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• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  too much involvement in the Philippines before, so it was our job to ... -government organizations) to hear about their day-to-day technology needs, and ultimately ... My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  steak, but it does have an interesting, distinct texture. Oh to know such ... was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... addressed to the Henry County High School senior. Once Gillespie got over his ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on ... the badly-peeling varnish layer, but somehow I never got around to painting. But as my senior year drew closer and closer to the end, as finals

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  practiced landing twice, once in each role. Then, it was time to go out solo ... pushed the rudder away and pulled the sail rope in…and then needed to pull ... towards the Midwest region but was really open to anyone. Basically, I sat

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  , however, accurately reflect the views of the author. Much to my ... Center. (Secondary factoid: The primary factoid does not indicate that I ... MIT Student Center who happen to read this blog and remember that one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  that we can understand, or learn-what does it mean to say that ... the ... ? What does it mean to say that space is what expanded, stretched, flowered ... certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  things were handled last summer. However, it is important to recognize that ... Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the ... . '17, Sabrina M. '19, and Anna B.), which was officially closed to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen ... 's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something ... didn't want that to happen.  The question of whether I wanted to do math began to nudge me more often. I wondered if I was doing it purely out of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to ... , surprisingly unassociated with a heaping workload Being miserable (much more ... 's never too late to check the IAP listings by today's date and attend an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  human factors in what we bring to and need from our work. The one story ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to Hollywood directors to auto mechanics and constructor workers and teachers

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  impromptu schedule for the next few days that would enable us to spend as much ... news broke the previous day. I didn’t have much time to spend with her ... feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question ... the time I was trying to answer the question, I wasn't thinking outside ... meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  . Sometimes, you’re in a situation where you need to interact with someone else ... , religions, backgrounds, you name it. It’s an exciting environment to be in ... ’s easy to take for granted the haven that is created Under the Dome, where

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in ... now going to tell you about how much work I had to do last week, and you ... descriptively "How to Build Jet Engines." While this class ranks much higher on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  to see that humor is valued as much as other "typical" applicant ... , and we need to be able to have fun and enjoy what we're doing—when that ... need a good sense of humor to push through the upcoming challenge. And

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  an overachiever =P), there's not much else to say. Except that the part ... - from CMS, presumably - are much more knowledgeable about what to ask than ... 1. As you apparently know already, Neil Gaiman came to speak at MIT

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005