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• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the ... . During CPW, a thousand prefrosh descend upon the MIT campus to participate

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There ... getting ready to send off their MISTI applications. And it made sense too ... wanted to head back home. After a long, demanding yet equally rewarding

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  have the opportunity to explore a diverse number of science, math, and ... -Chairs --- Feel free to drop a comment if you’ll be partaking in these events, I ... Hi prospective students! I’m writing to tell you about two events

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  GERMANY!! To entertain you, though, here are a few random finals quotes that ... Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... afterwards. ...and honestly, that while is just a bit too little. Anyway, after

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor ... , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... wearing. With so many more people walking by all the time, I started to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  of the Fae was used to grieve loved ones, ie a mother that died in childbirth would be said to have been taken by the fairies to nurse a fairy ... were to first discuss the strengths of the story, then address a list of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself ... can be a good way for you to meet new people, having acquaintances with ... occasionally those people will like your tweets and amplify them to a larger

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... personal space when they get a little too close. I have decided that I will ... things that I am happy to be parting with (and a companion list of caveats

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Profiles in Courage My neighbor could kill you or save your life with her bare hands.

  

  preventing the theft of my laptop, and to all of the lovely prefrosh I had a ... top of it. So I woke up Monday morning to find that there was a five ... slightly taller than the trophy recently won by the team: I was going to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  internet a little bit, and then tip over onto my bed and fall back to sleep ... me, CPW schedule right by my head. I finally just lost the ability to ... some guest blogs very soon (we'll be harassing prefrosh to get them

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  delightful experience. I decided a good first step to get back into actually ... perfectionism by now. MIT has forced me to become much more comfortable with ... understandable to a high school audience. (Mar 3) A lot of my work this semester

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Halloween Tag In which I do a YouTube thing for a (bonus) Halloween vlog

  

  college life sometimes. My dad decided to send me a surprise Halloween ... to don costumes and wander around to all the MacGregor GRTs to get some ... handed out by our GRTs). Instead, I watched a couple people play Blokus

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy ... summer started, I had planned to become a neurologist. I knew a lot about ... interests would make me a valuable addition to an undergraduate community

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  images into your posts to make them interesting. To be considered for a ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog. We ... accustomed to keeping a blog make the transition to blogging for MITAdmissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  , to “get by”, but far below what it felt like to be swimming in new ... I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... , there was always a sort of merry, thoughtless deliberateness to my efforts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  ?” boat. We don’t want to treat this blog as a way to directly advise you ... getting accepted to MIT. We were beyond shocked and ecstatic. We Felt All ... our classes and activities! And even though it took 5 semesters to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a ... , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever A photo posted by

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use ... to bring back our [annotation note="so i would attach a photo, but they

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024