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• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  Hi everyone, I'm taking a short break from reading applications today ... ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the department here in India. so they arrange make up test in october 28th but i

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that this "old" sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that's four years ago!!), is also my most recent sketchbook because I've hardly drawn for myself

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  特别的爱给特别的你 我的寂寞逃不过你的眼睛 This summer, during [annotation note="which I ... -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... items of food for each of us. I ate some skewers and a piece of taiyaki

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting plants. I'm not exactly sure when; it might have been after my former ... , where it bloomed fragrantly, like jasmine, and grew bright yellow lemons I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  I'm writing this blog sitting on an Amtrak train speeding from Boston back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... poorly, which by that point wasn't really a surprise. I could go into

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... campus!), or hanging out with family (if you're at home). I did this unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even ... with my friends was more challenging than I expected after getting sent

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  during IAP. It is student-taught: I actually knew/were friends with several ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of ... , casting, overriding, interfaces, exceptions, I/O, and testing with JUnit

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city. a fragment: narratives as mnemonic devices a story: i spent last ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... all-time high. I have a Basic account, but I could try Premium free for ... street cred. Sometimes I flip through my contact list and wonder, “what

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  This year I have been helping my little cousin Danielle* with her ... . I thought that the conversation might be relevant to you too, so here ... . I know that everyone has ringtones with Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Lil

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  Shankar. So I've got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I figure that can wait a few days. Because I got to thinking this afternoon. The other day Mike, who I may or may not know, asked... "What are you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from ... tickets were being awarded based on a lottery system. I entered the lottery within the next 45 seconds because...   ...how could I not go? The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... Kelley. Though I am not allowed to share details about the film itself (no spoilers), I have (c o m p l e t e l y p a i n l e s s l y :’-)) transcribed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  You know, lately, I've been hearing this sound. Everywhere I go, like a tick, tick, tick. — tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) Recently, I’ve had ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  have to immerse yourself into this persona if this isn’t you, so I’ve tried my best, through one of my favorite mediums, short stories: I go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  and present a new kind of medicine. I have no recollection what my medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those yellow Johnson's baby shampoo bottles. I spent hours decorating that label

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  I realize I went on this mindblowing trip with MIT 3 years ago and never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me if I thought DEAPS would be fun. Would it be fun or would it be a waste

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  I am writing this from an internet cafe just outside Lusaka, Zambia ... humidity are minor concerns. Last night, I ate dinner at a fast food ... butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  preface: this blog is comprised of various snippets I wrote in May, very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... blog is the album Blue Moon Safari by Air and Vegyn :-) Last fall, I

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025