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  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  .223 as I write this. (though I did hand in all the psets on time! go me!) I ... for like half of January after coming back from Russia in the beginning ... ’s cold. And we’re in a pandemic. As for cleaning my room… the class and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... through applications, an idea slowly started forming in my head. Well, more ... "]a written piece where every sentence was taken from a line in a song

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... family-owned businesses and trendy food destinations in general. I mean ... Company all in the same square? It’s hardly fair. There is a visible trend

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in ... Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... -eye flight home, and you see people you know in the halls again. Crucially, Reg

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... enough to stay in the department, but i never felt totally sure about it. i ... multipliers in the same breath, where i get read and write (at various levels of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days ... me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the ... dress and sandals (in contrast to my usual comfy T-shirt and shorts

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  space-themed climbing game for kids There's a shift in arcade games ... LED rocks and the capacitive touch sensing to detect a user's hand. In ... a demo in action! :D The biggest concern for Gravity, they felt

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  your Part 1 now, if you haven't already. There are no essays in there ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline ... , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... also all had their shot, and knowing in my head who I would have voted ... there was was state interest. It did a big part in helping to unite the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  the best college events in the nation—Campus Preview Weekend at MIT ... about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My CPW story can be summed up in three pictures. Friendship: From R to L

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  's bed, Nixon sheds a lot of goldish-orange fur, Voight meows to himself in ... new to hall, having arrived in a kennel on Delta Airlines from a place ... clueless about what they were like on a daily basis before I moved in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I ... different lives: sad girl sulk in Boston, wanderlusty adventures in Europe, and domestic comfort in Austin   anyways   Things I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  in creativity and fitness originating from a very simply defined objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of ... . There are mats, but it’s dangerous if you fall in a bad way. But climbing

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  starts (in my case, when I was packing to come to Orientation!) I've gone ... blogs (of course) and coming to blogger check-ins. We're expected to write one blog every two weeks and check-ins are scheduled at that same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  You may have noticed that everything in this institvte is named by ... ; tool = working. "I'm gonna be tooling in Hayden tonight."  2. n ... Research Opportunity Program, as in doing research. 2. n an undergrad in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... accumulating in me as the days go on. but they’re more like rings inside a tree ... knows what they're doing in [annotation note="and if you are one of those

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... floating in sludge, and that every amount of work I do actually get done ... 've always felt that I lack in comparison to other MIT students: I just don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... and debate about various things happening in the media at the immediate ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020