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• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of ... the names of their kids' schools as status symbols. You've craved an ... world". MIT is not one of those schools. It's not a holding pen. You will

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 ... greatest number of times. [caption id="attachment_41597" align

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was, you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... meaning of the word life is, or what the meaning of the meaning of the word

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... 's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and some of what I learned! If you're interested in learning more about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of ... school (which is a phrase that makes me sound like I'm 64 and recounting my ... wasn't true at your high school, but in all ten classes I took there was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="493"] high school vs college: the duality of ... my freshman year of high school, and it was such an incredible ... friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  offered financial aid for low-income students in the form of TechCash to ... was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People ... some form of a "month-long winter break". And it isn't not a winter break

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  four easy classes and a return offer under my belt, I had a lot of extra ... in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  of cool things i had applied to (externships, GTL) in order to go hard ... , because my boyfriend is doing GTL and SO MANY of my friends are gone as well ... screenshot of hell[/caption] [caption id="attachment_50017" align

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  hippie-leaning city of Austin, but still. Though the state leans right ... , Texas has a strong presence of different political views across the board ... Product Design Engineering Intern at Apple. My job felt meta: working on Mac

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  processes and provide words of wisdom, but we can’t write about what it’s like ... a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is ... ’s a pretty good gig, to be honest. This application was designed mostly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  (RA). Many of you may still have questions so I'm posting a quick entry ... EA but ran out of time. If you are retaking tests in December or January, you may also designate MIT as a score recipient, and we'll add them

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  -intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class ... analysis of natural disasters on natural resource firms) and a 10 page ... maximization). As you may have guessed, 14.33 also requires a lot of work. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  ’t do well on most of them, unfortunately.  Grad School??? After going ... the GRE, we would've had to start studying in senior year of high school ... programs we found and are feeling excited about the idea of school again

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited ... 'm five. 90% of things I'm learning very much can be explained in simple ... "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  . We talked a lot mostly about what we've been doing outside of school ... So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high school, Curtis '10, and Adam and Lia, who go to another school in Cambridge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  via US Mail to Professor Jan Wampler, Director Of Design - Undergraduate ... I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  about the social impact of the gullwing design in the 1950's. But, alas ... DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates, authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan!" Well anyway, I just got 11 hours of sleep last night, so I finally feel

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies aka i ramble about logistics at for a Very Long Time

  

  to make some sort of bad ideas flavored blog for our Pi Day ... . 7 The Dawn of a New Project That is Not Good for My Academic Wellbeing Near the end of IAP, this email thread was revitalized, and after the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 13, 2026