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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in ... of things that refill my will to live, both with 4 songs. The longest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... exercise...) As we learn, the impressive-looking parts of parkour have ... , a version of multivariable calculus that starts in the fall and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  .65 (Cognitive Development) class, we've been talking a lot about the nature of ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku ... , working memory and the visuospatial sketchpad, long term memory, etc.), and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the atrium of [annotation note="the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building ... was told by a now-graduated member of the class of 2020 that a lot of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  (#MIN87) being at Bullhorn's new headquarters on the 17th floor of 100 Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... startup scene and meeting more and more influential people. The center of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  /Chris Perry) It's pretty much felt that way since the beginning of this ... a lot of work all the sudden, and it's terrible. Ask my roommates, I ... content of the class. But you should probably ask me how I feel about it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  people ushering you inside; the person nearest you hands you a pair of ... 's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of chairs, broken only by two sets of stairs. As you go down toward the front

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank ... all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... research involving polymer chemistry. I enjoyed the best of a friendly ... difficulty in integrating into a German community; the vast majority of people

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  cambridge, and we quickly discovered we had the same memey sense of humor ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t-posing. a little silly looking back, but you must kill the part of you that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... /c) airplanes, both of my UROPs center around the development of unmanned aerial ... picture of me taken on the day my parents brought me home from the hospital

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story ... MIT was one of the few who (on their acceptance website) congratulated

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually ... seminars to attend. It all takes time. That's part of the reason I dropped 6

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  , and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... semester in differential equations. I walked out of the exam room confident ... end of my last post that I had gotten the job, but I am now through the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute ... misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to about MIT's supposed lack of fun, but also because I used to think the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  of the important bits and some of the funnier jokes. Pictures could be ... insert pictures while typing. I did manage to catch some candids of the ... ??? Anyway, the debate is now beginning, more word soon. 8:11 pm Master of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... okay. Anyway, he is a former winner of the New England Division III ... Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Pretty cool. And the winners of the ... reducing the radiation exposure of both patients and doctors the "Vac ... bunch of other cool "ideas"!   Photos from the judging session are

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long ... 'll start reviewing applications sometime near the first weekend of November ... . Track the status of your application at my.mit.edu. Students like to call

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012