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• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  childhood days in Michigan, when we'd hang out in the basement of our house ... rent a car from the local Budget office. Unfortunately, the only type of car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating the world on the status of those sidequests. It seems that the time for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  getting a glimpse of life at MIT. Learn more about the program, and the nationwide STARS College Network, here. At the conclusion of the program, we ... knit. For example, on the day of my return, they had a hotdog eating

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind 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 / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  traditionalist and as one of the "universal synthesists." Using the French Suite No ... classical music-loving group. My neighbors are members of concert choir and ... lot of exposure to music composed between 1600-1800. I've listened to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... string up 120 miles of wire and cable and set up over 1000 posts: they ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  HELLO. So the last three weeks of my life have been absolutely ... apocalypse vibes) Driven 24+ hours and 1000+ miles over the course of three ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  , the current state of my life and psyche, and the existence of God ... all of your concerns about MIT and thus help me become a better blogger ... something. One of them, Bryan '06 was so crazy about biking that he took his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  Class of 2020 (<3), now with fewer minions memes. CPW 2018 is next week!!! We are thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2022! GET HYPE ... event. The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving meal. It was a way of giving the graduate students, many of whom had all of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... picked the right major!   (An example of some ridiculousness from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip ... (mirar) with different verbs. I can't think of an appropriate transitive

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  victims of natural disasters. I myself am from Naples Florida and just got ... they will ever reach MIT nonetheless reach MIT in a reasonable amount of ... students who have been adversely affected by recent events. To all of you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  a University of New Mexico Physics site, but I'm glad it is "Sonnet ... hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean ... of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure how I felt. It was this strange mixture of disbelief and excitement. My

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  surprising pulpit of a university famous for its overachievers, she has become ... Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... 's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in ... [annotation note="One of the most eventful days of the UROP, haha"]random day

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... , with 21 (12 from 614 and 9 from UAT) of those already allocated, so that gives me about 33 units to play with. I have a list of classes I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022