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• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  . I thought it would be better to hone my intelligence in one or two ... . In one notable example, I started to click with my CPW host, who hails from Zimbabwe, in the first three days that I met him in person. In fact

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  , or I won't go on the June degree list!) And so, in my last IAP, with ... ), watching movies in the lounge with my friends... maybe I'll even do some of ... month. I'm not kidding), competing in 6.370 Jomar '06: Working at his new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  , so multiple visits are encouraged. I know I'll be back in the fall for ... -death experiences in the span of 4 days, but I did. Tuesday night, I was all ready to ... , Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  in freshman year. I had learned how much commitment was “too much,” so ... a sense that I’d really learned a lot in those three hours. My ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is reflect on my experiences here at MIT. How am I doing in my classes here ... , I remember being average was "BAD" in high school because you needed

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... 1967. Haacke decided that he would do a line drawing in the sky with a ... 21M.A12 Does. Good luck to all you EA applicants! I was in your

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  -interpolated constellations swimming in celestial gutters cluttered with light pollution. As I ... packs of gum because I mentioned that the kind you had in your backpack ... while trying to catch a bus? And remember how I was so Oprah

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be ... worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to ... of the BPAFOSIPIDC: did he think I should become a licensed driver in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  My last assignment for the semester was turned in on Tuesday, and basically three finals stand between between me and the summer! (i have them ... studying for finals, I cooked dinner instead today. =p (it didn't really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about ... doing well enough" sentiments kick in. However... ...I learned about a different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  for you (in fact, I think 50% or more sorority women didn't see ... are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how ... thoughtfully, “This tastes like detergent.” That's how I lost my fear of cooking ... actually a bunch of beets. I swear, I must have been absent on the day in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... ocean (or just water in general) and I have had an interesting

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  markers of excellence in their application and I will understand that their ... you. Also, I personally love it when students let me know about ways in ... declaration is the best way to go. In an ideal world, everyone would inquire

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... ’ve taken thus far. I spend four-and-half hours every week in the lab (7 ... spot in the class would mean a lot. She wrote back rather quickly

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... I last appeared in any capacity on the internet. Though I do intend to ... this past semester, I thought I would close the year out first with this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  comment I would think comes from a place of him being very interested in his ... thousands of people who've ever lived in East Campus, I think about how I ... Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have ... any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  disorienting, and refreshing in an absurd way. Now, back to normal playback: I ... manner, by which I mean that I had probably forgotten how to add properly ... least I was in good company. The next morning, I felt oddly sympathetic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  lower bound on the amount of work I was putting in every week into running ... plots in python? You do now. Don’t know how to fit data to a model? You ... in the style of an academic paper. Looking back I was very happy with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022