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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of ... my senior year as practice for the PSAT on October 17. No test prep, no

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  side and that each section has much food for thought, so feel free to ... questions I still have for myself and the things I think about as I search for ... from waiting for Early Action decisions. Maybe these thoughts can help if

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  , runner. I signed up for running mainly because I was not coordinated enough for team sports. Even though I am six feet tall, I always found ... folks like me in the middle distances freed up the shorter distances for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note ...  happened. It was the hardest year for me academically. I was filled with ... person--growing up, my mom signed me up for a million different sports

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  it's about time I tackle some of the more difficult things for me to talk about. These are pretty hard for me to talk about, mainly because I ... rest by finally writing about it. Glass Blowing For those of you who don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  : Writing and Reading Short Stories  I didn’t write a single short story for ... in my work (which I wasn’t doing for the class, so he really didn ... the semester, and I’m still extremely grateful for his leniency and open

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  For those who know me well, you'll know that I'm an absolute sucker for personality tests. I've done practically every personality test ... 'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves ... to farmers. I asked Hassan for pictures of the chicken farm and hE SEn ... graduating (aside from the chicken farm!) and reached out to him for this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  would say, take time for yourself, because otherwise it's hard to be ... , today is a day for writing about vegetables." Ben and Vincent wrote two ... the news and think pieces and editorials for quite a while. And after

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  . We had lost contact for about a decade and by complete coincidence both ... dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written ... to me from me for my 21st birthday. Its lid broke during the move from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  the past overeating was a problem for me: sometimes I'd have a ... cook for my brother and I. Apart from one summer where I mastered only a ... , extracurriculars, and preparing for the [annotation note="Oh, how I hate to remember

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage ... signed up for the course this fall. I also wanted to take this class ... already had for video. Lastly, I wanted to learn the basics of Premiere Pro

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow ... beautiful for an Asian woman? I was young enough to think that I already knew ... given both of us an easy hubris, the sureness that we were destined for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have ... and financial cost to family, and so on. but the most chilling part for ... complete loser who feels really really good for a few hours every day.’ He

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  on the back, which you’ve wanted for like two years. take the extra ... for the first time, because you know questions will come up over and ... instructor note - it’s a snow day announcement. endorse an answer for the first

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... . Cooking for thirty people was no easy task. Every year, a menu would go up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the ... . I was extremely excited for all of these papers, albeit a little ... fulfills for people. It helped explain why people became fans of things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  understand, and ready for change. Topics include specifications and invariants ... representation independence; design patterns for object-oriented programming ... applications and to account for human intelligence from a computational point of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in ... ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020