minute walk I

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry, which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... Crate & Barrel on Boylston Street to do a book signing in December

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... . My other close professor friend got to know me because I took a lab ... class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the ... crazy! Needless to say, this generated a lot of comments, so I decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Foundries. It's also a (heavily subsidized) ski trip! Because MARC isn't only ... output (I guess being an undergrad made it okay), I have a poster to ... English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them. emma To my dearest, sweetest Emma. I feel like this will be a reiteration of my Peace Corps rec letter for you, but let this be a public

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my posts. I made a Spotify playlist if you want to listen to them all: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wP6Lb5qZ0B9NXAjwsFYyl?si=2c079440422a4f32 I've had to make some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  family. I miss my friends. I miss MIT. I miss having a normal life. After ... : Gravity Falls is a story about two twins, Dipper and Mabel, who move to ... . At first, it seems a little boring and janky, but the twins quickly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here's a recent one: Jim Olson '74, OG MacG resident, answered some questions I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using ... ’d recommend looking back at your revision history. Not only is it a cringey ... because the prompt confused me a LOT. I spent many nights lying awake

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  Last weekend, I wrote “A Guide to Farmer's Markets". Here’s what I ... think vegetables are a *big deal*, but anyway, my point is, I don't think ... --especially when, in this day and age, bad news is always a mouse-click away. Rather

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  A few weeks ago I did an interview with the Raising Problem Solvers ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  As if someone flipped a switch, this year's unnaturally warm autumn ... ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard ... passion. To be fair, MIT may have cultivated a different culture than these ... year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  iafisher.com website which features a series of geography quizzes regarding ... , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the time, Jonathan only knew basketball. A few hours later, he had memorized

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally ... , since it's not a question of whether I belong or not; it's doubt of my ... that every MIT degree is made equal, whether that means a 5.0 GPA or a 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really ... you pictures of the muscles I have not sustained, and I drew a bunch of skeletal structures, glued pipes together. I can code a bit in Fusion now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021