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• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from which I stole the title of this post. Freshman year I was busy taking ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a ... It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two ... of a hundred battles. — Sun Tzu Start early  This time around I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  , my buyers withdrew their offer.  All of a sudden I had a house to sell ... this!" she said. She was wrong, of course.  I could definitely not ... wanting one. I took a job 1.5 hours north of where I lived not long before

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  of all college campuses. I personally like the mix of ultra ... (if you look up, there’s always some array of pipes, wires, gratings above), and the walls are covered with an eclectic mishmash of posters

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... big MIT event, there's a lot of hype, rumor, and mythology surrounding it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  too), and he (apparently) wrote an absolutely stunning letter of recommendation for my graduate school applications. In the first project I worked ... of them, I couldn't very well design my own experiments. Although I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living ... parents are sketched out by how hardcoar East Campus is :P). But any of us ... questions about East Campus or MIT in general! Some of you have probably

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  ----------------------------- 1. The first day of high school, I rode a unicycle to school. 2. I can ... in my two truths and a lie was: 1. The first day of high school, I rode a unicycle to school. Haha, I can barely ride my bike without fear of

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  of a school abroad. My question is: Will this letter put me at a ... New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... asks, "My higher education advisor told me that my school can submit some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  both of our busy schedules, we started scheming of red pies and balloons and some kind of sacrifice, obviously. Planning began. What I had was two cans of red spray paint and one can of black (from Bad Ideas Weekend

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  , “impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than ... the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... simple task or calculation could take two hours, most of those spent trying

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  faint hum of those Zamboni things which are busy scrubbing the hallways to a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by ... -druhdruhdrum sound of the crossing signal on Mass Ave is still audible as you pass

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance ... . Apparently, a local radio station was holding an end-of-summer concert at the ... unparalleled dose of relaxation. Before we knew it, we arrived @ the Hatch

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  averaged 2-4 hours of sleep after that until finals week. Then I ran away and ... break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to ... class called the "Nuts and Bolts of Engineering" in case I, y'know, decide

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• 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 / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  entire team was really busy most of the time, we didn't start working on ... , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  to actually read the name of the dorm they've been assigned to AND get ... standing in line in front of Laila! (It's always half fun, half awkward when ... !") Speaking of which, during Floor Rush at Burton Conner, I visited every single

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to high school-age students who have done significant work of their own ... From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007