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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  one. Just a glimpse of what I did in high school: Summer '04 - Canada ... interesting memories...(I should go dig up my VPython model of a miniature ... , the people I met through my summers in high school taught me a lot about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  family had been completely normal. I felt immense guilt for not checking in ... call before he passed. I'm sure my host family didn't inform me for a ... my mom in such a inconsolable state was gut-wrenching. I immediately

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  the Alhambra in Granada. Basically I watched this guy make a landscape ... had few material belongings, but I was rich in life. Spain and Portugal ... to the MIT Mystery Hunt team I run and orchestrating a series of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  impressive) feat. I took ownership and pride in this work, a very, very toned ... that’s kind of what everybody else wanted to do in a VR space too. The ... idea what my final projects will look like in 2.00B and 6.S08, I know

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  our office might visit 50 or so of them in a year. I know from talking ... fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 ... today's entry to talk a little bit about school visits, so I won't let a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  test. Should have blogged it live. I wish it had a soundtrack though. 10 ... .) I confess that I've probably drank about half a bottle of balsamic in ... Secret, actually. Let's go back to the night before Sleep-a-thon 2009, when I was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  /news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1114446307 I will see you in class on Monday, have a good ... and die. I had this rule that I would write a blog entry before I would ... change that to write like 10 pages of our final report before I write a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  before on this blog that I had a “winternship” in new york in january 2020 ... pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in ... at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... Black Eyed Peas played to a sold-out crowd at the TD Banknorth Garden. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  taking it again, but I still felt very numb. I had a "wellness check ... in it other than venting. So I wanted to make a blogpost to counteract ... back on campus again in the spring. I have a pretty solid pod next

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... years in admissions, I've seen students take some time before starting MIT ... year as an EMT in Israel before his freshman year. This gave him a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of ... fully immersed in a cloud of good old fashioned cold symptoms and I wanted nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  walking into an axe murderer’s lair. But I felt a sense of trust when the ... ’t find it. (That was a long lonely month when I thought I lost it for good ... long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  my last one. As a senior, I don't really see the point in having my last semester be virtual. I'd rather live on campus, sneak in a few good ... deadline just to make sure I wouldn't change my mind. I put myself in a pod

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  later I went to a concert in Boston’s famous House of Blues, just a twenty ... rhapsody in blue   Even though I’ve only been here for a semester, I ... . Now, I will start off by saying: I am by no metrics, a musician. I don

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  When people ask me where I grew up, I hesitate for a moment before saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I ... very first stop in our weekend vacation. I had been the one to suggest a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  decisions before I gave my speech. I would go in and talk about Imelda Marcos ... , disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... another blow to my confidence. I went and hid in a corner of the university

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  "]bros[/annotation] wanting to broaden their horizons. While I've used a multimeter before in ... unmatched). I still don't know what a microcontroller is, but no one really ... [/caption] I often joked that 6.115 in a nutshell was, "how do you make something

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  what i did at a particular point in time and when, as opposed to a list ... action items for myself, or retroactive descriptions for what i did for a ...   i have a general color coding scheme: green are

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a ... , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had ... Meetings... it's a busy time! While I am back in Boston, look for my next

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005