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• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  i choose that will still be meaningful and make me memorable to the ... felt a lot less intimidating to answer, so I wrote about making oboe ... something. Despite regular practice, I failed to make reeds of an acceptable

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  jumping from side to side. To their credit, they did so quickly, but in ... it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out ... , along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  I do have a few quick things to talk about. So, our good friend Ben ... Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so ... so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  this stuff, which probably took dozens of man-hours to make, up in the ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real-world adventures and social-engineering, and they use 'hax' or 'haxxed' to denote the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  means people are forced to "crowd" a room by turning a double into a ... . Please feel free to ask me questions, either by commenting on the blog or ... allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  able to make it to the 2 pm showing of The Vagina Monologues.    ... by [annotation note= "my urban dance team’s annual performance. we had ... day went to setting up decorations, doing some last-minute rehearsal

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  cycles – making rounds from “Hey…I can do this…” to “OMG. This is ... escapes from the tennis courts to a vast Briggs Field trademarked by the ... ? (Carved by Andrew Hoy '10) Do you see what's in here? To no surprise

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  .[/annotation] Meanwhile, TurboVote — a software system that makes it easier to register to ... by doing: indeed, to be civically responsible is to put into practice ... that inform Institute affairs, make policy recommendations to serve

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  internalized misogyny, by other people’s expectations of who I was “supposed” to ... got to make up a story and give my problems to a fictional character ... Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... attention to myself. By the way, those boards are amazing. The professor ... As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  the present day: this story was emailed along to me by Ellen Stordy, who ... from." Currently, McGee is giving back to the community by volunteering ... assistance he can. "I feel like it's my duty to make an impact on the world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  blogs was. I like to think that people are defined by two things — the ... giant T spoon that i made over the holidays. brought to you by the letter ... years, i have had more of this sense of "i am allowed to make whatever

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  project to be whisked away by a full timer the moment I get stuck, that I ... your favorite child, but Sam deserves to be loved by his mother too.  I ... moving forward.  So don't waste the time I don't have And don't try to make

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  plates over to the MGH DNA Sequencing Center, making chemicals, messing ... blogs since school ended. To be honest, this summer had been wonderful ... to upload everything yet =/). The Taiwan Phase: May 24, 2008 to July 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0 ... make sure that those questions that you do have get answered by students ... . So don't judge a book by it's cover, and take a chance to try something

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  visit the Museum of Fine Arts, learn how to make data visualizations like ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets, tests, med school interviews, extracurriculars, and more. By the time

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  , prompting them to make enough noise so that we could find them. I've found it ... One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th ... denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... by the committee during regular action. You are at no advantage or ... any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  deferred because your application was already strong enough to make you a ... by the committee during regular action. You are at no advantage or ... any other updates you'd like to provide (new awards, changes to your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  Alley," but to make matters confusing all of the dorm addresses are on "Memorial Dr." Adding to it is that everybody just calls it dorm row. View Larger Map Anywho, if one were to visit dorm row today they'd see minivans

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008