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• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  , they're mailing regular decisions out tomorrow! I can feel you shivering ... whatnot. Let me tell you the story of when I got my admissions decision from MIT. It was Monday... March 17, I believe. I forgot it was coming

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  I have been incredibly busy so far this month. I'm taking hours away from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time ... of homework, with a fourth packet due this coming Monday. I've done

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week was pretty intense: 6.021J - Quantitative Physiology I - Cells and ... -Fluids Engineering I - 1 Problem Set - 1 Exam involving problems dealing with

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is ... she got back, she showed off the things she bought. "Look, I finally found a table cloth! And salt and pepper shakers!" Meanwhile, I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense yet fun week, and I'll probably blog about that this weekend. But on a ... , I embarked on the adventure of producing a documentary about the

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  are high on my favorite burger list (and trust me, I am almost a local ... Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush burgers with my first time in the EC courtyard, when I dyed my hair in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  at a distance staying in contact with friends from home

  

  balloon spelling "21." Her birthday was about a month ago and I completely forgot! :( I sent a happy belated birthday message. It made me really think about just how disconnected I am from people at home—some of the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to be the year when things 'get real', at least as a Mech-e, and I found

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  Finals season is well and officially upon us, but I couldn’t help but feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  Featuring my sister's drawings cuz she's awesome.   I went to ... high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... : i notice myself feeling cold much more easily now. as a kid and teenager i could walk in shorts in 40 degree (fahrenheit) weather without any

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome Center, which opened last year. I use these two blackboards that have ... . Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... . Narrow scaffolds under which I’m barely squeezing past crowds. Seeing so ... and I hold onto the same pole as the C express train zooms halfway

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... vital part in my communication toolbox. I also draw and [annotation note="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  applying to MIT, I knew I really, really had to write some damn good essays because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to acceptance level material. I wanted to give a short rundown of what my essay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about ... course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... own Canadian format, called Reach for the Top, so I didn't (and still

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed ... , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays relentlessly and questioned everything about myself, whether the things I liked

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then ... gardens. I love our long, long, daylong and nighttime walks. I love feeling thoroughly exhausted. When I close my eyes at night I see castles, green

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home ... holiday is cluttered with things I said I'd do during the semester and didn't have time to do. But with things lining up now, I can finally take the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  When I woke up this morning, I checked my Facebook (as any good ... ; ♫Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is the street I cross everyday. The cars slush and turn all the ... .♪ ♫Close up of the red thing in front of a building that's orange, Oh how I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014