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• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  else Whose spirit seems dead There was a time, last year, when I really wanted to do an internship over the summer. I don’t know what, exactly, made me feel like I wanted to do one. I knew that I didn’t want to spend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  Four years ago, I started to apply to colleges. Four years later, I'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... by the picket fence and little "Bryan's" running around. Right now, I

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring Break! A little guessing game.

  

  . I leave for (blank) on Saturday. Anyone want to guess where I'm going? Hint #1: It's not the Pappalardo Lab. (although if I were staying at MIT for Spring Break, I'd definitely be down there working on 2.007) Hint #2

  • by Bryan
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Public Art Projects An art piece that captures the essence of the title of my blog.

  

  This was today's surprise as I walked down the Infinite. I think the ... do you think? I really *want* that sign. I think this project was for one of the art classes, but I'm not sure.

  • by Bryan
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time ... colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... wistfulness. It occupies my thoughts as a mere figment of my past; when I think

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  every blog I've ever blogged has come directly out of frenzy it ... itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I ... the time I randomly get the urge to make something it feels like I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  . Janice: I know it's been months since we've last talked, but now that you've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how you're doing. CJ: It's been great! I like the company so far. Janice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  Cambridge area. however, even if there wasn't a pandemic, I wouldn't be able to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current circumstances, I've had to pick and choose who to spend my [rare] free time with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff" crammed into four suitcases. I quickly discovered that MIT and Baker House was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In honor of that anniversary, I'd like to hear your stories. I know you all ... part of the Class of 2011? Did you dance? (I did!) One year ago, I hadn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  In the many days prior to Kresge Kickoff, I kept saying it, kept ... looking forward to this year? I’m gonna rush, because I’m everything I think I’m not. Do you know anything about Greek Life? Not much, but I will

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the ... every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my digital maker. Well, that’s not true. The most frustrating part is that I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  playlist; tw: suicide mention briefly Today, I interviewed for a ... swelled as I talked about MIT, and MIT Admissions, and Petey, and all of the admissions officers and bloggers. All the work that I've done and all the work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can't quite describe. i feel like i've been in LA forever, but i also feel like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed below for a while but couldn’t because I didn’t have time or didn’t want

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  some excellent puzzles. it's written by teammate, and i know lots of ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night-- It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... to do) was mechanical engineering. I liked to build things and create things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker ... neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and ... nights lying awake, with no one to hug before going to bed— I don't want

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021