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• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  that the walk to the supermarket is 40% slipping on ice and 60% slipping on rock salt. Wish me luck! ... : "Who is your favorite celebrity? Who is on the cover of the stack of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  On college applications, you’ll probably come across a question like ... mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... African American students have between a 40 and 49 percent chance of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  ? Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud. He has the story ... . The summer is here, but he’s not going on vacation. Instead, he ... family. I’m going to a whole other area." Graduating with a 4.0 GPA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  activities that provide hands-on opportunities. They include, among many others ... , the MIT vehicle crashed in the qualifying round, irreparably damaging 40 ... Development Initiative, DfC is a student-run group which has worked on projects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  ), Andrez (an awesome hands-on engineer), Nathan (already saving the world ... about 40-50 students, so I figured 60 students would be a safe guess for ... not, I hope you'll drop me a line here on the blog to say hi. And if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... was David Bauer from New York City, who did a project on quantum dots ... struck me on the day after Einstein's birthday, two weeks after an article

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  objects attached to them. Here are the things on and around my desk and also ... : My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of ... sharpener, also from Max. Paint I got on my desk while painting my room at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  exists  on the interwebs now, and especially especially happy because Sara ... Youtube recommended section is all knowing and powerful, and it gave us one ... , content warning, a part of it is really sad. emmymadeinjapan Again, Youtube

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  didn’t enjoy my other classes (I’ve been known to offer to take on other ... more focused on photography and then writing some accompanying text as a ... right now. I haven’t had too much work yet (knock on wood), but am

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn ... taking hardcore technicals, so I’m going back to farting on the internet ... all the human worries, I think I’ve only touched on academic stress and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] a pretty typical south dakota blizzard (although this one was ... also trying to find my place on campus, in many ways—but the lack of snow ... of snow built up on the ground, I felt this sort of intense kind of joy

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  amount based on employment through the school year and on expected savings ... physics classes. The students in the class of 2022 and 2023 were put on an experiment, where they could choose to take three of these on Pass/No Record

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online on Thursday ... ~5 minutes"]Beaverheimer[/annotation] or [annotation note="which will take ~4 hours and 54 minutes"]Barbenheimer[/annotation] or [annotation

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into ... . Let that sink in for a minute.) All I know is that this morning, for the last time, I put my Brass Rat on facing up. In a couple of hours, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  working on some important stuff for Bayer CropScience. Anyway, I'm not going ... blah blah WAIT blah blah FIVE MINUTES blah blah blah," it's a safe bet that you don't have to do anything for the next five minutes. So I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on ... this before on the application process here. This time, however, I wanted ... based on reputation alone. So, this AMA was about life, the universe, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  at a gym with a shower, as various vanlifers on YouTube recommended. I ate a civilized meal of canned beans on a plate, which was the last time ... and carried on. I wrote a lot while I was living out of my car

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in ... minutes sitting, slouching, kneeling, and wiggling around in various chairs

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  college applications whose deadlines fell on January 1. Not much has changed ... : This one was added to the list because my third and final sister wanted

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... -Black Friday ads). Later I dropped by the local climbing gym with a new friend

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014