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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  Mall, and exchange my tickets. A man says something to me ... ’s really excited to go to Metro State (a local community college) in the fall ... wishes me a good day and departs. I am taken after all--betrothed to my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  to have an infant within a 3 foot radius who's extremely unhappy to be ... seriously think the schedules when to schedule, a recursive paradox that ... the grill and waited for what looked like a giant space-burger to cook

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... day, I was pleased to note that it was 6 am, and a whole day lay ahead ... and a strong resolve to “must wake up early and do work so we can do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone to let you take a test. Once you hit a certain level of SAT scores

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... graduate with flying colors, you head to graduate school, generally to a Ph ... from four to six to a zillion years, depending on how fast you get your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I originally wanted to do during IAP: A micro-internship at a civil ... internship took up a lot of time, okay? Anyway, to the [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  cpw is pretty cool tho :D it's not perfect, but it sure is fun

  

  i seem to be physically incapable of writing blogs in a timely fashion, so in an effort to force myself to write, this will be a rambling ... –you’ll have to wait for anika to share the full saga. it was a beautiful, tear

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 28, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  To accompany today's entry about MIT summer programs, here is a ... these summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college ... , rebuilding a car, traveling to Europe or Quebec or New York, or whatever else

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit humanitarian project to put

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  ” section of the application, they will receive a personalized link to an MIT ... MIT requires letters of recommendation from two teachers and a Secondary School Report (SSR) with a transcript from your school counselor
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a ... and decided to give us a bag of things she no longer needed, but thought ... all the freshman things into a bag that now sits next to the Memory

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  this leads and how to apply it to broader situations than a colloid ... full runs of the show. I’ve wanted to audition for a musical since I got ... ’ve also had to act a bit (in a minor background role) and that has been

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... designed to be doable--and this is by no means a bad thing. It's important to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  ago. i'm going to have to deal with it for a few months. the internet ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... all the ways i want to improve myself as a person - but realizing i don

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... looking to dive into a theoretical physics book. Truth be told, you ... selection committee. (As a guy who is not wired to do science and math, I'd be

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot ... began to appreciate Charlie Brown for the masterpiece that it was. A ... sponsorship from Coca-Cola, a TV special began development. Due to the small

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a ... 't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the ... trained, so I feel much more qualified to write about it! It's a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... . Our room was like a maze for a few days. Responses to comments ... have the option to take a course or two in their major during the spring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... -intuitive results. To illustrate this, imagine that you are the CEO of a prominent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017