Search

Search Results

• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  It's been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... weekend of absolute tomfoolery. With that said, I proudly present to you

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school ... being. A big part of this was learning how to cook and bake. I tried a couple of elaborate recipes that year, but for the most part I just spent

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  experiences of a lifetime. Last year, MIT didn't give us a spring break because of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn ... couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  eponymous book. Lewis first became famous writing Liar's Poker, a memoir of ... small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... odds of being seated at that dinner next to that Salomon Brothers lady

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  unwittingly snapped a picture of me in Diff Eq. around Valentine’s Day http ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a gastronomical bildungsroman**. *In all prepositional honesty, at least half of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in the car in front of us ordered. while passing the menu, we noticed a ... .... [caption id="attachment_54023" align="aligncenter" width="537"] only one of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  always liked the idea of reality TV - capturing real moments with real ... something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it ... serendipitous slew of events that happened before I found myself a part of this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... join a special program to study in France and get a side of buttery

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  Halloween was yesterday, marking the end of the spoopiest of months ... of my month. There were candy pumpkins, what looked like an entire Costco pack of fruity/sour candy, a movie, some foodstuffs, some other cool

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... friends again and thoroughly enjoy IAP. But another part of me is mourning ... friends remain here for another couple of weeks. That, and my family will be

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of ... steps!” Though not inherently obvious, they are words of wisdom. They are also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g.,        

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to ... write about something special: numbers. See if you can make sense of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a ... fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... taste of academic rigor. We learned with assembly-line urgency; papers

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... felt. The message of "being" vs. "doing," quality over quantity, and ... , members of the class of 2011) - that our admissions process is, and always

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007