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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  thinking, “hmm I wonder what happens if the glass gets cold how do you even ... in the place you would like the glass to break (it becomes the weakest ... necklines, as opposed to 3 in a general snowman. Whatever, I thought. I

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

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  would be. how very many lives you must be able to hold in your hands, if ... I fell behind, sometimes I would combine prompts, and I actually ... when I look back over the stuff I wrote in Oct., I really like a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit ... how good a post can be. i am optimistic by nature, so whenever i ... was being a bit unfair; i probably would’ve had a similar reaction

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Report et al, I would suspect that your Midyear Report is in your ... and I do not know if MIT would accept score reports in March! Right ... schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  thought of where I would be if I had chosen the fork in the road marked ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook ... obvious, I would think, is that I'm not even actually serious about becoming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Wrapup Final thoughts on Campus Preview Weekend 2006.

  

  For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite part? What was the biggest surprise? What would you tell those who couldn't attend? For those of you who couldn't make it: What would you like to know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad

  

  sin un sistema operativo. Después de tres días, a merced de How-To Geek ... . Algunas tiendas, como Best Buy, incluso le devuelven dinero en forma de crédito de ... procesador Intel Core i5 o i7. Si puede conseguir el i7 mejor, es más rápido

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  have any say in how things were run. I didn’t have big plans to do ... MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in ... as the most relevant to how I’m feeling.   i found myself

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull ... ,[/annotation] indeed............. I decided to go to Firefly back in May. the tickets ... -COVID (lmao), and since I had already planned on going to a festival in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  more people in a day than I would in a week of high school, I felt ... 1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  the research I would do in the coming years. I applied for a long ... Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... note="I wonder how that'll hold up with inflation"]$20, 20 years from now

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  anything that felt off. Every once in a while, I would begin to feel hopeful ... do. And I was so afraid that we would forget him. And, in some ways, we ... ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  out how the paper was meant to be written: if only I had checked in ... thought that by going to ask for help, I would in a way be "cheating": it ... through all possible scenarios in my head: if it was locked, would I walk

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  feeling totally shaken, but having learned more in that hour than I would ... more depth. I decided way back in freshman year that my concentration would be Literature; I love the department here. Sure, it's "small

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... is now.) Anyway, I know I got some quality naptime in on Friday, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  longest I had ever been away from home prior to then would be my three week ... temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an ... hope that I'm not in the room when they are put to use and I must commend

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school ... Solitude back in late 2020. I love The New Pornographers because of how ... By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  your computer in its entirety.) So I actually did this "interview" back ... times when I felt pressure from my parents to practice piano. In the ... : I don't think I can single out one specific experience. I would say

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  . Bryan: Hey, long time no see. How was Cambridge? Friend: I really liked it ... I was in lab on June 9. Welcome to graduate school! (I actually chose ... tissue engineering applications. Aside from my time in lab, I've been

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  . Mike asked how much time I spend on homework each week, and if it would ... 's probably not all that terribly different from the SAT II in biology, but I ... unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005