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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... thing in particular—how accepting would that group be of my sexual ... knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011