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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get ... that this may be more challenging for some students due to their ... thought should be able to provide a letter, however they are not able to do
• Blog / Uncategorized

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and that one’s foldable enough to take on the go, I cried silently. I need

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to ... ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn ... to the humanities, but I’ve quickly learned that this just isn’t true

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  myself to different perspectives and value systems was incredibly ... who has been raised to mythical proportions. We also dipped into the ... of the Fae was used to grieve loved ones, ie a mother that died in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  Have you ever wanted to be a performer but can’t sing or dance? Why ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn ... the LSC intro before Jojo Rabbit gave me the urge to become a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... style, ranging from "Hesitation" to "Tactile" to "Spoonerisms". We ... assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the Amtrak train, and more recently a day trip to Providence, RI also via

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... 't that bad. That was one of my last reservations about committing to MIT ... of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this has nothing to do with the November Rule). I finally have time to actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  I wanted to share that with you all. trigger warnings: talks of suicidal thoughts, depression, etc. background I started going to concerts ... barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... wonderful group of people. And now you, like us, get to laugh, cry, and lose ... welcome to: Alice L. '24 of California, who definitely has not drunk cell

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc ... people ever refer to your dorm as home m: i personally do though some ... 'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce ... fighting the pandemic. The webinar is open to the public, and will be hosted ... interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hello! I'm writing this very, very smol post to tell you that the MIT ... series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define. It’s like a Sudoku or a crossword, but you have to figure out the rules

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... float up to the top. "Huh," I said. "That's weird." And proceeded to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for ... "]sleep,[/annotation] but lots of fun.   Allow me to explain from the beginning, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  -paced; I could tell myself when was good to cram vocabulary cards and ... doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020