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  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  to MIT. my photo album conveniently lists them in chronological order, one after the other, in perfect linear narrative since i first stepped ... way. i’ve found that memories don’t often fall in orderly queues aligned

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  warm (and dry) in a Boston winter has been an adventure. It’s been a lot of advice from experienced friends, googling and learning from mistakes ... that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... Bridge Reception to be held on April 12, 2013 from 6:30pm-8:00pm in W20-301. Current ... meeting you! In fact, they are so excited to meet you that we would like to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  . They had appeared in our yard back home lonely and hungry, and in just a ... voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah wah wah wah..." and called back in alarm. We don't know where they came

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  I don't make schedules or use planners. In fact, I don't even use Google Calendar. It is slightly amusing to see fellow classmates toting ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  .”- Anonymous Reviewer aka Jeremy in my last post. Some (including my own mom) may ... education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to ... also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  scoped a few of us on LinkedIn and sent us a Discord invite, and then one ... server, we shared pictures of all the swag we got sent months before, in ... logo. This was before we knew that the internship would be in-person. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  during college i developed a method for watching shows very efficiently ... . this process was very helpful in the sense that it allowed me to finish ... patience to watch the office in its entirety but was able to get through the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head ... . That’s why CPW (and the Admissions blogs, if you can’t visit in person ... students, IHTFP has meant both during different times in the year. Before you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the ... was a tangent !!!! sorry !! ok, so, in a vacuum and [annotation note="in ... these calculations in my head) for the entire 25 minutes, i’ll have about

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  googled your therapist's name and it came up in a blogpost from 2017 where ... goes hand in hand with being a hopeless romantic. always mourning a ... up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... , a version of multivariable calculus that starts in the fall and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... pay for in full, where you are the master of the domain, kitchen and ... summer. Over here, my Google search for “entertainment near me” only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  also block off certain hours in your schedule during preregistration to ... interval training for the first time in maybe a year or so. Now might be a ... long time. At least, that's how it was for me in the act of running. Once

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in some fun before chaos resumes again. In case you missed it, thousands of ... science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over ... ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  , Hassan (who is from the Ivory Coast) was always highly active in the Muslim ... student entrepreneurship clubs and organizations. In addition to taking on ... students to participate in MIT’s Sandbox initiative. Working with Sandbox

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  events like playing underground capture the flag in the main campus ... push the carnage of our duck back across campus in the dark."]water fight ... aquarium trip or something. In this year’s case, the prize was Red Sox

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... Naviance/Docufide, the MIT cover sheet would need to be scanned in and then ... teacher letters and school forms (such as transcripts) in three ways, listed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012