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• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  I'm turning nineteen today, without much fanfare; after all, nineteen ... reflect on the past year, and look forwards to what's coming next. Where are ... phrases that I might have been thinking about on that day, and outline the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  a good head on her shoulders. She's had a picture-perfect time at UCSC so far but couldn't shake the feeling that she was missing out on ... miss out on something, that is. I know all about waking up in the morning

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said ... mailbox. My parents are in NYC at the moment (today's their anniversary - they've been gone a week), and my stepdad keeps the mailbox key on his

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today ... committee's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on ... , with MIT and the class year each appearing on a separate shank. Thus the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  was working on my thesis I put out a call for a UROP to help me collect ... mother, who helps children with special needs navigate elementary school ... . As an undergraduate I TA'd six classes on law and technology. When I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  - Shakespeare, Western Civilizations, chemistry, Pre-Calc/Calc, band, and so on ... multiple disciplines.  I talked about consilience on my college applications ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  lives and empowering communities.   I put on the glasses and just like ... , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social ... top universities in the world. The conference took place on Saturday

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes ... helpful. Numbers mean nothing to us because ~70% of our applicant pool is qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  update you on my life since October! First, I've passed every class that I've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy ... music tech! My physics class continues into IAP (more on that later). It

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  On Broadway My first few days of fun in NYC

  

  On Tuesday after work, I saw The Producers -- not the movie, the show. Some friends from MIT, UC Berkeley, and NYU took care of waiting in line ... fun on the weekend. HAHAHA

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... interface didn't scale for different phone models, so when I showed it off on ... . Was it because I was finally working on a legit game project? Because I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  analysis, I discovered that I sleep more on the weekends than I do on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  makes! & Finally, a search for “IAP” on the blogs homepage will pull ... .E. ice-skating @ 10 AM on MTWR - I’ve been ice skating before, but am no where near comfortable on ice. Here’s a chance to change that. You might

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  .00.']like:[/annotation] Last year, my education was [on zoom, hybrid ... have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... the last one: "Who should I ask to write letters on my behalf? And the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  It’s been two weeks since I’ve been on campus. Two weeks since I left ... I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... conversations and “light reading”), I can’t help but draw a parallel. The past two

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot ... on biology-related projects at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical ... "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  are no silly videos of me singing off-tune today. There are no silly doodles that I drew during class today. Nay – today… we get down to BUSINESS ... , write a review of a performance and post it on your blog if you have one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  today!" Good thing I started writing this entry, because I would be up the ... cells today.) I ate lunch at ABP, which is a special treat for me because ... for lunch. It's on TechCash, but since I've graduated, there's no more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  fact, I usually actively stop myself when I get on that train of thought ... everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as ... of the restriction on serving open food at club events, I've eaten an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  ,[/annotation] others on dance teams on campus, and the rest just enjoy dancing. with ... from New York on Tuesdays and Thursdays for class. I'm really glad she ... like an ice cube," "float like a leaf on the ocean," and "act like a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023