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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  good time. however, i subsisted on oreos, mozzarella sticks, doritos, and ... two years. mocha moves — for my 5th semester on mocha, i danced in ... ="rebranded as Revive the Arts since other teams weren't allowed on campus this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  sight and I haven't even begun to process and reflect on what the past ... got to know at MIT and they've been nothing less of a second family on ... this sticker from some booth on campus my freshman year. One of two

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  my life was on pause but also on an infinite loop. I didn't like LA, in ... yearly post where I reflected on the paths I was considering taking in my ... on games aren't the software people. They have majors for game design

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  those kids that spent half their time in various awkward positions on a ... more like 20, on my list, so that I always have back-ups whenever one of ... Again by David Foster Wallace (nf) (ran out of time on the library loan

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  be the most important of my life, yet they felt so uninspired on the ... like on paper. Each little essay is a snapshot of you as a person instead ... enjoyably intense focus on or absorption in a task. Flow is the best thing

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

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  is based on Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir (subtitled A Family ... made me reflect on the stories I want to tell someday. Powerful theatre ... -in-a-while about online video. We focused more on digital media literacy – things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... myself, paying bills on time, maintaining long-distance friendships, and ... lot" on your resume--but nevertheless it is important to know yourself

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  years doing research in the Saeij lab on parasites and the Gilbert lab on ... to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is ... seemed more pressing than a 20 page paper on the Roman Republic. But I also

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  “best move” depends on what cards your opponent is holding. Playing poker ... to tell our bot to guess at what cards the other bots held based on how ... are over $30,000 in prizes on the line, courtesy of trading companies

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  a professor who's an expert on 18th century British literature. She ... 're interested, here's more detail on the classes I'm taking this fall: 8 ... and pushes you to come to the answers yourself; I walked out on Monday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  fantastic opportunities in the past year. Ministry of Supply got to present on ... observe a fish is to become a fish.’” He took a class this semester on ... of Supply’s goal for 2012? Kevin says they’d love to be on Comedy

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My ... jumped up and down and grabbed each other and tried to climb on the table

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of ... individuals, who are on fire for God, in order to learn Israel's importance to ... at American Airlines working on several projects within the facilities

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  . Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my bike.) To those of you who are still working on apps, I thought I ... on College Confidential (if you don't know what I'm talking about, don

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  Chesapeake area, you were given a bit of a treat on Monday night. Several people affiliated with MIT put on a live webcast from 77 Massachusetts ... flattering, sure - though depending on who you are, that Sheldon Cooper

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... make sure that YOUR name appears on the money order! Bugs Bunny, Santa ... working on that involved highly enriched uranium........that would be

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  wrote this on Saturday night, after the decisions came out. Different ... own balance. Keep on smiling. I'll keep you in mind. :) ----Long ago ... murmurs that resembled the angry buzzing of mosquitoes on a summer day. The

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  , Justin '08, is actually being featured on inc.com (along with his co ... freshman hopped up on idealism and tech-romanticism does: I got a UROP. In ... much so that I skipped out on engineering altogether one semester and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  concentration on one beautifully hand made piece of artwork, an opportunity to ... little lead pellets as ammunition. My pellets sitting on top of my freshly ... out the letters "MIT" on three separate targets and decided to shoot

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  players all ganged up on me. I was so close... (By the way, I just lost the ... résumé and started working on this whole "summer internship" thing. Should ... performed surgery on a pair of ferrets we had been studying - and I got to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008