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• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  trying to find disinfecting spray at Target at the beginning of this school ... prints of sloth shirts designed by members of ESP. I also have Intro to ... boxes. But where will I store the rest? One of my friends offers me her

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  of just helps me gauge my offers and remember my goals. Blog every ... coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting ... , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  . Instead of my childhood dreams of going to art schools in Manhattan, my ... , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers ... butter”. I design and sew my own clothes, including my winter coat, a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... it, and a tall, steep slide with no railings, a relic of past building

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings go, these things are pretty big hunks of metal. Second of all, they are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  of what each community has to offer in just three days, but you can ... mind (this is a school of logical thinkers, after all), but it is so, so ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  the FRESHEST of fresh, like the Fresh Prince of Bel-air eating crisp ... game character or piece of sushi. As a winged version of myself, I had the incredible luck of flutterskating with a Viking, a pot of gold

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  fact that it felt all so high school to me; that these were the kinds of ... previous experience with large groups of men in high school, who seemed to ... crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  Missa, Junior year definitely was a rough time. Most of high school feels ... next year, where I found out that my high school offered fencing as a ... floor of my school on Wednesdays until 6:30 came around and I could call

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  basic idea of GTL is that you teach a classroom full of high school ... work as basically TAs as part of a middle school/high school outreach ... really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  talking about grad school applications and job offers. I began to realize ... , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  things. This is going to be the defining picture of this school year, for ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into the 1918 flu epidemic suggests that closing schools and cancelling large

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  on January 31st, but close enough"]the month of January,[/annotation] MIT offers an "Independent Activities Period" where students do ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high school, which required considerable effort--when I heard Sam's Mom crying from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  , the more I learned about every aspect of theater. In high school, I was ... -costume designed the show with two of my fellow cast members. And the learning ... Star Wars Trilogy: The Musical Edition fall of my freshman year - the

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  waitlist? We offered 389 applicants -- approximately 3% of applicants -- a ... accept our offer of admission. Some years, we overpredict (as in the past ... the offer of admission from another college before May 1. After May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  been writing to offer me a job writing handouts for one of AoPS's ... all of this without ever leaving your room.  What are you going ... you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal Finance was one of two classes that the school administrators recognized as ... . (Inexplicably, the other one was Web Design instead of Wikipedia

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009