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• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... I used to be. About to reread a favorite novel instead of chasing my ... factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  you, you're stuck in a Catch-22. Because no one wants to help when you ... , from the northeast to the southwest monsoon. Habagat brings in hot, humid ... didn't have shade. In Cambridge, there are some rains that feel like a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up ... that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to throw myself from high places with just a piece of plastic attached to my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  had to go through it to get to building 2 but in this case 2 didn't mean ... of bed simply to switch out of a class that was too early before promptly going back to sleep. I had never met Regina Spektor, been on a road

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for ... curveball, so to speak. In any case, it may seem like there are only two

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  '22, were teaching How to Stay Awake in a Classical Music Concert. For ... discussed which parts of an in-person program translate to a virtual one ... hopped on a Zoom call and invited whoever was around in ESP to join us. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... it,” he said. I used to feel that way about my social life, sometimes ... just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... communion. It’s a part of life we all have to partake in anyways, so we might

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  instructor. I hope - and think - that I never participated in a conversation ... "make sure I had a solid foundation" before moving on. It's obvious to me now, though, that I did have a solid foundation: in particular, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  in a few months. I have three and a half more years to keep trying ... , I can't even seem to get through a day on seven and a half. Knowing ... different MIT days; I can use my experience first semester to figure out what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  a spot, unfortunately..." But you'll get used to it eventually. In ... one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a ... to college, but he was sure that I was a great candidate for whatever

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  half full! We ran down, up and across the isles to find a row that had ... back to my room in Next House, ate a snack, and drank some tea. Since I ... . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  , in a way, to being woken up by sunlight, and seeing everything as ... empty my heart sinks a little deeper in my chest. I am filled to the brim ... talking. The next day a friend invited me to have lunch with his friends

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  grabbed some lunch and went to lab to crank out yoyos. A once in a lifetime ... , undergraduates, and graduate students had to share 200 tickets. In the end, 50 of ... Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... wasn’t a joke. Even now I’m not quite used to it: I’ll be walking by ... did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , like a misunderstanding about whether MIT students have to live in a dorm ... they might get in. I said I'd of course tell them to take a shot and see ... that was good advice and I ought to follow it myself. In March, a week

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the You ... /less well-known) vloggers all try to post a new video every day. It's less ... disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015