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• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  Oh, boy, I feel like I have so much to tell you guys and yet things ... answer a question I frequently receive: "So now that the class has been ... ?" (Hah! The answer is definitely 'no' - elaboration to come.) But I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Off to Southeast Asia Even Admissions Officers get to take a vacation sometimes.

  

  Today, I leave for three weeks of vacation in Southeast Asia ... ? So, I'll be visiting Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and I'm pretty excited about all of those places. Should be a great trip. While I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  /11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3"][/audio] I had a very difficult time my freshman fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  this blogpost was meant to be something else since i've been frankly living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a refined way. i've been thinking a lot about innocence and love and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a ... halfway point at MIT. Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I like to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... ...fun) Unfortunately, not only am/was I sick. I was really, really sick. I’m still not exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I pored over whatever I could find, usually defaulting to MSNBC or CNN to ... . And then I found an article that suggested lip gloss might cause cancer

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  have passed (read: the 4th) so what's your favorite blogger up to? I don't know, I'll go ask Yan. But if you're interested in what your 4th or maybe 5th favorite blogger is up to, I can tell you! Besides traveling (and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It Was Here. It goes: But I love you more than words can say I can't count

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it's been a while. I've been silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to be away from the blogs, since I'm so accustomed to posting every week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  This past Monday, I found out that I passed my national EMT exam.  I was so happy - now I am officially a nationally certified firefighter and EMT!  Little did I know, my new skills as an EMT were going to be

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  I've been crossing things off my master to-do list (nerd alert) and there's one item I've been staring at guiltily for far too long: blogging. As it turns out, this semester was.....well....I learned a lot of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for that matter, I have an account for just about everything, but by no means ... 's right, I have a Twitter account, but I DON'T USE IT, SO STOP FOLLOWING ME

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this ... most true to what I do. I started with the actual letter I wrote to ... , hopefully this format makes sense. I'm donating half of the income that I

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  Wrapped is unfortunately a little underwhelming, since I use Spotify for < ... /artists, so I only actually recognized one out of my top five artists this year ... auditory engagement—I spend most of my time as a shamelessly mindless

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  with many people. i am not really sure what i mean by that, but i just hear about the tungsten cube more than most other things.  i looked at ... legit to me, although i might just be too generous with my judgment. he

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and unprecedented, but I hope you can read and enjoy nonetheless Ever since I moved to this apartment in Cambridge, I've started to cook more, and I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be scrolling through the packing playlist I made on spotify last month (mostly screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  I solemnly swear that I am about to tell the truth, the whole truth ... a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... spout one-liners about passion and hard work. I have been known to mention

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005