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• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Not 30 minutes later, I found myself stuck (yes, stuck.) in the bathroom ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... House as 6 different dorms - New House, iHouse, and 4 cultural houses). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  , I'll instead attempt to demonstrate the part of MIT that can't be ... few hours blurred, but I'm fairly certain I toured East Campus in that ... conclusion to a CPW entry, it's not something I'm capable of writing, so in its

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  really got used to it. I learned a lot in 21M.302; I looked at some sheet ... My grades for the semester have finally all appeared on WebSIS, and I've passed all of my classes, so that means I am officially done with

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  with the field"]. I finished Oscar Wao on vacation in Germany a few ... modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... ,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   If you're interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... anything important happens after the deadline, you can always mail, email or call in any updates. Don't worry if your essay doesn't format as you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... Street, the North End's main drag, had to be closed to traffic. You can see ... an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  there? Well, there's beauty in the breakdown. At 5 AM, I'm leaving Burton ... Philadelphia. After a 6-hour nap, I'll wake up in Philadelphia and prepare to ... around 2 PM in Lancaster, I'll meet up with my friend Shawna, who goes to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers ... lung capacities can hike to the Pichincha volcano summit, which is at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... while everyone else was frolicking in the snow or relaxing at home, I was ... !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I ... made oats in the same pan, and was about to do the chicken, too, when I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  reactor startup targeting goals 7 years in the future, what can you deliver ... subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months?  Small wins build on each other ... .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I ... freshman year: "Considering my track record in math, I figured I'd need ... important message in what I hoped were large, friendly letters." This quickly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for ... new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT ... square with only a few hours of daylight left which I hoped not to spend in

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America. During that interview Hersh - who I think it is fair to say is somewhat

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  recommendations for the interview, which I think are pretty good: Review the ways in ... application and what you can tell us in the essays. Think about why you are ... are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!

  

  To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  , back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this ... students talking about the ongoing party. I had no interest in parties at the time and wasn't about to be let in anyways, so I didn't think about it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England ... his expertise in fluid dynamics to develop and, he hopes, patent his own advances in aerodynamic cycling gear. Not bad, considering that Cote, 21, is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  something. As we move onto 2016, I like to think about what in my own life the past year went well, what didn't go well, and what I could've done better. But, as much as we can learn from ourselves, I believe we can also learn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015