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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  forgot something and I want to update my application, how do I do that ... officially a member of the RA pool. Should I send in extra materials? You ... updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  in English!) JSF is a really unique program. Unlike IAP Madrid, which ... got to chat casually with a Paris opera star. I'm in the same picture ... . The opéra was really smiling on JSF that night. A hidden lair When I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  that Viagra aids jetlag recovery in hamsters. Do you still think you ... I'll assume that we've all heard of the Nobel Prizes, yes? Perfect, now how about the Ig Nobels? The Ig Nobels are a humorous offshoot of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  looks you in the eye in a way that none of the other Ivy League deans do ... realized that that pressure came from me." "I was sending her a message ... presentation. "Every time I do a presentation there's at least one orthopedic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  regret how I spent my undergrad, but rather that it is a modality of living ... , in a sense, they're both oversold—the truth, I think, is unsatisfying ... and under stress, that is, when you need to make the decision to quit. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  free time that I have. Here’s a picture of my bookshelf that has grown ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  here it is with a visitor. I'm at a loss for how to caption this one, but ... I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... . "Sure! I'll take a ride back, why do you have to go to Boston?" Turns out

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  liked it too much. Let’s say that Hong Kong is a city dipped in glossy ... Here’s how things have been going lately: I run a lot, I eat too much ... Perseids. In the end, I didn’t see a single meteor and ended up crying a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... I've never seen before, and there was a summer camp that I think is ... application to work on yet so there's not a whole lot to do with that. This is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  fifty-three minutes, and I want to take a nap. Since that is not really an ... this morning to harvest my cells. The good news is that I'll be doing two ... " is, as Dan noted, "a sound mind in a sound body". I did understand what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  birthdays, holidays, and what allowance I got, so that I could buy myself a ... Intuos tablet, which was a small black rectangle that I’d plug into my ... on in my pursuit. I doodled in a sketchbook here and there, but it

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  the financial aid award letter. In June 2019 I wrote a post about how I ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful ... _row images="72280,72279,72278,72277" caption="admittedly, i do not have a lot ... little more food or food that is a little higher effort. It's also a fun

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  year, I received a letter in my mailbox that would change my life forever ... . I grab a third of the tricycle that currently sits in my room (aka a ... CPW where I will actually be a juggling homeless person in The Guy Who

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a ... lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... building full of friendly people your age). I also had a chance to do lots of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  high schools, highway miles, and an MIT story waiting in rural ohio ft. Max B. '24

  

  intro out of the way: my name is Max Burns, and I majored in course 2A (mechanical engineering) with a concentration in medical devices. I graduated ... Stanford for my PhD. I grew up in Logan, a small town in southeastern Ohio

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the ... thinking, “hmm I wonder what happens if the glass gets cold how do you even deal with the glass getting cold?” Rest assured, there is a solution that

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  > weather," that I got it down to about 1300, which is still pretty bad. then ... "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in ... 's quote "there is a vitality, a life force." I love this quote a lot and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011