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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  Last year when deciding which colleges I wanted to apply to, I had ... while MIT fit the criteria of being a) on a coast and [annotation note ... body of water[/annotation], the only things I knew about Boston before

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... ’m doing a [annotation note='mit international science and technology

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle school—specifically most of TMG's projects—so being able to work inside it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  of summer '09, when I so intelligently decided to play Ultimate Frisbee ... home, bound for MIT. Yes, I am known for my impeccable sense of timing ... flip side of the victim-EMT dealio. Which means that I get to deck myself

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

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... entry, might I add, of like eight billion. Snively is totally making me ... never wanted to ask, like my favorite kind of chocolate bite-sized candy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly to the other side of the world in pursuit of education. This was the ... my absence was hard, but the true impact of leaving hit while I was

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied ... different suite) every year so far. Not only have I painted all of these rooms, but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  tied to mutual emotional vulnerability. In her reflections of applying ... in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a ... !!) place because of him, along with all of the other wonderful people I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i ... semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  I am currently a ball of feelings. Some people might call me an ... share with you a sliver of some of the amazing people I’ve met and the ... honor of listening to a professor who was involved in the discovery of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  ! Students can apply to up to three externships in the middle of Fall semester ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  high school I was one of those kids who, if I applied myself, succeeded ... . Because I truly, truly do. No, I can’t tell you my favorite flavor of ice ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  combination of course 9 Brain and Cognitive Sciences or 15 Management or 14 ... mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come ... , upperclassmen I knew from high school, and of course the academic excellence and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  days of the firefly music festival. it was absolutely amazing; Tame ... friends in the last week of the semester. there was an ungodly amount of ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

   interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that ... ’t really give out a lot of advice on these blogs. A year ago, on a post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  offered in the fall. So constructing an Independent Study seemed like our ... Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting ... get it approved because you haven't really heard of anyone else doing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on ... García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015