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  Time and change

  

  Term's over. Almost. I've always felt that term wasn't truly over until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out ... they were the same person with different aspects played up or down. They

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  ) can play. We would hope this would be more of a dialogue than a lecture ... : 1. In order, what were the five most popular home states for admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  ruined it for me by pointing out that fireworks are a celebratory ... of my couch! Brazil for two months people. Eu vou trabalhar no ... for reflection and admissions advice since most people reading this are

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point ... events, I was deprived of my laptop for over 3 weeks. How ridiculous were ... ! Better leave it off for a couple of weeks to let it dry out. 3) The company

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for the first half, both because I was physically unwell for a huge chunk

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the ... for several hours--there was a power outage, it was cold out, no one ... all the way back to our room, and went to sleep, preparing for another

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  , offering performances and games for prospective students. Desiree Amadeo, a ... "paper airplanes" made from Athena header pages [another use for header ... student, a freshman, a problem that other labs had been trying to solve for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  significant enough to merit a platform of its own. For those students, our ... good fit for a portfolio.[/annotation] If you’re still not sure, just ask ... (for this cycle: November 1, 2021). If you’re applying through Regular

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  tolerance was shattered. I was fine for the first 3 seconds, so I took a few ... fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and ... other. Unfortunately for us, our bodies don’t completely digest all the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  May. the rules for adding to this playlist were very limited—i mainly ... first heard it being played during REX and continues to be an essential ... school year. later, though, i choreographed to it for my dance show, so i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  materials are made and how they work and I love blending plastics for hours ... got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent ... decision admissions results came out for MIT!! I was deferred back in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40 ... half month periods that defined my childhood. For the first time in three

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  yesterday's entry for, well, more pictures. I, I can remember standing by ... Engineering Museum, which is a strange destination for like 7 MIT students who ... seemed kind of strangely appropriate. After the game, I went to go get a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  .Y. Before anyone could go running for the police, the new guide explained that ... fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... admissions staff. She and her mother realized that the background music for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  composing music and playing jazz piano for years. Another, who almost finished ... other things do you do for fun? Besides math? I play guitar and piano ... is, unless you aren't looking for flexibility), then you're in luck. If

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future hypothetical dorm room. First, the website for the Massachusetts Bay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  few things that make the fall season such a significant time of year for ... , and orange of the leaves, for me, always adds a new type of warmth to ... different dishes for dinner, and I always had fun competing with my parents

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  going on around MIT. For example, today the MIT Museum had an MIT ... speakers that played a recording when you stood on a circle in front of them ... Museum open again after being closed for so long brought so much joy to my

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

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  allergies blaring agonizing lights amazing grace playing dabbling damaged ... Digging, Dagging Go!   Our final project for Experimental Writing was ... on our class website, here. For my news article, I wrote about mental

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  , which is, for some reason, TOONS GO CAMPING. (We also, by the way, have hilarious flyers.) It's been a little hectic preparing for this concert ... . Preparing for Toons, however, means that I'm feeling particularly musical

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013