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• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  predicament of one of my favorite advertisement slogans: WAY too much stuff ... , sorry! Adios!" and be on my merry way.[/annotation] To me, dropping the ... out there, then I'm making good use of my time at MIT and it would prove

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  cooking. I was once on a meal plan for about two weeks at the start of my ... bearing good tidings in the form of a little glass bottle. My world turned ... . I needed to shout this on the mountaintops, voice hoarse but full of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so ... doused in olive oil and parmesean cheese. On the way home, Adam and I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... working on; I tried to say that stress was taking the best of me, but even ... the greatest kids showing up at the freshman orientation of his new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on ... on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... probably relieves a good fraction of the stress accumulated from the more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  on the ice just because I don't have the luxury of training all that I ... enough on its own. More of often than not, both my mind and body are equally drained, on the verge of burnout. It's lonely to do this all on my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  way! Look at the frozen river! and ducks! and geese! close up of ... For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the spring semester. But for the second half, we arrived on campus and did some

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  or a new UROP, and pre-semester cleaning of my new home, the DPhi ... this class are graduate students, some of them working on their Ph.D, and ... I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  weekend, i knew i'd spend a lot of time on the hunt, and i was really ... friends who do have these lives, because these are all based on lives of ... , for having taking the reins on my life and fighting my way to get here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my ... undergraduates of any class year. This application will go live on 07/01/2024 and ... Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  . Kind of like the foot pedals on a pipe organ. [caption id ... image1="100737" image2="100738" /] In honor of this new building, Music ... of the few instruments on this list that I actually ended up building

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of me (maybe that's a good thing?), but I come to you today with important news! Our faculty, an amazing group of folks, asked how they could help

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  . It was freeing, in a way, to be able to seek new dreams, create new hopes; MIT had been my dream for so long. I felt like a new version of ... possibilities. New cities, new paths unfolded, and MIT was out of the picture. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  . From all of us who work on these projects, on behalf of both MIT and our ... , although it's only been a couple of weeks. Lots to tell you about. Fall Travel About an hour after I launched the new site (talk about cutting it

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  fraternity cookouts on Beacon Street. Under the direction of our dubiously ... prefrosh in an "OMG, you're from New York too?!" powwow. Once back on campus ... -revolving set of natives sat with us on the couches, and we talked about

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to ... Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... might expect, I was inevitably asked about my assessment of said pie. I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  educational videos in the background is a good way to stop yourself from using ... 't from one particular category of my thoughts - they are very random and i'll be impressed if you can catch a single thread of coherence running

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  some fun with them on the roof! Adam S. '14 wanted a photo of him in ... she works - the roof of the Green Building!  The Green Building is the tallest building in Cambridge - 19 stories tall and on stilts at 277 feet

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  time to elaborate on. But this is a good start. I'm a jigsaw puzzle of ... bit of a culture shock that made me want to better understand my ... sit down and write my opinions on personal and political matters and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  pandemic, but because of the way MIT administration has handled this pandemic ... I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021