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• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  recommendation from people who can write well on your behalf, or to at least have ... knowledgeable letter on your behalf. A few sentences at the top of a letter
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  other superhero just by looking at them. I thought he was stupid.  During ... discovers that he has multiple forms of cancer and at best one month to live ... grow so much during these months at home. I’d have a job, I’d make lots

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  of these walks, I reflected a lot on my time at MIT and my relationship ... disability affect your time at MIT?” “It didn’t. Well, I mean. I couldn’t let ... . At MIT, with these flowers comes the optimism of students. They signify

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling arises when looking at something human-like. This is why humanoid robots ... hasn’t been explored much with scientific rigor and simply remains at

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you ... gawking at the height of the buildings. It feels strange to be in the center ... I’m most certainly trying to find my place and I’m not at all sure how

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  get my haircut at an actual salon, since she thinks that if I bleach and ... looked at me slightly expectantly, and I finally answered - “Six years ... freshman IAP, and I’m bad at remembering to condition it. After I left home I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger ... [/annotation] and stopping at least five McDonald's; a tragedy that would cost us 125 ... 's alright now, fortunately."]we lost Jonathan at mile 32 to some hip flexor

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  Arts at MIT) in Fall 2020, but I didn't have any more blocks to carve ... would make me feel bad if I messed up. At my level of block cutting

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  most is fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), which is ... . fun. – Be Calm 8. fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be) 9. fun. – Take Your Time (Coming Home) From fun. At the time I called

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  efforts to position your child for success in the admission process, at MIT at least, may actually do more harm than good. In the intervening

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... particularly hedonistic weekend in the desert of California at Coachella a couple ... stared at the blinding lights from the stage in front of me, I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  the city is from nature. In Tucson, no matter where you live, you are at ... they looking at? We got closer. The glass cases held reptiles: snakes ... , their scaly bodies indistinguishable, at a distance, from long fallen

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  ’ve gone on since starting at MIT. I am nervous, but I am also very, very, excited. True to form, I’ve arrived at South Station perhaps a little ... Limited will take me to Chicago, arriving at 10:12 AM CST on January 4th

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  following semester, thanks to the brilliant LSC chair at the time, who resolved to do at least one film screening before graduation. I was lucky ... projector at a constant 24 frames per second. That gives you one reel of film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  completed two years at MIT, and I plan to graduate after I finish four years ... my podmates; other times I feel frustrated at how few new things I ... . We marveled at the cheap, fresh produce we had gotten, and at how much

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  I suck at finishing text novels, but it turns out that I just haven ... gripping Last Night at the Telegraph Club, I devoured the story of the ... myself take whatever train of thought arrived at my mind’s platform.  I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  been my friend for the past thirteen years, came and spent the weekend at ... that felt so blatantly grown, adultish. Hosting an old friend at my one ... the blogs. He was, in fact, my best friend at MIT. But due to some

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  be the exact colors of my room in East Campus. At 11 pm we get another ... very, very carefully. I can't stay in my room, but at least, just the ... brain telling me I'm not good at anything. Several sad things happen at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  's something that my family members would poke fun at and point out and I think ... middle school. I hated running. I was not good at it. I am asthmatic and ... the weaker side, how at the age of 7 I couldn't do a proper pushup or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's. More on that later."]last year[/annotation]at MIT? Packing up and leaving ... what's best for me. I know I'm not the best at everything. That ... respect to undergraduate life at MIT only; I'm not saying I've got this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021