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  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011 ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio ... ever exchanged with Spencer, the day after we admitted him in March of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... just to go ahead and be honest with them (well, you should be honest in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology!!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... throughout their time at MIT. I live in the dorm Burton-Conner, which I have ... traditions, something that I fell in love with as soon as I arrived on campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase, “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like this: I imagine everybody here has felt like this some time in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... and State College have both become home, though in very different ways ... made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  and ridiculousness emerge in costume form. Reason 3 of 1 bajillion: An ... creativity and ridiculousness emerge in pumpkin form. Reason 5 of 1 bajillion ... ...mushiness. Mushiness comes in sentiment form. People like that-friend-you-haven't-spoken

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get ... your life--how well you fit in at school, at work or at home affects more ... you, it's much easier to be happy. In terms of colleges, I had no idea

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  Approximately two weeks ago in Building 14 (the one between Building ... in [annotation note="School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ... wall in Building 14 highlighted several economists such as Joshua Angrist

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  everyone else"]pods[/annotation] were a thing. My podmates and I cried in each others' arms, screamed profanities in the courtyard, maxed out the ... me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in AP classes and participated in extracurriculars but still didn't know ... about in the college process, but leave in the theoretical domain. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I wrote A Major Crisis, a blogpost in which I discussed my major prospects and my budding interest in pursuing computer science despite not having

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  were in general much more hardk0re. East Campus in its original manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  up, I was always the odd one out. Growing up in South Dakota, I was usually the only Asian student in the classroom, and that was just one in a ... people in my class. In other words, I was a perfectly pitiable caricature

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  with no end in sight. That nagging, hopeful feeling that you’re so close ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... things blurred at lightning-speed in the Institute, and you moved with the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  -themed escape room in the Next House basement. In my opinion, it’s one of the coolest showcases of student culture here. Students pitch in their talents ... show for the MIT community. In 2021, even former MIT president Rafael

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  Comic book history Cultural legitimacy In practice Experience logistics In the flesh Holding candles Creative goods Feedback loops ... permanence For transience The gift of puzzles Sandbagging Free as in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  current and crufty MIT bloggers. A super familiar name popped up in the chain: Bryan Bryson. My advisor in biological engineering and one of the ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... thoughts in these cute little hover sections because I want my mom to have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015