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• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  , only taking pictures with a color balance approximated below: I tend ... around visual aids; consequently, I hope you find this mostly text ... name is Gordon and I’m from sunny Santa Monica, California. Most would

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As ... life... at least, until next Thursday. Oh, next Thursday. What am I doing now that I've won this most presitigious of awards? Sitting in lab

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  I like music. A lot. And I like telling other people about the music that I like. I message my friends fairly often asking if they’ve listened ... 2018. I keep having new ones, and I want some way to document why I like

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  Castor, Let Your Mind Run Last year, I ran just over 1200 miles. I have ... still trump change among those who really run. As the years go by, I see a lot of life reflected with each mile that goes by. I am not a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  I’ve gotten a little better at planning. I use a Notion now like all the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  from something better: 'Cause all my life, I've seen these skies It's paradise, paradise And every time I leave this place I'm terrified, terrified And I still think back to that summer And I hate that I still remember

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  A note about the title: when I was little, my mother (who is a 5th ... hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... ?) Today was my DOFMH from the lab... I've only taken three days off this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  science for 30 years. No no. I'm serious. Well, this is it: the last time I'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to the little Turkish internet cafe on the corner tomorrow. But I'm pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  see"). That's how I feel about advice: it's something that's by nature ... (mirar) with different verbs. I can't think of an appropriate transitive ... they ultimately take it. I rarely take advice. That's why I'm not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• FAQ / International applicants

  Am I domestic or international if I hold dual citizenship?

  Students holding dual citizenship should apply to MIT with their U.S. citizenship status. Students holding non-U.S. dual citizenships may select their preferred country as their application will be listed as…
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Should’ve Been Working When I Drew These ✨but i wasn't✨

  

  ="attachment_77409" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] i should've been writing my final ... " align="aligncenter" width="400"] i honestly don't remember the context for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  , as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I worked? I told myself, in freshman spring, that I would never take 4

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  relationship with food, health, and fitness has always been rocky. I don't know if I can really pinpoint where it first started but I definitely have a ... school, I was relatively hyperconscious about my weight and my physical

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  I have experienced love before, at least I think so. Awkward hand ... periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and whispers of "I miss you" as electricity carried our voices hundreds of miles

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  Sunday, October 6th   12:00 PM: I wake up. When I pick up my phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I ... right through the alarm.   1:00 PM: After debating if I really

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  “I pulled a sophomore stupid” said my friend as we tried to finish up our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... sophomore stupid.  I reached my limits, and I really think I learned a lot

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  Last week, I dropped 9.15 from my preregistration schedule for the ... terms, was the class I was looking forward to the most. The problem, however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... yeah, i'm turning twenty, it's terrifying, i talk about how i hate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  If you’re deferred during Early Action consideration, you don’t need to “improve” your application, or redo/edit/modify your application. The only thing you need to do is submit the February Updates…