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• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  'd recommend bookmarking that page, and not this entry. But this should get the ... . Summer program mentors and job supervisors can also be great choices to write college recommendations. Extra recommendations can be especially

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  much else to say about those dark, dark weeks. When you think about it ... relaxing at home. There really are no bounds to what you decide to do (although I guess technically you are bounded by the law and also physics and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  else’s head. You get to experience what they experience–the fear during a ... experiences, though. It means you get to be that person for a little bit. You ... . You get to be that person with a genius idea for every predicament. You

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  myself, nor do i really get the whole christmas spirit thing. but it just ... watch other friends sing nice songs. you're not really interacting with each other—there's no expectation to—but you're friends, and so you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do ... getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  get windy, but still no precipitation. 10:55am: Dean Marilee Jones has ... you design a pinball machine for a nursing home?" Kevin '11: "No! I ... : Edmund says, "You really are good at the 45 minute conversations, Matt." I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a ... won't tell you, because we can't. We make decisions collaboratively, in ... . How can I contact the office if I must? You may comment on this entry

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  note="If you get the reference, nice"]Bosco,[/annotation] and that is what has stuck. We've been having a pleasant time with Bosco, as you can ... . Smooth and calm. It was roughly 5 hours to get from NYC to Boston, much of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  is some way to make this schedule work where I can take classes I enjoy ... abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... essentially went in a giant loop back to Course 20 :^) If you know me

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  minutes. Eat and be merry. As far as the smashed sweet potatoes, you can either boil sweet potatoes, then peel them... Or you can cheat and buy ... A couple of you asked for the recipe for my plantain crusted salmon

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  generally safe. There was the trigger, of course, where you press your finger ... . There was the muzzle, the part where the pellet shoots from. It was good ... finger off-trigger until the moment you actually have to shoot. These were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  wrote one of my MIT essays - the "Tell us about something you've created ... , I think wishfully of my high school days where midnight was considered ... conflict with one another, I'm thoroughly at a loss as to where to go and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You ... I'm most assuredly deprotonated. Anyway, when you last left your hero ... visitors were actually affiliated with Harvard. So, you know what this means

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  carefully. You must be brave before you can be good.[/visually_hidden] There ... who solves it gets an A." "I heard some of you are watching my ... directions, with their reasoning being: Ubuntu, because "after all, you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  daunting problem sets and computers that can't love you back. Cats also have ... guarantee you that someone's hiding one in their dorm room. Before you know it, you have a gerbil colony." Fed up with the pet wave, she struck a deal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  couches of Stud5, you can find me across the river in my sorority house ... because my friend aiden is a big tsm fan. please carry me in valorant if you ... fear, you music elitists out there, i listen to a little bit of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  get it out of the way during IAP so i can focus on more technical ... 's therapeutic and fun and satisfying since you get to EAT the food you make!! i ... what you’re doing with your time   i actually had no idea what i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  you just as much as any lecture will, and I really use this time to get ... testing, techniques, and reactions can make you feel like you’re in some ... really awesome. So, you apply here, you read the brochures from the mail

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  : “It’s like a concert tour but with sketchbooks). Essentially, you pay $25 to get a blank Moleskine cahier sketchbook, which you're supposed to ... reading and watching movies and all the summer bummin’ I can categorize as

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  suuuuper chill—you basically get to eat Chinese snacks and learn about ... class is taught by the legend Gilbert Strang, whom you may know for his 18 ... well-paced, so I didn’t struggle too much. I can’t wait to leave the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020