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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  Hi. I’m Andi. I’m twenty years old and already a pigeon addict. It ... .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I ... eyes, took a deep breath, and flipped to a random page. Little did I know

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  change from a D to a B, shhhhhh.) I'm excited to see how the institute ... part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A week before I got into MIT early action, I was rejected as a Quest

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close. Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  having a summer, only what The Ideal Nonexistent MIT Student would be doing ... strangers for a job, and three Skype interviews later, here I am! It turns out ... , linguistics...) are just right for a very particular project: looking at DEEDS

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... woman made a face. “PI?!” “Did you say PI?!” “I said it’s like pi,” I

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really far away from home for a bit. One afternoon that summer, while about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit outside, that there must be light, that I must have a dry seat and a wifi

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  scroungings from the emptied-out machine shops: a scrap of discarded 1x1 steel ... post from Paris. After I get back, I'll be starting as a software ... The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  ’s statement a while back about 21M.A12: Freshman Arts Seminar Advising Program ... talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in ... writing about the show. World of Wires is such an intriguing show. I did a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  Hi, I am Cadet O'Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... squads of around 9 with people from other ROTC programs like Northeastern

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  ). =/ Hahaha it's actually a pretty hard to read graph, but it's sequential by major number starting from the top and going clockwise. Taken from here ... Building 46." This is part of MIT-speak. Here's a primer. Each of MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New ... mind but there are a lot of activities planned for parents too. Obviously ... . Parent’s Hospitality Lounge Grab a cup of coffee or tea and chat with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  styles, extensive vocabulary (250,000 words from a vocabulary of 30 ... 's entry -- this is a challenging time for the MIT admissions office, and ... Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  concern I hear a lot from people who are not MIT students is "Oh no, if they ... , only a few minutes farther from main campus than some of the dorms. My ... camera, but he figured that "at least there will be a snarky comment from

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  teacher, Dr. V. He was a really simple man from the great state of Iowa and ... of phony phone calls from people who had never hit me up before. A lot ... and obvious. "Yes." "Well then why would you say such a thing?" I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  !.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus like MIT. We have a gym, a pool, a kitchen with free breakfast (including

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  love the feeling of seeing something real emerge from a sea of math. I ... see, this list is getting away from me a little. And I’m letting it ... !!! (unintelligible excited noises). Imagine this scene: young me (aka me from three

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  from a background of pure benchtop research, clinical research has been ... with a bunch of friends from MIT. I figured that if I read more non ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  suffer from cancer the way she did. That day, I began a binder full of ... choose from to do a research project on. I scrolled up and down the list ... frustration, when I couldn’t save a friend’s mother from dying of cancer

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  fun activities. We got an e-mail from Burton 4 proposing a Moonbounce ... close knit and tend to spend a lot of time with themselves. Burton ... something called an IFAF. IFAF stands for Inter-Floor Activity Fund. It's a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008