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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  at MIT. Sam's Mom and I are headed back for Boston tomorrow morning ... MIT guest in Harrisburg, an 800-pound butter sculpture, and, of course

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  waiting for my early action decision from MIT… *cue psychedelic time-traveling music and hand waving.* MIT was my top choice and applying early action ... assumption that if I didn’t get into MIT then I’d worry about the other ones

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Preparations First my birthday, then halloween!

  

  Yes, it’s been a while since my last entry…much has happened. I am now the ripe age of 20 years old, after a weekend of birthday celebrations in New York…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Back to Boston Recommended Orientation events

  

  I am flying back to Boston tonight (why do I always book redeyes?) and can’t wait to meet all the new ’10s. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been…

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selection? They're selecting the earlies...

  

  think about anything but applications. :-) My application period for MIT ... about nothing but MIT for a while. Hang in there and feel free to weigh in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  long lines of students. MIT students do not pass up free food. So apparently, every hour today, MISTI which stands for MIT International Science

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  Occasionally I’ll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what’s going on in the scene. Often I don’t even know what’s…

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the ... for dinner. From there I headed to the Mr/Miss MIT pageant in time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  Yesterday's tie was red, and my subcommittee was McGregor (also MIT '00) and a current student (from the Middle East). Aside from some ... Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  It will be a while before I return to MIT. Following in the footsteps of many other admissions bloggers, I'm withdrawing from MIT ... : ask-allan [at] mit [dot] edu

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ,000 [aquaporins] per square micron.”  which is kind of vague (what do you mean, up ... ,000 number That’s half the terms I want. This is going well.   1:37 am ... sheets?   1:57 am: This is the sixth paper that tells me

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  what is a home-grown, born and bred, red-blooded American hick. It ... , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a ... short time) which is some 5 miles away. Someone asked me recently how I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... winter still astonishes me. Okay, the air is spicy and the sky darkens much ... how "black box" some of it was. Maybe this is how I feel about computer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  humanities, social science, or language teacher. Additionally, a letter is ... Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get ... do to help us (and you) is make explicit in their letters any
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  algorithms that randomly generate a new world. terrain generation is a little problem that i really find quite interesting. this is going to be me nerding ... , producing something that looks like this: this is random, but it looks like

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  . Right now, it can feel like the most important thing in the world is what ... truth is that there are uncountably many factors that go into a decision ... mattered. Embracing the unknown is always hard. But it's good to practice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  to me, which is my usual style. I definitely couldn't keep this up all ... :) Les voilà! (Lisa's is first, then I alternated them; also, she likes ... , water, and debris pool in the dips and valleys. The wind is still now

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  class is so incredibly relevant to daily life. (warning: i'm about to ... - google calendar: The idea behind interval partitioning is that you have ... know how to do this, but why is this important?! And why should I care

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  I secretly love Taylor Swift. It was tough, but they say acceptance is the first step on the road to recovery. My phone is a RAZR - not one ... old this phone is. Most of the screen has broken off. My girlfriend

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of ... for it, which is so good that literally every university with an ... , is unsoberingly motivational. ...I'm also reminded that I should go to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011