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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... 't do that! The interview isn't anything like a test. But each EC can be

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last ... , sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The ... by three hours of MedLinks training, but I got pushed off the front of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  The college recruiting process can be a confusing world to maneuver for athletes and their families. The soccer recruiting process, while ... ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  inspired by Alan's browser archaeology post, I started looking at the ... then, looking at the over 1500 tabs open, that I realized that I had ... pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  and looking at the pretty leaves, love MIT's fall-themed events, love baking cozy desserts, love comfy sweaters, and generally love all of the ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  the rest of my life now? But on the other hand, I know that this ... growth. Regardless of that, though, the irrational part of my brain has ... will be okay when I'm not...in the okay. But then I think back to where

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  471462f4073[/embed] I've been contemplating the future as of late. With ... feelings on what I want the future to look like. Had you asked me in my sophomore year of high school of what the future had in store, I would've told

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment that was the United States. As a chronically online Gen Z-er, I’d already

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past ... pillows had been recently added to the shelves, including some patterned ... normal people stores [...] without the anime girl on it" and are "not just

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... more or less told the solution, wondering how on earth anyone could ever ... . The thing is, I don't know anyone who scored higher than the average

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  year and graduation and "the end" all felt so far out of reach. I wasn ... couldn't be looking so far ahead. All I had in front of me was the present ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  ’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I ... out the [annotation note="curse my room for having such a good view ... definitely feeling the exhaustion creep into my bones in a way that sleep doesn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my ... exactly where I've put things even if it's messy and out in the open and not ... face paint. It was always untidy to me, the way it looked just icked me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  since i got home 19 days ago, i've been... playing the new animal ... "]stifling[/annotation] long island household. the game's release is almost prophetically convenient with respect to the current situation we all find ourselves in. if

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this question a lot over the last few weeks. And rightfully so, it's really been a ... not get easier through the years. Here I am, a junior (crazily enough

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of the semester where things get hard, and some additional unfortunate ... ’m living in an all-female house (the Delta Phi Epsilon house!!!) across the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite ... awake to hang out with. The only time when everyone seems to be asleep is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  with their summers, I solicited updates from the French House mailing ... , almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just ... -inch refracting telescope was the second largest telescope in the world ... astrometry, UVA now uses it primarily for teaching and public outreach. On the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  -ray room while wearing a paint-stained grey sweater and sweatpants. The ... Sam to go with me. The exchange went something like this: Me: What are ... laundry. We carried our dirty clothing to the laundry room dressed like this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012