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• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  portfolio make reasonable sense to be reviewed by faculty and staff experts at ... Submit section at the end of each portfolio in SlideRoom. To request a fee ... the words of a wise colleague, “Don't throw spaghetti at the wall and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  endless things happening all at once. Most importantly: 1) I finished my ... talking about the general excitement of being back at school. It was so nice ... at recruitment didn't even bother giving us a chance, just flat out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... things, it's just hard to enjoy them all at once. two here's an example ... i put upon myself the task of writing a website i liked. at first i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  . When I took a gap year before coming to MIT, my friends at home would ... image1="64800" image2="64803" /] It feels so weird looking at these ... bleached hair looks good, or whatnot, it doesn't feel like it. When I look at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  forgiving rather than penalizing. No lives, no restarting at the beginning of ... found too hard. Celeste allows you to play at a pace that's good for you ... 'm good at keeping up appearances, but the truth is I'm barely holding it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  concerned when I opened the rice bag one day and something came flying at me ... stuff ends up falling out if there isn't enough space at the top to make a ... 'll need to get steel wool at some point. It's a fun little game I play

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  was towards the beginning of the project. I could work at my own speed ... always talk about drinking from the firehose at MIT, but I don’t feel like ... learned in class to the “mini-quizzes” at the end of some lectures; Tuesday

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on ... school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and ... any indication that this was happening while I was at CPW. When I got

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here ... .lab[/caption] At the end of week 4 is the awards ceremony, because web.lab isn’t just ... server, a hotloader, and my browser, at the same time. This isn’t supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  .01L lecture, I would wake up at a crisp 8:30AM, wash up, eat some ... days of IAP where I felt a little less than human. I would wake up at 2 ... drained. I've probably applied to at least thirty or so places and haven

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  looking at the stars -- small and yet enormous, alone and yet so comfortably ... west campus, at least!) But honestly, getting a tiny bit away from campus ... management, and I'd expected that I would be pretty bored by the books at Dewey

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  : Dream of the Red Chamber (at Harvard). Dream of the Red Chamber, or 红楼梦 ... project. He expects to all leave lecture marveling at our own bodies ... I was a puppy here at MIT, my job was to finish things as efficiently

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  "Meltdown" about the difficult time she was having at MIT. It was a beautiful ... support at MIT. I'm very grateful that she blogged it. A few weeks ago, The ... . In the dorms at MIT, we work adjacent to each other like parallel play

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  amount of extracurricular classes taken, etc. etc. etc. At times it seemed ... terrified me. When I looked at students that got into schools like MIT I felt ... knew that there was nothing I loved more. I loved the faculty at my high

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  , volunteering at MGH, trying to not fall asleep, EMS, club meetings, staring blankly at my computer screen, and many more things! Also, as a note, the ... classes at the start of the semester (a total of 72 units) and ended up with

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  August. I messed up at times. Looking ahead, I can imagine few famously ... shuts down at about 5 am and yields to sleep. Not worth it (#15). Despite ... entertainment spots. My foreign nature was giddy with excitement at all the lights

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  . Pie will seem large and poofy. Let sit for at least ten minutes to cool ... , eating healthy and getting enough nutrients on a vegetarian diet at MIT has ... eating a meat-filled diet here at MIT, you should take a look at Michael C

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  fell asleep, marveling at how "smooth" our trip had been and how "lucky ... the edges of the rain fly enough. There was a swimming pool at either ... minutes late to meet our friend, who was already at the festival. We rushed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Two weekend ago, I spent my Saturday at a wonderful show called the ... people at the gym. We shared frustrations with our health. We grew to ... , surprisingly) sat in the second row; seeing her doubled over at one of my jokes

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Massachusetts Avenue, joined at the basement, the first floor, the third floor ... in my closet until I got annoyed at the exposed screws; I’m not sure if ... Christmas present that cost around $20, which at the time was a lot of money

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012