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• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  Independent Activities Period. To some extent this is true-- friends down my ... terrified. I worried that I wouldn't get into any school. I spent that week solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  you intellectually. Also, you may want to talk to your parents about a ... 's education when that time comes. To answer your question about salary: MIT ... are your remaining questions? What factors are you considering?" I got

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  , and what not to expect. Your host: There's no one standard for ... for you to explore on your own. You may want to talk with your host about your needs for the weekend, the help that you'd like, and to what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  Midyear Report serves two purposes: to get your updated grades since you ... serves two purposes: to provide your updated grades since you have applied, and to mention other updates since you submitted your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

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

  

  described as "too goddamn independent" and my mother, much as I love her, was a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  you will see in some future blogs, not being able to get a full feel of ... signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... felt I was getting a lot of emails, but not this many by any means. It

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... AAS business sessions in order to pass resolutions and make decisions on ... lot of useful information and gained insight as to how we can improve

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are ... with three people. I volunteered to organize and compile it by 3 PM today ... my laptop, taking it from wireless connection to wireless connection on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  Google Calendar to manage all my academics and events, but i put my lists ... 'getting things done' to this extent takes a great deal of complacency. half ... , i've decided to get my head out of my ass and give it a chance, and i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  got a job offer last year from Google[x] that was too good to turn down ... ’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.

  

  want to see it differently this time. Also, the opportunity to travel during Independent Activities Period (IAP) is pretty hard to resist. It ... Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  you can add some context and details to your application. It’s a chance to tell your story and for us to get to know you as a three ... about it (I will talk more about this later); it’s one way for us to get

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... T being Boston’s subway system, which he used to get from MIT to ... teachers, had tried to reinforce over and over to no avail: that we only get

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  you the boot in the butt and tells you to get lost. And then what do you ... When the most stressful thing in your life is having repetitive conversations about your future, life is too easy and things become a big deal

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  Here goes another Omnibus... sorry if I didn't get to your question ... admission office explaining what happened. I expected to get a good score for ... students where posting and I began to get a little worried. People here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  the total votes, thanks to what the official Doonesbury Web site called ... #3 on it), Alex Doonesbury is officially going to MIT! Look out for ... character in Garry Trudeau's popular Doonesbury comic strip, will be coming to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT ... prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be interesting, common enough to take us all around MIT. To inform our orange

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  get back into running. I’ve been on break for too long, and it’s time to ... yet.  So now I know I need to make a change. But how? How do I get out ... strong enough to get things done on my own, and I shouldn't need help. In

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  during Splash, you can get your feet wet with a short introduction to any ... flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything and everything. From music theory to Hungarian history to aircraft