Blog / Admissions my MIT admissions essays a retrospective hour in, we realized the cup’s diameter was disproportionately large for by Victor D. '27 October 14, 2025
Blog / Art, Literature, Music Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate the school year in between my work hours this summer and decided to by Richard O. '28 July 30, 2025
Blog / Art, Literature, Music what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety , the first time in three weeks that I’d gone 48 hours without performing by Kai V. '25 February 27, 2025
Blog / Community Projects [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog hours straight while giving directions to hundreds of lost high schoolers by Fiona L. '27 February 13, 2025
Blog / Classes 2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit the Final Presentation. The team put in so many hours during this final by Emiko P. '25 January 16, 2025
Blog / About Decisions “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions anxiety or difficulty talking to adults, but I sobbed in my car for an hour by Aiden H. '28 November 13, 2024
Blog / Art, Literature, Music “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw was a long three hours, but it was always so worth it. As a class, we by Kanokwan T. '26 June 4, 2023
Blog / Class Projects What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons from my hour-long interview. Cutting it to five minutes seemed impossible by Kidist A. '22 January 5, 2023
Blog / Class Projects I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project because this documentary is your baby you've been editing for three hours by Cami M. '23 November 23, 2022
Blog / How to Human Womanhood hour after everything had happened, and everything in me rebelled as I by Shorna A. '25 October 28, 2022
Blog / Summer and they were roommates living with "randos" at the scene. three It took us two hours to commute home, because the by CJ Q. '23 July 6, 2022
Blog / How to Human things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area people work long hours and still cannot afford basic shelter. and i mean by Vincent H. '23 June 23, 2022
Blog / How to Food [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3 simmering for an hour, add the stew meat Continue stewing for 2hr Borscht by CJ Q. '23 June 7, 2022
Blog / Challenges i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness spire, which i have now clocked 300 hours in), and lie down and take naps by CJ Q. '23 May 12, 2022
Blog / Challenges Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience after I stare at the lab for eight hours at a time without making any by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26 February 14, 2022
Blog / Academics & Research A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals way to New Hampshire! We ended up driving for an hour to a Cracker by Cami M. '23 December 15, 2021
Blog / Miscellaneous girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right? My father yells "What you gonna do with your life?" Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one But girls they wanna have fun With less than 48 hours to my next 6.006 midterm, I sit here contemplating the by Cami M. '23 April 24, 2021
Blog / Advice tidbits pieces of advice this when my 8.01L pset was due in a couple hours and it was 11:30PM at by Cami M. '23 March 24, 2021
Blog / Life after MIT MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here make a meme generator for like an hour, and then bailed to play pool at by Nisha D. '21 January 27, 2021
Blog / Classes The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up I cried into the late hours of the night. I was stressed by my classes by Cami M. '23 November 4, 2020