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• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  with Computer Science, aka [annotation note="I just refer to it as Urban ... , and urban food deserts. At MIT, I hope to collaborate with others to ... think my thought process with this was "how absurd/unusual of a topic can

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  [/annotation], brief brushes with competition math, and years of friendship with known ... have a lot of fun with these psets and always know that the TAs will be helpful with any questions that may pop up, since office hours for this

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  passage to sit in a classroom after school with a dozen other kids and watch ... don't need to. If you have to get around, hitch a ride with your friends who do know how to drive. Impress them on aux with your highly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  for the first time afterwards and getting a little key tag with a ... times with friends and have done so few things beyond the art museum and ... improvement will finally be enough for me to feel satisfied with all this work

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  drawing. Like, anytime I tried to depict people, I’d end up with wonky stick ... grateful I was able to.  things i drew Each class began with a ... , there exists many warm-ups and drafts. Every class ended off with a final

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  if what I’ve written resonates with you, feel free to reach out! there ... and math! I was incredibly lucky to attend a high school with amazing ... had come in with some exposure to math olympiads, but was convinced that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  revisiting the show Fleabag as of late and when I watch interviews with Andrew ... , along with the self-doubt. It's cringey, I thought, to make all this ... wanted to do something meaningful with my life, something bigger than

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it ... will also align with months: project 1 due two months into the semester ... the due dates will be two weeks earlier, with another due date afterward

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  call → Do the Spelling Bee with Galactic → Go to sleep → Go to the booth ... . The problem with this structure is that the choices tend to be ... " and ending with "it's not true." In the TA work choice, clicking "feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  campus boring. I find it just long enough for a good conversation with a ... with summer, the arcs in progress, and those that are just beginning. I ... . And with the new year comes a new season.  So, the walk from Next House

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  close early in Denmark, and I hadn’t been able to find anywhere with cake ... a sample. Then his co-worker came out with a pan of cheese ... work has been just one tiny piece of that, but even so, I’ve met with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  engineering team I've worked with. CJ: Oh? Xian: Well, my first internship was ... , but I only worked on a side project with a research team, of about ten ... design, and for that I'm working with another person. Then I'm asking about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  about how the strongest ongoing theme is coping with contradictory ... anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in ... with some more contradictions. for one, i (don't) want to do work. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  limits of what i thought was possible with present-day technology. in this ... content before teaching it, please take all of the following findings with ... conversation with themselves. there were two figures in the simulation - the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  weary guests with tired feet navigate the large park. [caption id ... the T on my way to MIT. I was filled with that very same childish ... Cambridge, in general, makes me nearly vibrate with anticipation. Excitement

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... what you want, with fewer requirements. “Oh, I know a guy doing that ... laugh, just smiled with a vague sense of foreboding. # “I’ve never met

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  who walk with me after in-person classes. I wander alone down the ... .012 and 8.022, are like city highways: five lanes packed with cars merging ... somewhat excited for this class. This is a seminar class with discussions

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  blogs, I actually moved to Maine with some friends when we first got ... hand, I’m gonna have an amount of time with myself that I haven’t had in ... something to gnaw on. So with that preface, here it is: ***Overall Disclaimer

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  laugh, and formed a small group of friends, who we’d sit with at lunch ... to keep up with that persona we felt we had established. We began to cover our mouths with the palms of our hands whenever we felt a smile or

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  assigned. My parents (who met at a university with a mandatory 20-meal ... with kitchens instead of a dining hall, and a 10+ minute walk from any ... eat with my family, of course, the meal depends on all of our wants and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019