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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  a human doing by Caroline M. '18 In which I am somehow still an MIT ... [annotation note="*gestures broadly at the world*"]too tired[/annotation] to do ... Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and so on than they do to the blogs

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  would be a lot more dull.” Do you have any nerdy interests? MIT is known ... explains how, as a dog lover at heart, she has gotten into the hobby of doing ... . What do you have to say to people who are reading the blogs and applying

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  colleges. This network is brand new this academic year. “Where do you want ... academic advisor (Dr. Ann Graybiel, a really cool person doing really cool ... me hands-on experience and helped me decide if I wanted to do something

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  pray that you do. A few key facts about me that may or may not provide ... [annotation note="cj: stressed out, busy, lots of things to do, idk ... do? Remember that dietary guidelines change drastically every few years

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  , cramming problem sets, meeting people, and doing activities, and then in the evening you don’t have enough energy to do anything anymore. But this is ... ASE, I eat lunch, I go to another orientation event or go do a REX event

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  my sign and see what parts I do or do not relate to. Plus, I ... , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... charge in a group setting as much as I do. As a fire sign, they are known

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  's certain parts of campus or food or whatever! Otherwise I'll just do my best ... make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do ... of the bloggers *really* do), but you might know my face/backpack color

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  (see, e.g., Krystal, Rachel, Ceri, Ana). I've been thinking about doing ... dark brain fairies at bay, and now I make it a priority. I do make sure ... extracurricular or award I've never heard of, etc). Doing this job well requires

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  -time employer to do the same. But it also horrified me, because suddenly I was ... do grown up things in the grown up world. What did I learn at MIT? (We ... sentimental of a person and do that crap everytime I go home, and because I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  might imagine, quite a few of them! Unfortunately we do operate under some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  notoriously huge workload because I was pretty sure that I'd love doing the work, no matter how much there was (I really enjoyed, for example, doing ... still do well at MIT, that's great... but if not, be as brutally honest as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  It wasn't like I meant to do it. I was late for recitation, and I ... being real, or your high school econ teacher going to the same gym you do ... twisted, unconventional, and often incorrect. It's what we came here to do

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  do we mean by this? Everyone here was admitted based on the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  i genuinely wanted to do, and a tight knit community i feel that i ... freshman year was to do a good job to whatever i commit to. through my own ... can generally be relied on to do certain things is quite valuable as

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  they now, what do they do? And how far back could I go? Tracing the past ... students. We have a position called historian whose job it is to do research ... that we leave records of what we currently do.']ESP historian

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , but in doing so, trap them in place and hollow them out. 6 - printed ... of the camera module, partly because the thermal printer can only do ... work I was doing. This might have just been how things work at this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  Software had a lot of work to do. “Hey Erin, does Software need more people?” I asked.  Erin, the head of Software, nodded. “Do you want to join ... [/caption] My job the last milestone was to do the electronics. That means wiring

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  group photo’s supposed to happen right now, do we wanna head back?” “They ... was going to do with it, but I sent it over anyway. Just yesterday, he

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  could do about it. Now, there are a lot of things that you can influence ... nothing to do with you. I’m making this point because getting rejected from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  knows what to do to heal. It doesn't know, and I don't know, and the melancholy is bleeding out into everything I do. Staining it. Even this letter

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015