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  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  honest, I won't be offended by anti-Jersey jokes at all. I understand and ... so much that I've become personal friends with the teen librarian at my ... order. I'm spending this summer working as a lifeguard at Runaway Rapids

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  and speak with British accents, are at war with the werewolves (aka ... bullets are supposed to be instantly fatal and they fire them at each other ... antibodies, but actually it's kind of bad because at the same time Kate's evil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for ... example, my friend Jake got a terrific room his freshman year at the East ... rooms each year), but certainly not unheard of. My housing at Baker House

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  sophomore year is the worst, but it's also kinda the year class-wise, at least ... I will want to look back on at the end of the semester to see if this ... 've heard is harder but very very doable. Most people at MIT take this class

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  -out and needing to be at the airport. I could push my 4 bags around the ... , or suck it up and spend like 7 hours at the airport. I opted for the ... can actually be too early to check your bags (boo) Sit at the entrance

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  things are clicking into place and falling completely apart all at once. i ... friendships. but being a full-time lab rat as a coping mechanism comes at the ... wanted to attend and meetings that i'm supposed to be at... i think i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  in between   That was definitely my worst semester in-person at ... experiences scratched at me quietly clawed away at the hope I've so deeply held ... , but it is a lot to put into words at the moment—so I have chosen to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... distances are HARD. 800 meters is sprinting 2 laps, the first lap at 80%, the second starting at 95% and ending at 110%. While I was quite mediocre - I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full ... ; When the decision day rolled around, I woke up at noon, 14 minutes before

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  writing poems then, but really quite casually. At MIT sometimes it can feel ... lot of endeavors here at MIT you need this form of precision and rigor ... symbols that became a distant beauty that holds my will like the gold at the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  had been measured at 364.4 Smoots ± 1 ear, and bright yellow, purple ... .   Um, duh. So at 10 pm, I scooter on over to the bridge. There ... at the faded letters reading ‘Halfway to Hell,’ I ask him, “So, which

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  I am and does not detect me as a moving entity despite walking at a ... rainbow ripples that you might see if you looked at your computer screen ... land on the vastness of the Charles all at once. It's hard to see in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship ... winter break at MIT, I started folding modular origami – origami composed ... visually striking. I made this one out of sticky notes at work! Excavated

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  started at MIT. I put “smart” in quotation marks because Bevi machines stop ... ."]which happens at MIT more than I’m proud to admit[/annotation]), and I also put ... -aggressively tell me to get better at dispensing water, but to our surprise, the QR

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  helped fixed my sleep schedule, at least for now, before classes ramp up ... process takes maybe twenty minutes at most, but it’s so essential in helping me maintain my creative spirit at MIT. Figuring out what to wear is a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  .) I’ve never been very good at school. This feels strange to admit ... someone. I can go to lectures and do my homework and pass my classes, but at ... this happen, why should I sit at a desk and work for somebody else? But I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  i haven't written about what's been happening in my life at all in ... 've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let ... think at that time of semester i spent a lot of time playing kingdom of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  Spinning Arts exec meeting at 5pm, [annotation note="time for people to get ... people get to spin stuff on fire outdoors."]spinjam[/annotation] setup at 6 ... of my poem in my room, so I had to walk back to EC. At EC, I realized I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  At MIT, students are able to declare their major starting sometime ... requirement, which is made up of eight subjects of at least nine units each ... my feelings made more sense: Possible answer: At some point, I found

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  , because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris ... , talking to editors at publishing houses who were interested in my book. The

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022