[live blogging] astronomy field camp
14/01/2025 20:00 this IAP, i am in Tenerife for 12.411 (astronomy field camp), which is an observational astronomy lab intensive class that satisfies the thesis requirement for astronomy minors and...
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[Liveblog] MARC 2025
Day 1, 6 PM (Andi) Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems Annual Research Conference) – MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory’s (MTL) annual conference, featuring two days of MIT...
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shifting seasons
mementos high school has been on my mind, lately. it’s been almost five years, and only now do i feel comfortable dusting off the little box where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within....
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[Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes
Jess: This is a guest post by my friend Grace Z. ’25! I met her through a summer program last year and we’ve since bonded over concerts, good food, and all MIT assorted things. I invited her to write a...
View Articlewhat I’m doing this IAP
MIT has an Independent Activities Period, which we call IAP, during the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots...
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MARC 2025 (not a live blog)
MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic career where you should absolutely go whether you consider your research good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski...
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2.009: the product engineering process
For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious homecoming weekends and rivalry football games broadcasted on ESPN. At MIT, though, nothing beats the energy and celebration of the...
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Final projects from the fall
I had four final projects this past semester. As busy as I was for the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn’t have exams. I love making things, and I hate exams. 6.8371 –...
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[Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT
A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep Had my parked car crashed into Moved from Hawaii (and had movers...
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Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫
This winter, before arriving at my GTL20 Global Teaching Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in various locations around the world in Kazakhstan, I decided to visit...
View ArticleGuess who can legally drive alone in Maine now?
Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia National Park in Maine. We planned meticulously for the trip – booking the Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to...
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Jill Biden waved at me
This IAP17 Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique, accelerated classes, just do research, or participate in a MISTI program,...
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what i ate in a month*
MIT is not exactly known for our dining. Well, even if it was, I’m sure that it’s known (derogatory) rather than known (complimentary); unfortunately for now, I’m not here to say any saving graces. 01...
View Articlethe blogs turn twenty 👴🏻
It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first say that: the blogs actually turned twenty on August 6th,...
View ArticleI’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog
In 2004, I applied to MIT. It was a paper form, the first part, and I filled it out by hand and mailed it with a stamp. I remember this because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times...
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Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years
After my rejection from MIT in my prior post, I attended Cornell for my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we revisit rejection with a renewed lens. Professional writers...
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what i talk about when i talk about running
“At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success and excellence. Success was ‘having:’ money, awards, status. Excellence was ‘being:’ living your values, having them guide your...
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I may have been accepted to MIT, but
Hello – my name is Michael. You may know me as Snively. Or you may not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008, nearly 20 years ago, when blogs were something *everybody*...
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It’s been a long road…
Why yes, I am rewatching Star Trek: Enterprise! My hair has been updated in the last seventeen and a half years. Hello, blog readers! This is Jessie (they/them or she/her), class of 2007 and one of the...
View Article[Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth
For the integrity of alumposting, I’m pasting Daniel’s bio from 2009 (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the Director of Student Financial Aid and Student Employment...
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