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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  doing research. Ever since I was a sophomore in high school, I walked ... awesome! I imagined that I would try new experiments, test new compounds, and write exciting papers that would be published in exciting journals

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  images out of text, I was pretty happy. So in the end, I would say this PCB ... minimum viable product (the bare bones criteria I would have to meet in ... 'd really been wanting to remedy. Specifically, I wanted to learn how to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the ... . Enjoy. I'm off to study for 7.05. In response to not-so-recent posts by ... none of the current bloggers live in ILGs, I'm appreciative of Keri

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  buying the tickets: Me: I would like a Student ticket to 4:15's 21, please ... caves in and joins the team, declaring that he would "quit after $300 ... completely honest, I would say that 75% of the movie is not based on the book

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  minutes after it was announced. So, I made a script that would text me an ... how I imagined it: 24 hours straight of hundreds of people huddled ... . During most breaks and in-between some panels, I pulled out my laptop and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  then; I miss having "simple" worries about how I would do on my next exam ... that that would be the last in-person lecture I would attend this ... storage, where it would be kept, and for how long. I didn't really trust

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  surviving in a car. It's lovely to recall how much of myself I poured in to ... , modern me stepping in, how interesting it is that this is when I learned to ... , though by how much, I'm not sure. Let's read it. Let's see how I feel. In

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  beginning this monster, I've decided to share happiness with the world, in the ... least we thought it was just in the rooms. The other day I was caught by surprise when I saw this in the hallway. As exciting as it is to have an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  important topics like how to walk in crampons ("walk as if you were a cowboy ... *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT Sandwich In The World™: (1) Slap together week-old bacon, lettuce, tomatoes

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  try to identify the MATCH in the people I meet here at MIT - it ... email inbox. You begin asking yourself, "Exactly how much help do I need ... what I asked in the entry I wrote before - "What is it that makes you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... taken Spanish Conversation and Composition in the fall semester, I thought

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  there would be like. REX is already in full swing at Random, and this is ... Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered in maple syrup. Bite me. We ... 's see how long I can keep up the facade of "being new to the US" and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  's Candy Bar (where I contemplated buying a shirt that says "I love nerds" on ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower (where we contemplated buying Donald Trump (flavored?) bottled water) a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  when you buy/order something at a store. I think it's in their employee ... とうございます！） So I'm in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT ... location when I was still going to school in Taiwan). Also, I'm trying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit our Tests and scores page. You are not ... the "Add new test scores" link in the application portal. We accept
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  little window to campus and show you how we here deal with stress. I didn ... on gloves, and called up a friend who I haven't seen in months, because ... , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  680+ would get you "in the range," but he said that I should definitely ... her that I would graduate high school in late june 2006. She said that I would be elligible to apply in her mail. Should I still apply to colleges

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

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  you learned some of these? I now know how many hours are in a week and how many weeks are in a year I learned that MEAD envelopes with ... 'm sitting here, freaking out about how I didn't "get in." Well guess what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I ... she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry ... my marathon training basically just dreaming about what I would say to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007