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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  feel like Things Fall Apart really reflects that. As much as you can see ... or finish, I hope you’ll find time to read this summer! It can be on ... If you are a college student, or even in high school, you may have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  -weekly meetings with our supervisor where we check in on our progress/get help on ... , we were still focusing on adjusting to and getting used to college life ... where taking the summer off and living at home was an option (we realize

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again. We ask that you converse civilly and ... you, as that is the spirit of these blogs and our whole process

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  , under tech! MIT is a place where I can play a heated bout of Super Smash ... around visual aids; consequently, I hope you find this mostly text ... students from across the social spectrum. I can’t imagine anywhere else that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  in renewable energy. Wants to: Get a good-paying job so he can afford ... . Portland high school senior Trevor Zinser has long excelled where muscle ... trusses, glue-lam beams, 10/12 pitch and compound angles -- places where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  university. All hope is lost for the latter if you can't do the former. Of ... they move on, they can update and add to what you had to say. Together ... Chairman's Award (take heed, people who think you have to win Robotics

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  little too late, but hopefully it can help you all with forming your ... -med advisors generally recommend getting taking the MCATs as soon as you're done ... amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  students teach classes on whatever topics they want to, and then you can show ... cappella concert, is an annual event where all the mit a cappella groups ... can’t help but feel like i’ve failed, both as a creator and a musician

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  ". But until you can talk to AI bots like a regular person, they won't see ... , "Ask for money and you get advice. Ask for advice and you get money ... could pitch their startups to the venture capitalists and get feedback on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  , check out their Tumblr page where you will find out: Who are the 2012 ... Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  can now see the summer as something whole and fully past. Back in May, I ... . Reread journal entries. Compile drawings. List the lessons you’ve learned. Evaluate on these three measures: i) how much fun you had ii) how much

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , reaction engineering, and if you get lucky maybe even some cell biology and ... -nighters in a row. 72 hours straight. Three days can be a long time. Before you ... tell you about today? ICE. And I don't mean solid water. From the subject

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  year's yearbook might not actually get done, I can confidently and quite ... fantastic equipment and facilities that you can use if you join. And yes ... with my face though...) P.S. In case you haven't already, you can order

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  coasters, swim the across the Charles river (YOU HAVE NO PROOF), and have a ... Much FAC," where we made personalized cakes for each of the ten halls of ... email from Sherin '15. We definitely had a FAC today. Don't you remember

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  , you don’t have to wait to graduate. As an undergraduate student, you can ... of is that no matter where you wind up, you and your classmates have an ... you for being engaged with MIT and our admissions process. This year

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  itself sort of became the subject of this blog. Pre-freshmen, here's where you come in: to ensure that this type of gnarly recursive situation ... 's some suggestions for what you should suggest: 1.Living with a roommate 2

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  University in South Korea, where it's possible to major in taekwondo like an ... they'd set up like 15 people holding 6 boards and you'd have to wonder ... was true, I guess, but it wasn't exactly play-fighting like you'd see at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  vegetable goop. If you’re doing this with a group you can use the bottommost ... as white goop on the surface of the green or red goop. You can spin it ... classes you might expect, such as Computational Language Theory and Extreme

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up ... for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was ... we hit the town, where I got to see a lot of my old pals from the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  time during which absolutely nothing is expected of you; ironically, you tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... to GIRs, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an MIT student who doesn

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011