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• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  I'd stay at MIT. I just needed to change something about life. Today ... fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the ... Avenue, including this guy, who took to answering tons of probing questions ... people! From MIT! Talking to other people! With cameras! And chat rooms! It

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  from September to December, while the Spring semester is from February to ... of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different things during it. Some of my friends chose to have an extended winter break

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  librarian wondered if I was over 12 years old—not great to hear a month before ... added a "2"—  is cooler, right? Now when I visit Ohio, I don’t need a   to feel cool. I enjoy role-playing with my sister and going to the zoo

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  schedules. First off, in order to even take the MCATs, you need to have taken ... amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one ... never ends, and now I won't be so lucky to get my application read by Matt

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  people listen to music—as much as I wish I could be a cool person with ... ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs ... out the other while walking to class, while eating, while doing chores

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  research mentor to see if he was smiling or frowning. He was usually smiling ... fellowships (AHHHHHH!!!!!!), and said goodbye to the NRAO, and the building in which I decided to become an astronomer insteaad of a neurologist. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  at school, I don’t have much to report about the students or about the ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder. He turned around, and some gears at the back of my mind began to turn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the ... . "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed ... , growing a beard is actually quite tough. To illustrate the self

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... never left Kenya before coming to the States. I went to both primary ... a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  hour sprint on an international flight to finish as much as I could ... 2016. Today Claire has achieved her dream and is goin to share this ... unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  design class that I need to understand the basics of being a product ... 'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... never have to take a specific Course 6 class ever again, which I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... 'm not smrt enough to do them, but these were even too difficult for some ... . Which makes for 20 minutes of just not too much fun if you ask me. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the text book I used for 1.00: Introduction to Computers and Engineering ... noted MIT professors have helped to select the freshman class while I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... 're still planning to be on schedule. Hopefully everyone would have their ... gift!). But, I've been trying to keep people realistic through this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  (where you do need a master's to enter a PhD program). Actually, the only ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... week, champion skiier by weekend, that's my Adam. Events about which to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few ... an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  world, from Taiwan to San Diego to right next door, and I’d much rather ... I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South ... ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  , and it's pretty much impossible to be in close quarters with people ... since you won't have the opportunity to do that this year, you can access ... a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn ... to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have successfully ... different mindset compared to three weeks ago. then, i was still in MIT mode

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019