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• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  bunch of concepts, put twists on the classical examples, and churn out ... Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my ... week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a ... the start of Independent Activities Period (IAP). *Cue “It’s the Most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  leadership experience on my resume, and I didn't want to go anywhere north of ... turkey and cheddar on a very large piece of Publix Cuban bread, and the ... song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please check your application tracking on MyMIT today. If you are missing an ... time to follow up on that and make sure we have it as soon as possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  train. I’m one of the last passengers to get on. Phew. Since I have ... , mourning that minute of sleep that I’ll never get back. I reward myself with ... today- no, she says. She has two on Thursday, Economics and Math. I wish

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  "] my laptop looks like it's floating, but really it's sitting on top of a ... most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  later, we hopped in her car with bags full of clothes and went on an adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to Canada before. Therefore, we were quite surprised by some of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  California for 7 days, playing 4 matches and spending the rest of the time ... '17 made this wonderful video for MIT's DAPER (Department of Athletics ... of tennis, friends, and bad tanlines: We travel to California every

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  , but we did have some photo-taking fun on the last day of class: (hey ... innovation might just be for you: That's right, for the low price of free you can find your MIT soulmate - provided that both of you like each

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  on the beach in Dakar: The music scene in Dakar is one of the most ... to still take advantage of the incredible opportunities MIT has to ... lots of ceebujen (fish and rice). And I got to film it all happening

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... early action, 13% more than last year. We admitted 390 students, or 11% of the applicants. A similar number of students were denied, while those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common, but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the time. So it was seriously hot on our second day in München. Thus, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  'll give some numbers: - 125 = number of years the US Open has been around ... = number of Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open is one of them (along with ... ?) Speaking of Andy Roddick, at the beginning of August, my roommate, Anna, came

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer, I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational ... about it. But I can assure those of you who applied to these programs that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  what? An post-mortem of the exam I did not do well on this exam ... the class assuming a 0 on this exam, and I might. I make a small list of ... .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  devoid of people, because everyone's on break but you're still at MIT ... choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel ... 's nothing earth-shattering. it's easy to minimize as it spills out of your

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... asked me for one of the publications on my table. He proceeded to fold the ... Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  our "media-critique" glasses and "awe-of-animation" glasses on for parts ... eventually work on animated films — to give other people the feeling of hope ... The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  just ended up trying on weird outfits at the behest of the employees. I ... China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light. Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009