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• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  know that there are four different states your interview can take on the ... 'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  wait until after Eid, so you can have your interview on a full, nourished ... is completely optional): "On a separate sheet, show us and/or tell us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  Coyoacán, a neighborhood on the southwest side of the city famous for dense ... restaurant on the 56th floor of a building overlooking the city to one side and Chapultepec park on the other. [carousel image1="117382" image2="117346" image3

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  on campus, and towards the end of this past semester, she invited us to ... . She describes the gap between what you write on your application and ... we did in high school. Everything we wrote on our applications came

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  the resources we wish we’d had when applying to college and deciding on ... went on campus tours, interacted with student ambassadors during Q ... knew about them came from movies or TV shows. But unlike what I saw on

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  heavy and silver with fish. The air is warmer, though not warm, and on ... essays my neighbor gave me as a graduation present. I went on long morning walks and ate many large meals every day, and on most days, found time to

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  deciding on a course of action, which is very useful for student government ... everybody on a team is happy and healthy and working together, and who has the ... person who takes on these sort of soft skills, while I do more of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  )! And don’t even get me started on other things like displays, memory, and ... hitting your eyeballs right now. With the 2023 Nobel Prizes still fresh on ... you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  curls and incline sit ups. A few weekends ago, at 1PM on a Saturday (most ... of the week based on how you plan to spend them. Athena and Leo have ... on my existence.  Despite everything, though, I realized after some

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  week, on average (the first month we read one book per week, circa 200 ... meant I knew what was going on in my Harvard classes. I plan to prioritize ... !![/caption] working out :D After a year off the bandwagon, I jumped back on and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  [annotation note="the newly renovated library located on the east side of campus ... the next few days. surviving on snacks and free food scavenged from ... consume so many episodes on a 'school day'. the next day, which was the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  's incredibly hard to live on your away from home, especially with your friends ... . It's important to establish this early on with your roommates if you ... more tidy and nice. Keep things well stocked. If you're on your last

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  stupid one of the group. No matter how many pats on the backs and heartfelt ... morals. Would you work for a company that works closely on military ... in hell in getting a job out of undergrad but on the off chance that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AllTrails said that it was sometimes filled up by 7. And even on three ... definitely surpassed Switzerland for me as the most beautiful place on Earth ... perfect, there were cool streams of glacier water to splash on your sweaty

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  Phase I: Recognition I sit down on my bed. My heart is racing. I am ... late! Communication was bad on both ends; you’ll get it done. And the ... time on it? No! They’re asking us to do all of these things and we don

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  vector on every vertex except the lower-left one. (If I drew it starting ... process. Draw the next vector on each vertex if it’ll be “outside”, then ... these lines on top of each other:Notice that when we read the colors of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  school admission process is almost done, and I'm on track to graduate and ... I really had one place that wanted me there on January 9th. I guess ... some rare reaction pics out there that you just can't find on Google

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  involves using your hands. My high school was a magnet school that focused on ... new. I did social media research and sat in on team meetings about it ... of the scenery, all on top of fabrication. Every Tuesday, we had Thai

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  what you hope to achieve and building on your vision with concrete goals and actions. It's about taking on causes where you are 100% invested ... speech on MLK Day, in front of our cohort of 40+ undergrads, grads

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018