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• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  than Halley's Comet. Tomorrow, I will (1) wake up, (2) attempt to get a ... resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... sincerely apologize if she wasn't able to sign your forms after I skipped out

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to practice saying goodbye to Pass-No Record and start embracing real grades (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  most represented, and what is the most populous country to have no MIT ... to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the ... any class. But on the other hand, most professors still expect us to put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  gets to pretend she's a real pirate for a little bit along with first ... you keep rolling?" but I figured that nobody else would get that either ... fortress at Barad-Dur is rebuilt on the land of 10-250. The Exam yearns to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  division biology elective which gets great reviews in the student subject ... 's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this ... looking forward to it. Multivariable calc is a prereq. Eep.) I also have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  , because I go to cheerleading practice and throw people around and get muscly ... right now is to eat something. A huge something. (Actually, that's not ... lost about 5 pounds last term on what I like to call the "75 Unit Diet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  Boston's 50+ universities get together. Also, I'll get to answering more of ... applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group ... to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  people telling me not to get a job before hacklodge it was last fall, when ... , an applied crypto research group, so i was able to join 0xparc and get ... ’s similarly unfair how only 25 people get to take that class each year, how more

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  pants, closed shoes, and no hanging jewelry) to get in the door. However ... get a sense of who the candidate is, and why they want to go to MIT. One ... they'll get to the Geo report in the near future. Helen wrote, "First, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  begin to rush over. I tell them not to worry about it, to get on with ... , I was unfazed. Not shocked at all. The first thought that came to my mind was again. It's happened again. And so I set my phone to the side

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really ... lost it before you could get it down on paper or somewhere else you'd remember? Notebooks were my solution to that. I have pages of melodic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  our tempers and egos to get the better of us. But one way or another, we ... to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I have three sisters. And while I love all of them dearly (am I allowed to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  , essays, tests, revisions-- to and fro like clockwork. When the bell sounded for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear desks- packed with papers, binders- to gather pens and notes, to close the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half ... credits if you happen to see it. Which isn't a bad idea; you get what you ... think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  to really get into it. We had our own Baker House jerseys and ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to turn out for the big football game and get drunk beforehand, or where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  ’s a notion that as language models get larger they appear to suddenly ... ’d like to get there eventually from the answer is not a hut in the woods ... corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I'm trying to define and process right now, but I don't feel like airing that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  to get out of my room other than just getting lunch and getting tested ... today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020