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• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of ... her “20 New Ways to Tie Your Long Hair” class, so i volunteered my head']Learned how to use a hair stick[/annotation] Got stuck in a slinky Embarked

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  film "Giant Leaps," produced for the Giant Leaps Symposium: It ... that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  undergraduate who says she's been interested in astronomy for "as long as I can ... , presented the work at a recent American Astronomical Society meeting, where it ... detail how these jets change with time and distance from the black hole

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long ... deadline!), and complete it before Halloween, assuming you're in an area ... "grading" your essays for how many fancy adjectives you use or anything like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Two Things Just a quick update

  

  1) I'm going to be taking a 2.005 test in about an hour. Wish me luck! 2) The Prudential Center is flashing blue and yellow. . . does this mean snow tomorrow?

  • by Snively '11
  • November 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  of what MIT can be like, of how its energy can affect you, of how ... teach, and I expect that it will be added to the extensive list of courses already existing on OpenCourseWare. To gauge the extent of how well you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  example, and a zillion astronomers who want to collect data with it; during its first round of data collection, ALMA was over-subscribed by a factor of 9 to 1. How do you get time? You write. You argue persuasively for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  The scene: East Campus Talbot lounge like you’ve never seen it before ... fort is almost done, it just needs a roof. IHOP, a hut for cookie distribution, is done, it just needs painting. The monkey bars are stalled

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  , Eliza. "A Nation Of Meat Eaters: See How It All Adds Up." NPR (2012 ... temperature increase below 2°C. What Can You Do about Climate Change? It is ... area of the Africa! This does not include the land used to provide food

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  Hello, world. It’s been awhile. Mostly because I’ve been swamped. It ... getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I ... functionality as this fancy to-do list, but does a pen and paper have a dark theme

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  's "Messiah": Sam's Mom: "Does it have 'He Laveth?'" Sam: "No, that's from ... It was a music-filled, and unfortunately not work ... genetic?" Sam: "No." Mitra: "They learned it in 7.012 today." Sam: "Oh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  visit other floors if they hang around too long. It's not a competition to ... very outdated website here: It's almost exactly one year old! I get a lot of questions about how choosing dorms, floors, rooms, and roommates

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  idea how they managed to "bake" the egg, but I thought it was delicious ... a delicate, ornate design. I had no idea how it was made, but I really ... through a lottery. It was in the "Plant Room," a room on the sixth floor of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  rediscover home. It’s a coming-of-age tale, a love story, and a record of how ... Christmas. It’s amazing to see how Pokémon has been able to captivate ... of it. (250 words maximum)[/intro]   If you are familiar with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  December 1st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over ... consider you for Regular Action as well, as long as your application is ... mail it to MIT Undergraduate Admissions Processing Center, P.O. Box 404

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  yesteryear are long gone, allowing more fair play in the overall admissions process. Rankings. US News & World Report published its first set of ... not related to college admissions. He also discussed how the quest for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  documentation more than a month ago. There are a bunch of long, thoughtful, well ... weeks. It's taking sort of list form because I'm a big fan of lists as ... particular configuration is celebrated merely on the basis of its existence or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to ... realized that maybe it was time to try sometime new. So when I saw a UROP

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  can link it rather than having to figure out how to word it every single ... 't have to do every single thing at MIT and it is okay! How do I know what ... places is how vocal the community is here when it comes to seeing things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it ... under any other circumstance.    Do I regret it? No, not at all

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024