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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I ... undergrad, except that I have less work to do, I live in an apartment rather

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... ’t have enough to do in my life already and that this challenge would be a ... invincible for two weeks in October. I was glowing. My mood took the most

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  would try to catalogue EVERYTHING! I took my camera, two memory cards, and ... of the criteria that I'll be looking for in the guest entries I publish ... paragraphs in your entry (personal peeve, I hate writing that is just a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  songs. I learned 3 things. The Girl described in "Girl All the Bad Guys ... seniors in high school. I am now a rising senior in college. It's crazy how ... chemistry in high school.~ I was young and naive and blissfully ignorant of 5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... making longer stitches, which would be required for a fancy dress, I tried ... moons embroidered in gold. I love celestial aesthetics for the idea that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  ramen place in Porter Square), but also I've left behind a lot of good food places I really enjoyed (Umami Burger, that one tteokbokki place in ... was very cozy in the Lyft. I stared outside the window, watching

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  Ideas Weekend was my calling. I sent in two event proposals, and thought ... Ideas IAP started off just how I imagined. In the first week, I practiced ... touched 18.03.   In a desperate moment of clarity, I sat down to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... factor in my college decision-making. In hindsight, I’m grateful I wound up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  MIT and he graduated last year with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. I ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  touch. MIT Hopeful wrote, "I believe in an earlier post Mr. McGann had ... , "is there any sense in applying next year (again as freshman) If I am ... Admissions website. I don't know exact statistics but usually we see hundreds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... taken Spanish Conversation and Composition in the fall semester, I thought

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  in the 3+ months I've been here. Being at MIT has really opened my eyes ... --it's just not something I considered would be a part of cold weather here ... of you in Boston, I highly recommend going. There's a student discount

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there ... class with him, and he liked me because I helped other students in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  . Occasionally I would receive emails through my website from people who were ... -6 videos in bulk, and production would be done horizontally; for example, I ... years--was knowing that I was making a difference in the lives of hundreds

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  Methods In Aerospace Engineering" but I think a more appropriate name would ... much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in ... something therapeutic about complaining. So in keeping with MIT tradition I am

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  when you buy/order something at a store. I think it's in their employee ... とうございます！） So I'm in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT ... location when I was still going to school in Taiwan). Also, I'm trying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  , I chuck it in my calendar with the event name and room number. Some ... , which I paid for. lunch: I was in the IDC and there were wraps on trays in front of us. I snatched one! Yum. dinner: I went to a Sloan event

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... -important survival stroke. In the past, I’ve taken: -Boot-camp/Conditioning: Taught by ... relay race! -Golf: I was technically on the women’s “Varsity” golf team in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... Wonderfriends in Walker. Go go gadget radio! Hanna and I play obscure music with ... babies, until I realize that Jose '10 across the hall would kill me for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007