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• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  chaotic spreadsheet, we’ve arrived at a (prospective) menu: Is it ... * This is where, as much as I hate to admit it, Uber delivery came to save ... I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... with how I was handling Unified, and generally a little worn around the ... inspiration, still feeling a little worn, but moving forward. The semester is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  friends and "good" conversations Musicals I like How my day is going ... Hi blog readers! It's been a few months since I've graduated, a time ... problems (my laptop's motherboard has a burn mark??) and vegetating, so

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... (I have a lot more unfinished posts on their way - as well as answers ... here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  -blowing new product. This product is a limited edition — and it’s extremely ... . So the question I hope you will carry forward from here is, how will ... This week on Blogs That Should Have Been Blogged A While Ago: "On

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... encountered. A frazzled post-doc in my lab today told me that science is all ... move on with my life. My grad student's policy is "you can make every

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My hope is that the students who are reading this will realize they're not ... applying to college. A funny moment while filling out applications. What it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... fashioned way, like a letter showed up in my actual mailbox outside my house, if you can imagine- and how freaking awesome it was. Seriously guys, go

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... Friday night. That's how pika works. It was a hell of a semester--mostly in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  means…what even is a kilometer?"]length of a football field ... ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized ... ! – Treading water is hard, especially in a pool that’s only four feet deep. Long

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a ... for me, that's quite enough!). There is a lot of language ... I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  light drizzle that preceded a good rain. There isn’t much that was ... . This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun is shining over the Boston skyline. The river moves with a gentleness

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing ... !”[/annotation] It’s like a lifelong game of iSpy. The ring is a great way to feel ... good nor bad, just a feeling. I am moving through time; time is moving

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  apartment cozier. I believe this is a pile of casting material for a class ... and some random machinery that I don't know much about. This is Emma ... This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Photos of Freshman Spring 📸 My attempt to take a photo a day for an entire semester.

  

  Period, I stumbled upon an idea for a Cool Project™. Blue Period is a manga ... last year of eligibility for a ~special program~ my local library ran ... be entered in a lottery for a $1000 dollar scholarship. For kids up to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • October 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  's already a device that does this, but it's much too expensive. 6) Charcoal ... I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working ... related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  complete and submit the QuestBridge Match application. If you’re named a ... additional MIT QuestBridge Supplement. You do not need to fill out a first-year application if you are a Finalist; the QuestBridge application and MIT Quest
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  cambridge." "The Landau building is in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle ... Pretty much every day, I remind my friends that "if you come up to Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... , the last time I wrote, I talked about my work at a tribal-rural hospital

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... -collegiate-ness. If that's not the best idea ever, I don't know what is. It's meant to ... time riding in a group, and I'm still a pretty novice cycler. ... About

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008