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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  discovered how hard it is to get good pictures in the fog, especially when ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I ... Limited will take me to Chicago, arriving at 10:12 AM CST on January 4th

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  ordinarily would have wanted to blog about. Knowing me, I’ll never get around ... -person graduation got canceled, 10 friends and I instead went on a road trip to ... night in Las Vegas, then… Pass through Valley of Fire on our way to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... ." So far, the voice is compelling enough for me to immediately get up ... operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  regional quotas are applied; neither is preference given to those with alumni relations. Selection is based on outstanding academic achievement as well as a
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  .  To check your decision on the 14th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. In order to verify that you will ... ="" align="aligncenter" width="480"] when u try to check your decision on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 We will post RA decisions online on Saturday at 2pm... or probably a minute before.

  

  and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your ... @mit.edu with your full name and mailing address. We'll use this information to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  -grader, but it's true, so there you go. Rain, on the other hand, just gets ... room, not to mention three (count 'em) umbrellas. In case you're curious ... !) Unfortunately, I'm not going to sing it for you. Sorry, but trust me, you're

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  used it to draw or just generally fuck around on the internet. I don ... mine at MIT was really interesting — and it was good to get a new ... Kinneret my top song because I saw a video that said if you listened to it on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  on that later), so I need to get some experiments finished up before ... means that I get to wander around and run errands and do fun stuff (like ... curl my hair before class, but today I had to bust my rump to get into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  : about jobs, about your ability to pay for college, and more generally ... education, there remains the anxiety over how to pay for it. I know that for ... urge you to contact your financial aid officer. At a press conference at

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the ... , put on your red shoes, and dance the blues. Every year by 1 AM, everyone ... subjected my listeners to this on the air several times.) I suggest we all

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  . thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won't get to spend my ... the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  (except for “How do I get into MIT?” I still don’t know what to say to that ... was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au ... Charles River on a spring morning. As I sit on the train from New York to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  and i have nothing much to do. but with nothing to do, i'm getting kinda bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... for organizations to last a lifetime. but i get bored of making websites

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  experiments, we're trying to shed some light on how infants become social. In ... time only one word (corresponding to one of the images on the screen) is ... effect on my way down to pick it up. Then I'll ask the same question again

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  you learn to put up with when you're a country mouse coming to the city ... you're trying to register for a PE class, but the server breaks because ... People walking shoulder-to-shoulder down the Infinite There’s always

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  .9000/intro to linguistics. I wasn't really thinking specifically about getting ... make a website or add-on to make life at MIT easier, like Courseroad or ... semester, I get to work with the Language Acquisition Lab. The Lab looks at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  , or the exam that tests your ability to choose correct responses to 144 ... the SAT is bad, wait till you get to the MCAT. But that's enough ... opportunities (like what I did in my last two IAPs), to work on projects (both

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  support systems, and I want to curl up in a ball and demand "why don't I get ... figure out how to make enough money to Not Starve -- because I do not want ... because I didn't remember how to take words like "marginal probability" and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022