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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  of homework, with a fourth packet due this coming Monday. I've done ... action admits -- they had a meet&greet sort of event for students ... took a week of going to bed at 8PM and getting up at 4AM to shock me back

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  to catch up with many old friends, and of course to see my old roommate tie the knot. If you're wondering what a random sampling of MIT alums 3 ... member of the Foreign Languages & Literatures (Chinese) faculty and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  back at the registration desk since a little before 10PM. I'll get out of ... them online for so many months! I've taken a ton of pics which I'll post ... day! Me, at the beginning of CPW, still with tons of evergy! :-) Mari

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... with your interviewer to send us an extra (first?) copy of your interview ... that 9% of these students who choose not to interview are admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  below are in the format of Poem Title by Author (poetry form) Table of ... Mejia (Triversen) the rotting and fettering corpse of our love sits ... Spring by Alisa Hathaway (Blazon) my room contains a giant looking glass of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  December, when EA decisions were first released. As a result, some of these ... terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the majority of my friends, and how to essentially survive my first year at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full-of ... I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so ... the absolute freedom of just being able to paint an institute wall, or

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... steak in the shape of mettaton's face, dog salad, instant noodles, popato ... square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  something along the lines of, "Oh, you know. Gonna roam around Boston :)" as ... out of using one in the first place. I didn't worry about perfect lines ...  from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... page. For most MIT bloggers, that change is documented, like dozens of ... of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I

  • by Ella T. '25
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  technique of choice is to delete files en mass and never look back. It is also ... has led to hundreds of notes to delete, and I thought I'd share some particularly insightful ones with y'all. I. Little Bit of Everything  

  • by Ella T. '25
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... doing badly. This is one of those quotes that works better without context

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with ... ’m in Cambridge, reeling with a move cross-country and the start of the ... whirlwind of finding an apartment in Boston. No free-food events, but plenty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... orientation, and I felt [annotation note="I was older than most of the other ... want one more year of Baker breakfasts with the boys and I want to start

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... opportunities is much smaller. The program lasts a relatively short amount of time ... of 9 externs at Brain Power, 3 in Web Development, 3 in Product

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  called HMMT. Princeton’s version of this is called PUMAC. HMMT sends a contingent of roughly twenty or so people to PUMAC every year as volunteers ... of my friends in high school who were coming to compete. We meet at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... field, because STEM is what consumed most of our classes and time and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  feeling of ziplining through the trees. [image_row images="42907 ... using [annotation note="This gives me a lot of nostalgia: https ... intended to major in here at MIT. [annotation note="Of course, it makes sense

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  last updated: october 22, 5:15 pm   my hall, 2E of Next House, has an annual fall tradition in which we play a hall-wide game of ... two bandanas, one on each side of their body. the bandanas have to be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018