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  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  minutes left in my assignment. So - this will have to be quick. Consider ... (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US ... suspicion that Lisa and I actually share a consciousness. Anyway, I wanted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  about how to make my participation fun. Then I thought, well, why shouldn ... experiences. One project wasn't enough to make generalizations for. My list ... frustration led me to make qboard. When I thought about what I've made up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... , making sure to state that Riri was a resident of Simmons dormitory. Erick ... , in use 90% of its available time. So, it made perfect sense to make

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  . We chose this major by thinking endlessly about what we want to do with ... existence as that last sentence may make it out to be. We'll be able to work ... rewarding. We'd know we are contributing to making a beautiful and useful

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... and speakers and all -- you know, those devices that are meant to make

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  air, as freshmen were trampled by upperclassmen rioting to reset the ... class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... , Burton-Conner's internet went out. Somewhat analogous to the power outage

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... out of bed to get ready (bathroom, brushing teeth, etc.). Making it out ... semester and I want to make them special, I put on my very favorite shirt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  felt terrified by the idea. I was scared. "I think something I have to ... helping make these kinds of decisions. In the meantime, we talked to other ... were talking to. I understood what was meant by delegation and you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... the heart. I got by on 3-5 hours of sleep then. Soon, the lessons began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  , when I had to spend the first night reading twenty dense pages of Plato ... pretty enough to make me wish I could swim. Well, one of my friends Daniel ... across the pool with the fins on, and he had to make sure everyone (else

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  tuning back out every once in a while to make sure I don't get hit by a car ... . Most apartments won't let you make modifications to the walls or flooring ... you live off campus is so variable, there's no way to make a universal

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow ... they will get things done quickly and efficiently so no need to worry ... Education Health and Safety Workshop just to make sure you realise you're

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  .100L. You have to decide this switch by the end of the very first week ... -5+6-5+6-5 to get 3, or have to copy it from somewhere on the page). This has been ... didn't need anymore. I quickly messaged and went to claim it from her

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  smack Adam and ask when he wants me to get him up (he can't get up by ... to do this by the end of sophomore year. I'm running a little behind. 1 ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  them) so I guess I was trying to appease them. This all makes me a little ... admissions decision season is nearing, here's a bonus link to a page on the ... to enroll at MIT, I read obsessively about student life at MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  choose which dorms to live in. You live with people and you make memes ... the surprise of many. After all, a writing team needs to make so many ... meet in Cambridge had to make other plans. This year, Galactic decided to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there ... much because I have seen everything there is to MIT (by far impossible

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  make sure it stays on the front page -- thankfully I've only needed to do ... disciplined and make consistent content. I'm going to use it to motivate myself to make some low-commitment dailyvlogs, avoiding scripts and mostly

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into ... founders posted on some forums I frequented - and being amazed by people who ... make these really awesome mostly dangerous things. There are, as you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  make things a lot harder for others, who then have to pick up the slack ... state to generate ideas by forcing yourself to work at certain times ... happened to me back in high school, it make me dependent on validation and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025