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• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by ... contains the supplemental materials by now? The disc is labeled with my name ... chipotle." I've never had Chipotle, so I'll go with mudfud on this one. just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer ... and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited ... words or with common logic. Who is asking to read LaTeX and then going

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of ... programs with companies and labs all over the world, or teaching programs ... different countries. Right now, I’m staying in Bristol with Anika (READ HER

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  "]GTL[/annotation] started with the warmest welcomes. On the very first day of the program, I ... into the principal’s office to find a table filled with different Kazakh ... ="aligncenter" width="1400"] the feast we were welcomed with![/caption] The next day, on

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  want with.  So, here are some thoughts swirling in my brain that I want ... think it’s achievable because I have a lot more I still want to share with ... official college soccer game, my time with the team is not over yet. We have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... ) soda I drank with dinner[/annotation] that powered me through editing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  appreciate and enjoy a sport, but never with a true passion that exceeds, say ... bouldering with them (think rock climbing but without a rope), I thought it ... , acquainted myself with the wall, and attempted the beginner level- success

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  've been very precious with preserving my energy. Even then, I'm not ... chair, talking with myself to work through some thoughts. Moments of ... dancing alone in my room to some tunes. Here are 4 songs for you, with

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun ... won’t bore you with the details, even though it was AMAZING and I feel ... rides, so here’s those interspersed with some photos of Iceland (that

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  students with a team-based product development experience. Students will ... pack into Kresge, MIT’s largest auditorium, with overflow rooms and a ... watching Animo, below, in person with my jaw dropping to the floor. https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... computer doing work, and then I'd be struck with an inexplicable sadness ... afternoon and ended an hour before he came back. It doesn't interfere with my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  moment. A “normal” person would just respond with a number and be done with it Why does anyone care what I think of this pie The 1 to 10 scale seems arbitrary and intellectually lazy, with far too much potential

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  2014, someone met up with the MBTA Director David Carney to ask him why ... that time," Carney said. Coming from an area with virtually no public ... you learn to put up with when you're a country mouse coming to the city

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  grappled with changes in my personal life that led me to question my reason ... my cooking. As if lost in a dark wood, I felt, with a direness, my ... uncannily rich in food metaphors, with perhaps the most famous example being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  zero-knowledge cryptography project with 0xparc, a crypto research organization. i got involved with 0xparc because it’s actually led by an mit ... password i want to prove to you that i took a photo with a famous celebrity

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  to navigate through difficult life territory with ease. finding people you want to enter lasting relationships with is supposed to be hard, and ... mean is that these are problems many of my friends struggle deeply with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  them. Sometimes, with the author's permission, I blog these emails, like ... . The talk inspired me to do a computer project with my high school ... nice enough to write back with a very encouraging message, and we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting ... . In my work with prospective college students, (as an admission officer ... this journey long ago, even though things were far simpler then. With

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  working closely with MIT Admissions to help organize CP*, MIT's virtual take ... with 2024s and it's been an absolute joy. I somehow convinced the ... and interacting with the prefrosh has been so incredibly rewarding, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  . Please know that, as always, we plan to work with students to be as ... , extracurricular activities, and so on. I'm writing to reaffirm that, consistent with ... working hard with campus partners and current students to bring you the best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020