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• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  need to have submitted your application Part 1 by the time you interview ... recommendation forms, what are you waiting for? Teachers get very busy this time of year, respect their time! Try to get your application components to us in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  was symmetrical in order to reduce the need for aligning multiple parts ... redesigning the device. "We were having a really hard time getting fluid to flow ... benefit many people. UROPs are a big time commitment, but one can tell by

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  , you slacker." Well, I got tired of being called a slacker every time I ... Mitra and put up a really simple temporary design for the time being. So I ... templates in my spare time over the next few days, so if you ever load this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  you are not a good person. But that's just not the case. I think part ... , chronicled during his time at the high school: "Everyone wants to go to the ... need to be open to the, too. A lot of times, they aren't." Behind him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  Note: all of my MIT essays can be found online so if you're curious ... . Then, I took each important part and allotted it to a specific essay ... I wanted no part in. It wasn’t until I went to high school, where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times ... flavor text. The flavor text is stressing different components of time. First, the fact that "I can't get the times right" means that the "times

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  ?" or "can I part with this for an indeterminate amount of time?" boxes ... them behind. That's the part I keep thinking about. That day was – among ... [/annotation] (which at the time had very vague policies about what we could leave and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  take a break, there was a part of me that said this is valuable time that ... academics are an important part of your time here, but that’s not all you are ... sense no matter how many times you re-read it and you're really stressed

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... cup filled with cereal because I didn’t have time to get breakfast, and ... Rueda class, and I had free time, so I joined the circle and learned moves

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Here’s part two of my “I wrote this but procrastinated on editing and ... out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into ... clean slate. I made my bed for the first time in months (sorry, roommates

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  the first time in two years, as part of the pit orchestra for the ... semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful ... the time, and I had the fortune of owning some of my own kitchen

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  which again by the way IS REALLY FREAKING HOT, and the first time ... !!!! So this video was one of my first times collecting glass, and not ... part of the creation (you also pour a little water on the neckline for

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of ... of my time which would feel like neither: unexciting and normal, not ... /reading/wasting time, maybe hanging out, eating, working more, going to sleep, and then

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  culture never really became a significant part of my identity. So am I ... care too much about where I was from. It just wasn’t a big part of my ... also a tricky one. My first reaction to reading this part of the prompt

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... I am graduating (at the time of this being posted, graduated), I ... actually completed during my time here. So, here goes number 1… Learn all

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... majority of the time exploring different psychological experiments and tests ... , but there's a part of me that wishes I threw my app into more places

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  and now I was cooking it but ultimately the yeast did not do their job

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  a pretty good job at. ...Better than Petey, who straight up looks

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a job, exercise, drink 8 cups of water, consult your doctor, and resurrect

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016