Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all ... that a 2400 on the SAT is not necessary, you will probably try to find ... addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the ... equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... binaries to indicate the existence of a binary star system. So, when one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  [by Janet Li '12] A house decked out in Mardi Gras swag in the ... everywhere in NOLA, from the decadent parade floats that seem to be a year ... encompasses a variety of different specializations, ranging from urban design to

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  Relations and would like to study abroad in China. Can you tell me about MIT ... minor in Applied International Studies. As for going abroad to China, MIT ... to answer in time, but i'm STILL struggling to decide between Yale and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  , a small city in the Liaoning Province of China. My grandparents have ... China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to

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

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Janet Li ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... teaching creativity-building educational modules at a youth shelter in Phnom

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  . [annotation note="I got distracted for a full 20 minutes while trying to find ... similar to this recipe. It was my first time using a cheese slicer, and it ... that to which it was accustomed...–is always lived (in a certain fashion

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  : learn how to cook For someone living in a [annotation note ... manage to consume in a single sitting"]Haribo gummy bears,[/annotation] and ... . Acquire Hardware: use all the facilities in n52 As both a 4.021 student and

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  Period? Nope. Believe it or not, I used IAP to go on a three-week vacation ... details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map ... . On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  highest to lowest pitch). we use musescore to arrange songs; it’s a free ... and harmonies that don’t exist in the original song to create a thicker ... -person concert theme, from fall of 2019, was liOhm king. to pick a concert theme we

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  women. How to use: Personally I would not opt to stay in a strange man ... cast your net [annotation note="It's rather like finding a UROP in this ... age, such as 21 or 25). The bios are also a great place to find if a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  you serve? 5) Are you able to offer a healthier menu (e.g. lower in ... One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT”  just to name a few. This last

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  without a formal AP class. You may want to annotate those exams in some way ... application, "Please keep to a 500-word limit." Kevin says in his blog that 650 ... grade) to North Carolina. I am in a position to choose between two public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and ... motivated my desire to be productive faded within a matter of days. i thought ... and do the things i never got a chance to do before or at MIT, but

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

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland ... community. With privacy becoming increasingly more consequential in our day-to-day lives, I was interested in exploring how I could use my background in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly ... living room where a stately Bird of Paradise used to sit, that is now where ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I ... to this service leadership program taking place in China from Jan 16 ... -person interview, I had to talk about myself and my particular interest in China and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  backward correlates with a small increase in the number of fatal auto ... costumes. In my freshman year, the “best costume” award was given to a guy ... , hat, and bib and used a hula hoop and plastic bags to make a giant test

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Quest IX as a kid and finding it hard.) I want to put on the record that I ... to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find yourself in, while trying to discover what caused your laser-guided amnesia

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022