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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  , currently one minute early! currently listening to: a baby crying (nothing ... commotion of a conductor trying to figure out some passengers who had ... unconscious for most of the past hours. An hour and a half to Chicago—time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  research, from an organized beginning to a furious blur at the end. Step 1 ... Random to fall housing in McCormick (a sweat-driven Tuesday morning haul ... Japan to relax for a few days before returning to campus. I briefly looked

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful ... experience, make sure to obey traffic laws and try not to give yourself a heart

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their ... through a third-party service other than the MIT application portal
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  makerspace I just got access to, IDC, where there’s an embroidery machine and a ... . We talked about a project on a whim, and planned to meet again ... is an openness here, a freedom to learn, to try new things, get trained

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  After a short burst of productivity in January, I proceeded to not ... out of not wanting to, but nothing manifested even if I got a few lines ... have constantly been on a mission to better myself. By that, I mean

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part.…
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  allow me to tell you something exciting and maybe a little concerning. As ... writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... ? You only have room for a couple of activities, some may have to be

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I ... popped, it's been feeling pretty starchy as of late. Going to Harvard as a ... home to many a transgenic fruit fly and is slightly remniscent of Amy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to ... my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves ... 't reached the ending of this book yet. I was somewhat hesitant to read a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a day giving math problems to seventh-grade girls. A friend from high school visited me. I boarded a plane to New York, spent a day interviewing

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  turns out, it's not a good idea to accidentally push down on your laptop ... hall when you happen to have a bajillion questions about the exam isn ... I wrote a while back but never got a chance to publish; it's about MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  a little surprising - to read that Harvard recently awarded him the Q ... is a tradition in Venezuela, where Dudamel is from. According to the ... whether you like it or not) he had to entertain. As the conductor of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  like most of my peers, but hey, it seems to have worked out"]never had a ... , after some of the stress started to settle down, I started a three ... flexible, and I had a fair amount of say when I wanted to explore something

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  San Francisco, je t’aime nothing to do with mit :3 (...intern in cali! )

  

  ) out to the patients. Take a look! :P Common front side (click to ... weekends!) to explore the Bay Area. I made a list of all the tourist ... health internship." Little did I know that this would turn out to be an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  any niche topic you have to talk about MIT also has a lot of unique or ... solar car. everyone wants to talk to you, everyone has a passion that ... to talk to / get to know we’re analyzing a film in literature and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  subway system, translating to a rife chance to get lost. And lost I was. It took a few extra minutes of talking to Madison on the phone, and ... .” I ran up to Tally, and a short while later, I was standing by a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... say. In actuality, it's a tolerable idea up to the fourth floor, at which point it starts to become a pain-in-the-knee idea, progressing to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... to black polished submarines, I suffered a J.D. Salinger moment. A sigh ... to nudge my chair back at a glacial pace, I would imperceptibly bend my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009