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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  I have been incredibly busy so far this month. I'm taking hours away from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time ... of homework, with a fourth packet due this coming Monday. I've done

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to be the year when things 'get real', at least as a Mech-e, and I found

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home ... holiday is cluttered with things I said I'd do during the semester and didn't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  I can't believe winter break is over. My time spent on vacation flew by ridiculously fast, and now, I find myself back on campus, wondering ... India, having clinched an externship there. Though I won't be traveling

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  class. In fact I'm in an Athena cluster right now, supposed to be working on my UROP but instead writing this. By the way, a few weeks ago I got a UROP! I never thought I'd be joining the ~85% of the MIT population

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for another of life's big rituals: getting married. Tomorrow, I will marry an ... following day, she and I will depart for our first trip together as a married

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  , clubs and UROPs are underway, and the realization that I have officially begun working towards my degree has settled in. This semester, I took 54 ... , here is my schedule: (NO 9 A.M. CLASSES HEHE) Every weekday, I start

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  Since you're all probably sick of hearing about my summer, I emailed the cheerleading squad to see if I could get anybody else's summer plans. Since nobody on the squad responds to emails, I got four five responses

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  forward to what is still to do. -- Goethe So I spent the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a ... my ears warm, I brought it along. It proved popular, promoting similar

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  Last semester was pretty rough, and I vowed to make this semester different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too oversubscribed), so instead I'm taking four classes, of which only one is likely to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately ... about recycling, etc. I consider reading it and decide to keep blogging

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have[annotation note="Except for when I sleep too little the night before, because I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while. Life has been... interesting the last few months and I'll blog about everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  (Preface: I am also sorry for disappearing. D:) -- So anyone who knows me knows that I have strange computer habits/superstitions such as keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  One clear Thursday night long ago I was playing ultimate frisbee on ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and ... unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the things I was planning on doing during IAP...and then I got distracted by, well, IAP. Oops. :) So, here's a quick recap of what I've done so far

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  agreements and the threat of prison I can't tell you a whole lot about it, but I can give you a basic feel for what I do. I'm given bags of action ... anything else I need, I assemble all of the action figure bits into a full

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  exhausting. I don't think I went to bed before 5 every morning. From BBQs to ... exploring of campus, I'm not sure my body can handle much more of this. Let me describe my last couple minutes for you. [background] I've just woken up at

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I'll have more real updates soon - I actually have some planned - but I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.