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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  additional information about life at the Institute and it also helps the adcoms ... ) understood. That was my big :( moment of the week, but the trees and the ... in Taiwan that we only have two seasons in a year - "wet and hot" and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  walk around taking 48 units. This doesn't cover everyone, though, and ... ? But So-and-so is taking five! And that kid down the hall is taking six ... all. Above, below, or exactly four per term is your own choice, and you

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman and sophomore year, will be moving back in next fall, and plan to keep ... oatmeal+banana+yogurt and peanut butter+toast+honey+banana for breakfast

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you ... writing good ones! Follow these top tips and you'll be writing formulaic ... trouble following these tips, I recommend reading CMU / Parallel Universe

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make of it and the power rests in my hands. On days where I had my 10am 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first started college, 17 and still their innocent, perhaps helpless, teenaged ... catch it cheap enough, and any other bus when I was desperate and needed a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  look through a rather long list of names, degrees, and job titles ... finals in the past two days (6.0001, 20.110, and 5.13) and the looming ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  that quantum phenomena, as absurd as they seem, are real. And for once, I ... quantum particles and using those properties to engineer sensors that exceed ... quantum optics – think lasers, mirrors, and whatnot. Except instead of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of bed and put on pants. The smell of scrambled eggs brings me downstairs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually ... to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending ... living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would ... kick in. Get off the blogs and let out a few tears. Then watch some

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  graduated high school a year early, and had a few friends at MIT who came in ... of early- and mid-teenagers, those who, even though young, would truly ... coming from areas where there are not enough resources, and they have just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  in my life right now, other than finals week and Celeste. Celeste is ... game bundles and started playing two weeks ago or something. It's a great game, and I'm glad that I played it, and now I'm going to shower praise

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  take in one’s hand a thread which continues always and through all ... the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only ... , outlining the pros and cons of some decision. I guess my anxiety gave away my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  77 Mass Ave, wearing baggy sweatpants and a baggy long-sleeved shirt ... ) and together we ran across the street, to pick up another junior named Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  Organizing Fellow and, later on, Data Analyst for my home state of Nevada. I ... days swung wildly up and down. The more I pushed myself, the greater ... . But, as I approached spring break, assignments finally wound down and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  you a dollar for each body pillow purchase. Hypotheticals and economics ... semester. Here’s how that happened. 1. Mangos and Oranges Last summer, three of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... Chicago, you see, and I was still wearing my uniform--polo shirt and plaid ... was accepted to The Institute. I do often like to speak in analogies

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  sets and no commitments other than my UROP - which gives me quite a bit of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that ... crazy, fun, and/or ridiculous things I've been up to this past week. To

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for "talented and gifted children." Other than being REAL GOOD at reading, I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011