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• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  , Electrical, and Aerodynamics/Composites. I’m in the latter of these, where I ... that you can’t see I clearly messed up. But in the end, I got a decent ... A quick note before I start: VOTE (if you can)! Find your polling

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  built, it’s a virtual space where the layout artists can come in from our ... . But I would say scenes where you can get a lot of emotion from animated ... epiphany are they going to come onto in the third act?” I think that’s where

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  that make sense with where I am now. i. ambition Now, in high school ... even broader. If I can get into some of the top schools in the nation ... Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I ... today. Charm School is an annual IAP event in it's 14th year where ... you have a library card? 'Cause I'm checking you out." "Baby, can I be

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were ... item in your hands and say, I know how this was made, or so you can look ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  This semester I built a Tamagotchi: a 2000s toy where the user takes ... II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project ... these components be positioned on your actual board? I had to keep in mind

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

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

  

  ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the ... 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

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

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  , dance performances, and more. Shikhar asked, "Can I send in softwares ... well too). Is the recommendation process set in stone, or can I use his ... . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  store in Cambridge?[/annotation] To whom will I bestow crocheted gifts ... skeins of yarn and unfinished crochet projects, I can say that I've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ...  ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  (i.e., in class while my teachers were talking...) I started reading less around the time I started high school, when paying attention in ... with?) Part of my problem is that although in life, I'm generally a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a ... somewhere better than our public school in Portland, Oregon. (I cast my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  can say is that there's a lot in the environment, the way that I grew up ... burn and itch in my mind, the things that I can't seem to get enough of ... Even though I'm now two years out of high school, I still keep in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... arrived on Saturday from Florida, where I was spending time with my family ... concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  phone number, his email, where he works, his wife's name, but i can ... the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in ... summer?" And Ashish wrote, "Can seniors also try for the SSP. I am asking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  I can continue to learn more. In addition to that, I've accepted a ... events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short little bubbles so I can talk about it more: I calculated my grade wrong

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

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  September 12, 2008 - September 17, 2008 I spent a nice weekend in McAllen, eating some great food and hanging out in the Valley. I had cabrito for the ... Michigan or Mass. 10am. I arrive in Laredo, check in to my hotel, and head

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  is the only class in which I'm not starting at the very bottom, since I ... classes and exams offered, but I didn't have any idea where I was applying ... really considered in admissions (I didn't even send in my scores until this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  where I felt I was meant to go, imagining how I’d install a WiFi enabled ... felt inadequate, worthless. Everything I had hoped for in the past months just vanished in front of me. Gone. Ultimately, I didn’t make it into

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal ... than the one near my home. In the two years I was there, I dedicated

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012