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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me ... to try tapping again with such talented dancers.  Afterwards, I had a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to ... breath. Between our cousin threatening to toss him off a bridge and ... , people order a bunch of food to taste and share together. The entrees were

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her ... Sarah and I always escaped to the park.  One year we made a daily pilgrimage to Eegee’s, which is a Tucson sandwich chain named for its fine

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... 's what I like to see on a problem set. :) ... into strands of spaghetti. Our professor obviously had a good time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  might also not be so smart, so we decided that a good place to start might ... we had more important business to attend to. A chorus of "Kuwait ... the world, but it actually looks like a really cool place to give a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a ... to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I ... , excited. True to form, I’ve arrived at South Station perhaps a little

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  some point, I took a break to refill my mug, pausing on my way out the ... the good life?” and on the very last page I underlined “to such a degree ... will live in my new apartment for a year while I commute to and from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  stuck in a loop, constantly going back and trying to find a better ... on in my life, let alone how to write about it." A lot has changed in ... lot of material relevant to my UROP as well, as a plus. 7

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  graduate school to being a professor, or from medical school to being a ... would be huge: Go to college. Go to graduate school. ??? Be a ... took a leap of faith and applied to MIT. I took the first steps, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  12 (the last day of CPW :( ) Chelsea and I boarded a plane to San José ... MIT alums...to the point where most of my dinner table was wearing a ... , then parents. My friends Sameer (a junior at Stanford, who went to middle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the ... challenges. My SSP application, then, was a plea for connection, a desire to ... ="111012" image3="111039" image4="111058" /] On Saturdays, we’d pile into a bus to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  important thing is to be true to yourself. We know you lead a busy life ... writing about a myriad of other things. I posted to College Confidential ... ’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way in which you

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  mind a second time. for example, people at mit sometimes decide to switch ... realize they made a mistake but feel that it is unacceptable to switch back ... -startups. or, for an example not related to career decisions, people often exit a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  day to write a long, thoughtful, and very personal email about how much ... hard it is to grow a channel until you start. Then suddenly, you see ... schedule them to publish on their release dates. This ended up being a more

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

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  enough to know what he's doing, a rare combination. I think I'll be able to ... gather, it has a lot to do with internal forces of materials (twisting ... like the plague, so being willing to practice it is a huge first step

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  to be a junior next fall. My schedule for next fall will not have any A ... to ask it anyway. My school offers a class called Intel Science and ... in? Do I have a chance to get into MIT considering the fact that I will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  ,100 incoming students. It was a blast, and so this year, I applied to be an ... this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive, campus-wide game. I ... would actually want to play, and this was my chance to make a game on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes ... picture for you - FPOPs are a great opportunity for you to do things outside ... introduced me to MIT, Cambridge, Boston, and a new group of awesome friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I ... someone a surcharge to buy him a Diet Coke from Verde's and bring it to Mac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  be angry, just annoyed, and you’d have to spend time inserting a new ... machine to measure the distance between the two. The void reduces to a ... of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023