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• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks ... summer, but decided that ultimately I hadn't devoted enough time and would

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  my life. I think now, in college, it recently struck me how differently ... journaling as much as I've wanted, and I've slowly transitioned from writing in ... .) Buy/Make Holiday Presents Practical suggestion! I like making any sort

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  because it was all I had lab experience in and would be the easier route, or ... 'm in the latter group.  I came to MIT intending to major in something Bio: Course 6-7, or 7, or maybe 20.  I had loved AP Biology in high school

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don ... awarded to an MIT professor just a few days after I learned how quantum dots ... ! OLED Displays How can plastic become conductive? In materials science

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  atomic physicist. In fact, I definitely would have tried to angle myself ... wade in. It’s the coldest water I’ve ever swum in, but it’s not as bad as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  nuts, would I get in or not, if I did which would I pick, and if I didn ... In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... we would actually find out. I'm told that all the letters were mailed

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  voices in my head always used to be questioning, that I would go back and ... , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  women. How to use: Personally I would not opt to stay in a strange man ... living in a hostel -- I imagine that would be draining after a month ... my life. I'm really, really glad I did it. But would I do it again in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  make the choice to go to MIT again, would you? I'm a little embarrassed ... , in some form or another. I live in French House, which has its own system. We cook dinner in teams of four, which means that I cook once a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  've experienced in college. I would like to give back somehow, but I'm not really ... dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... , they seem to appear in flashes way more frequent than I was used to. And

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  I would concentrate in, having taken three different subjects in three ... would be so happy if I could show this in a way other than my MIT ... concentration in writing in one semester, and it got me thinking - maybe I could

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... pump really does do the pumping” I would not buy these pumps   2 ... other paper, by a lot I would do a confidence interval but not when n = 2

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  do! Angela ‘24, Karthik ‘22, Emily ‘22, and I spent who knows how many ... it out :'). wait are you in [annotation note="dynamics and control I"]2 ... his number in our animation drafts to scare him. Audrey: how do we end

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Adventures in Italy, Part 1 Chi, chi, chinotto

  

  way. Saturday was the big day. However, I slept in and still hadn ... when I finally made my way through the line. 2 hours later, we were in ... barrier. I get thirsty very easily, so in the airport, I wanted to get a

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  summarize the entirety of my MIT experience in one sentence, it would be: I ... (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... during those weeks what they thought life would be like in 2020, they would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  's basically the word "nonsense" in plural noun form, and I absolutely love it. I'm coming to realize more and more how few words have exact ... Spanish, so I don't feel out of line putting it in this blog. They

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  up late. Last semester, I found that my most productive hours were in ... saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a ... . Film (or write about, I'm sure) anything related to music in MIT. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first time how i'll be quite sad leaving this place when i'm gone. the familiar ... . the chicken coop in the backyard. the housemates who i've come to know

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  Mikhailovsky castle, which I lived five minutes away from in the fall. I would ... before I would leave for Russia. We went in the morning, so the museum was ... ended up with. I originally thought this would be a quick post to write

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021