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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  . We evaluate everything based on the US system. For example, students who score 6's and 7's on their A-levels are (respectively) 94 and 93 ... . One of the questions on the app. asks, "What do you do for fun?" and

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  ! Apples will be provided by your GRT on Friday, October 21. Entries are due ... floor actually has an Apple Bake Chair. While a lot of people on the other ... last fall when, as a result of the competition being on Saturday instead

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  rest of West Campus, all the West Campus dorms are on Amherst Alley, also ... place for green space; its denizens instead enjoy the outdoors on their ... see the influence of structure on culture. Senior Haus, which with its

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  week. For starters, it was raining when I woke up. Also, I was running on ... discussions on burnout and workload, and this whole story just feels uncanny in ... them (as in phone cameras). I’m glad I’m not really on social media

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  ![/caption] Happy birthday Cyan! And reader, if you choose to take on the mantle of ... !!! (map details; strategies) Any player of the game will quickly pick up on ... pace. On the other hand, mud has the power to get you stuck and almost

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  just carry on what i’m doing right now. so i kept on exploring caves deep ... walked. and so the idea slowly came to me: what if i just kept on walking ... approach would be to just use a random number generator on each square meter

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  I've talked a lot about Tagalog, and Tagalog songs, on the blogs, so ... are on friends / minsan, about Eraserheads's "Minsan", and soulsearching ... relationship with the Tagalog language. Similarly, On identity talks about

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

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  weight dumped on me shouldn’t have skipped arm day everyday last year. i ... fills you now, glowing in your chest and shining bright on your ... badges on your dirtied skin. Come, friend, you too must die. It is agony

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... finish that one pset. Don't skip meals to study longer. Don't miss out on ... or even just on a casual Friday night. I personally love going around

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Challenge consists of running the Disney World Half Marathon on Saturday and the Disney World Marathon the next day on Sunday. I saw the picture of ... completion of the Dopey Challenge requires running a 5k on Thursday, a 10k on

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... land it sits on. There are immense green lawns, interrupted by trees and ... move on to Penn State, which consists largely (69% of main campus

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  I look back on those years entirely differently now than while I was ... all the buzzwords. On the other hand, I think I got a lot out of this 100 word prompt by just throwing all my interests out there based on

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler ... embarked on some soul-searching and deep digging of MIT’s Course Catalog. I ... option was back on the table. This time, I guided my decision

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  just cover it up with the confidence of facts. Fact: I am on track to ... about in CJ's amazing post on Celeste), but the plot point I want to particularly focus on is the character named “Part of Me.” Plot spoilers begin

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  , but I only worked on a side project with a research team, of about ten ... : Well, right now I'm working on a feature, right? I'm looking at the existing code, and it was written by some person. Then I need to work on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  park, making daisy chains, swinging on swings, etc, but compulsively ... , back to procrastination. Although I was Very On Top Of Things for MIT and ... what if the stars aligned?”  They didn’t, at least not on December 14th

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  . In 8.01 alone I spent nearly 7-9 hours each week on psets, and even ... , there were peers who were spending more time on the psets and not finding ... 't completely easy. I still had to ask for help on questions, but when explained

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  dining hall varied, depending on who you asked from “not fit for pigs” to ... to be stifling, but we found a way to rely on one another for ... mosques in return, provoking an equivalent assault on churches. The actions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... . Some ISEF alumni, like Feng Zhang, are even on the MIT faculty. I got into Phoenix around 3AM on Thursday morning after a long, delayed, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... was at 10am on Saturday. I showed up at 9:40 (we're supposed to arrive ... to try and 1) turn on the lights and 2) make the projector system work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013