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• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  when I was in high school, but if I had, I think I would have asked Mrs ... . Mrs. Moore, because she had seen how much I had struggled in algebra, and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... hunt would contain 270--no, 271--no 271 1/2 puzzles, all in keeping with ... videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... 2 summers in Boston when I was in high school and they were so fun

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... a lot of other math majors would be (Random). I figured I would have ... of people. I've definitely succeeded in that goal, both at Senior

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  conclusion: I have a lot to do over the next few months. I would not be ... * faster than I am, and *very* patient. Reading: In the half hour before I ... I am a first-semester senior. As a result, my brain has been swimming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would ... surprising, but I’m willing to bet that in that year off, you’ll learn more ... year of college.) In my case, I took two years off and arrived on campus

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  out three days later.  Everyone told me that I would be fine in a couple ... ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out ... much as I could, it was never enough to more-than-pass.  I learned how to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on ... so back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew instantly that I would have to ... The day I’ve been waiting for has finally arrived. For over 20 years

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could ... ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... -screen interactions between the Friends, and I'll release that sometime in the future ... participates in conversations the most? How many words did each character say

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  ? Well, maybe. I would say that it depends whether or not you consider cats to be people, in which case I would whole-heartedly agree that one of ... around and hang out with me in my room or under my bed. One thing I have

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  was held entirely in Spanish, so it was pretty advanced, but I enjoyed ... imagine that I mix these two up quite a lot. Throw in de/di, se/si, and so ... ourselves to see how many words we recognized in each one. Then she'd hand out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... , where most of what I do is staring at a computer while it tells me how

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  policies on this topic that they've made public, I would advise folks to go ... applicant's Facebook profile to you, would you look into it? I don't really find much to be objectionable - it wasn't *that* long ago that I was in

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Hallo!  My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT ... work I’ve accomplished tonight:  I CADed up this piece for my robot in ... ’s what I’ll call it.  Here’s the prototype I built in lab today. It uses

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... . In fact, I have a free hour on Fridays before class in 10-250 (right ... the way to the east of campus (not as far as it would be if I lived on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  summer, I felt the need to hyper-optimize my time in ways that would be ... "how do i want to change as a person in college" or "what are my goals of ... an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  in IPA. Maybe that would be silly. (i'm uh... also not sure if people would let me do that >_< i would love to though!) Related to ... in the differential equation, the system that is my life, and I am oh

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  'd say, "Marge, I have a yen to travel." And Marge would agree instantly ... I was in China. Look, here's proof! : Just Wednesday night, I was ... much though, because of copyright issues. For my part, I was working in

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... from the bottom. And because I didn't talk about anything MIT-related in ... collaborative. But I can definitely see how the same desire could draw engineers

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014