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• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  much. When I was a kid, my mom would drive me to the neighbourhood ... Defensive Baking: This is set in a classic medieval-with-the ... real draw of the book is the way you can fall in love with every single

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  . After stopping by a bakery to buy some roll cake (for breakfast the next ... 's below freezing, cold enough for there to be ice puddles in the streets ... Currently drinking: Odwalla Superfood Currently feeling: warm and cozy in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  portal. This form is to be mailed in to MIT. The address is: Office of ... your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really ... extracurriculars or the people who sat next to me in class. I was the proud introvert ... mean, the solution is to not care about what others think, especially

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  the most part, I'm about to find out just what there is to do in this ... walked to 7-11 in the biting cold like only a crazy person should. With ... This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... of the formalism used is the same as in quantum mechanics, even though ... friends is justified (people are less busy than during the semester, and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  rail, and is also accessible by bus, although we rode the Red Line to Alewife and just took an Uber to drive us the rest of the way (Uber is ... , much less use one. Henry David Thoreau lived in a cabin on the Pond for

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  in the future that are yet to come Things that depress me Psets 5 ... are to me Make a real impact in the world ... Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up ... burn and itch in my mind, the things that I can't seem to get enough of ... teachers I've ever had the privilege of taking classes with - from time to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  . This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun ... offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the ... like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  experience that will most likely never find it’s equal in the past 18 years of ... filled with essentials, we head out to begin tasting the fine wine that is ... ’s Taqueria at 8:00 that night, and in the beginning it seemed to be going well

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as ... , and the SAT II Subject Tests are much easier to relax during, in my ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  . firstly, people mostly take classes in only their own major. i had the ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade is the final exam at the end of the term (in the summer term

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  .63: Laboratory in Visual Cognition - This is one of the last Course 9 requirements ... /applicable to anything I do in the future. That's it for now - planning on ... 9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (not really). The day I arrived back in the US, I sent an email to IS ... is where tragedy strikes. The part in the story where everything ... way back to the States near the end of week 3 after a few days in Japan

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... 't help much in the long run. I've always been ridiculously independent ... these reunions to be weird - and for the most part, they aren't; every

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer ... in the realm of observational astronomy—so much so, in fact, that ... , so the conversation is much more informal and personable than you might

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  MIT EC in Taipei). I'll try my best to translate/capture the most ... what is the most important is being able to apply the tools you picked up ... ...etc. etc.). Back in May, they invited MIT to appear on the show, and they

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to ... ’t appreciate how much effort we had been putting in until we didn’t have to ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  corner). Video: The ride terminated (as most rides ought to) in a hot tub ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of ... like we needed to maintain threshold power to simply stay upright in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013