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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  celebrate, get that energy out. You deserve it. =) For waitlisted applicants ... summer programs called the "Governor's Schools," and there's one for each ... school, we were only allowed to send one applicant to each of the programs

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  enough to send over a can of Pakola (Pakistani cream soda) for us to try ... consumed so much American media that I felt more than ready for this transition. However, nothing could have truly prepared me for the absolute

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  right now," Luca said when we went in earlier today for lunch. Grace and ... station, macarons in hand. I've been yearning for the Le Creuset Valentines cookware set for weeks now. Something about heart-shaped pots and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  radomes (short for "radar dome") are actually just fibreglass shells, built ... around the world as well as for radio astronomy. With the power turned off ... packet from another repeater, and sends them out to further repeaters to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  character Moushumi. If you've read this book, please feel free to send me an ... and a sundress. In less than 48 hours, I will be in Houston, both for the SASE national conference and for the warm weather. I'll (hopefully

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  usually consists of four dishes. 2. Send the list of ingredients, and ... house in time for the cooking day. 3. Show up on the day, and ensure that ... taught an eight-week introductory cosmology class, for High School students

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final ... serve as your advisor. Please use him as a resource for helping you make the most of your time at MIT, and for working towards completion of your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the ... knock on the glass--you don't have to open the door for them in this case ... , I only do this for sketchy- or imposing-looking people. Life's too

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  for you guys -- I wanted to take them when I was in early, so I wouldn ... lunch hour and get me ingredients for cookies and pie! So I guess instead ... 've been working in Morgan's lab for the last three years, which makes me one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  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 ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  January"]IAP[/annotation] when I was just about to prep materials for my ... someone on Sunday who tested positive for Covid a few days after. The ... "]UROP[/annotation] proposal that I have to work on with my direct supervisor so I can send it to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  peculiarly our own. The beaver is noted for his engineering, mechanical skills ... spent a lot of time closely inspecting and growing a deep love for the ... Brass Rat that is missing a photo here, definitely send it to me, I'd love

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  our data entry done we'll give you a chance to send us anything that is ... forward to lots more puzzles over the next few weeks so thanks for sharing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  end that I wouldn’t sign up for anything similar again. I send a ... my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time ... baggage claim with an accent like my late uncle’s told me they’d send the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  significant enough to merit a platform of its own. For those students, our ... good fit for a portfolio.[/annotation] If you’re still not sure, just ask ... (for this cycle: November 1, 2021). If you’re applying through Regular

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... for and everything else. And yet...or maybe because of that, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable ... meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  every principle i’ve been watching basketball on-and-off for a while now ... are way too many kinds of defense for me to be able to cover them all in ... for guarding them and following them around the court. like this

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022