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• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  survived!   For EnergyHack, I was on a team with my friend Josephine R ... would be catered dinner. I’d had a midterm and a major essay on Thursday ... the opening event on Friday. Josephine is a chemical engineer, Rick

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  -one, right?" I laughed her off because I wasn't planning on drinking anyway. She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I ... heartbreak that creeps up on you: don't wait for me, I can't come, that slow

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a ... everybody who I have left on read this summer; I promise I'll get back to you ... [/annotation]or working on the side-projects I need to work on, I've been going out into the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  my work, I can hang out on the internet for 30 (or, you know, maybe 45 ... [annotation note="I'm kinda lonely in NYC lol. Post on that coming soon..."]not a lot ... voracious readers, I'm definitely a bit behind on discovering Libby. But now

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  with the phantom taste of salt and light broth on my tongue, there was ... 're in right now. i have been ruminating on care, in all its forms, and it ... taking care of others   on self-care i think the meaning of self

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  y or any of the numerous other sentiments that focus on the status of ... you can reduce the amount of pain other people inflict on you by ... reading i’ve done on relationships has been about communication difficulties

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  fell asleep, though, dreams took over. On occasion, I would wake up from ... someone I’m working on a novella or a short story, I never get those kinds ... somewhere between 30 and 90 minutes long. The class met once a week, on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  wanna graduate on time. The only problem is that there are so many cool ... anyone who goes to MIT,” a bearded farmer told me when I worked on a farm ... … engineering, but with an environmental focus?” I’d seen it listed on the course

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  to Killian Court. We set up next to some trees on the right and figured ... where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian ... individual bristle. I picked up the bubble wrap lying on the floor from an

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  : 2021 Yeah, uh. There’s not exactly much going on here. Some things on my calendar of note (aka, all of the things on my calendar): Science Bowl: we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  temple bell "found on a scrap heap in Yokosuka...in 1945." [carousel image ... . [carousel image1="57835" image2="57836" /] On the other side of a gnarly ... , instead of continuing on to the Common, we headed back to MIT over the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  back on it now, I know she was doing that because the kids at my school ... to do a post on my skincare routine, but unsure if there's interest. Hm ... useless repetition. Senior year, I focused on making a change to put less

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  screenshot of my spreadsheet. I went to 18/33 of the events I put on my ... actual event, we also had to go on a few shopping trips, including one to a ... cake on fire" event. Apparently to set a cake on fire, you need a LOT of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  11:52 AM on June 9th, a cool but sunny day in Johannesburg. I took an uber to my Airbnb and after meeting my host and getting the run down on ... that early on in my trip I could see clear distinctions in the variety of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  my time on weekday nights has been dedicated to studying scientific ... or systems that use it. For instance, the second week, we focused on ... algorithm that makes the Kinect work, and based on the frequency with which

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  participate. We heard some great questions from the audience, worth sharing on ... not represent the views of other students. For diverse personal takes on ... currently live on the First East floor of East Campus.   What are you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  ), they would never come anywhere near biology. Group B on the other hand is ... cancer detection, how can I simulate this phenomenon on a chip, etc. I ... ) which is always a surprise to students at MIT course 20 and not. On the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access everything on my laptop (thank goodness, because my life depends on Google ... ) was MIT’s graduation and I was looking at all the pictures on Facebook

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  program, typically on the days when we wear our uniforms. So here are our ... inspection on the left photo. In the right photo, Rachel is on the left and Tessa is on the right, excited for an incentive flight on a KC-135

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  ’t worry so much! You’ll be happy wherever you end up!”, and so on. Okay ... ? Well, I’m not on any admissions committee, so I can only speculate ... . Focus your application on some of these points. Or at least keep them in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015