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• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... start failing classes. I know senioritis is coming in strong but hang in ... In case you missed it, MIT EA decisions come out next Saturday. That

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in ... everything that you've already told us in the application. If we did, what

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  an amazingly framed short film, i discovered as we screened it in class ... frustrating and I can't do it any more. I quit." Pause. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I ... film. I've had a blast in this class all semester, even if lugging heavy

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and some other ... Dilijan, a neighboring city in Armenia. I thought about how I would rate myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  thing in the world? I leave this as an exercise for the reader. I can ... ...and have you seen "Underworld?" My friends in Harrisburg and I ... Allison's new [Video Retailer] Movie Pass in hand, I vacillated between

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... ."]9 am[/annotation] I’ll be in the basement workshop under the Infinite ... otherwise, in years. I was reminded of Phoenix ComicCon, where I’d bounce

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  groceries you can’t find in the US for dirt cheap. Then again, I’m biased ... needs help walking now. They raised me since I was born and stayed in the US with us until I was 14. The last time I visited them was in the 9th

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention ... ". So there is an FPOP for entrepreneurship! I looked up their website to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  . *Inhale* I DECLARED MY MAJOR! I can’t believe it. After all the ... , there are no disadvantages (at least, none that I can think of) to ... explain how I chose mine. How Anna Chose Her Major Once upon a time, in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said ... largest outdoor market in Africa. You can find virtually anything there ... sell just broken, beat-up electronics that people buy for parts. You can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... using the same language? I can’t understand what they’re trying to say half the time! I stood somewhere in between – respectful of their

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan, you can get SPAM at Mc ... 't half-ass anything on Conner 2, unless it's every problem set I turned in ... tour of Boston that basically touched on every place in Boston I have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  So…I'm not sure exactly where September went, but in plain English ... rushed to the art supply store to buy materials that I didn't end up using ... home away from home away from home, it is pretty isolating in a way. I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  complimented me on the firm handshake I learned in Chapter 4. And then suddenly ... trying and failing to make change in their own lives, and I doubted an ... 's library and the number of problems in their life. I developed a general

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  was designing and making my website. And I think, yeah, maybe I can. It ... Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... there's such a spark and pep in my voice when I write, a passion and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to ... with onions, poured in two cans of tomatoes, dumped in half a bottle of ... can't find them in Germany). The general consensus was that it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  mine- I ordered it from BestBuy and had it shipped to my dorm just so I ... involved in the hack, so I knew all about it ahead of time. Last Saturday ... was even sent pictures to use in my blog. I think that's pretty darn

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the ... ) the next day and over the course of a week, I worked in a group with two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  table that is now less cool in comparison[/caption] I live in Simmons ... ! I love trampolines. I can’t do flips or anything particularly cool on ... in Indiana that we got from our neighbors and I adored it so…until it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to travel! (with the added benefit that you can escape January in Boston.) Last January, I took a Spanish conversation class in Madrid with ... each of the countries—I’ve put them on Google drive so you can check them

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017