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  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry, I am still alive. Exhausted (like always), but still hanging in there ... actually a pretty traumatizing experience. A few weeks ago, I realized at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a ... Nigeria, most of us I’d like to think, were insulated from this kind of thinking. For six years I attended a school where the nature of interactions

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

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly ... weather) slowly melting, and I feel pretty good. It’s been a while I typed ... -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  was an excerpt from chemist Primo Levi’s memoir, The Periodic Table. I ... who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to that species now because I’m a blogger, so I’ll tell you about what I did

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  detail LOL[/caption] The last time I lived somewhere with four seasons (as ... , fall, and winter, I feel like these depictions do a pretty good job ... , and I am disappointed in my time management 😅😭

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  Hey! Here are some personal/academic updates. I haven't been blogging enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This semester I spent a larger than usual amount of time thinking about more

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... schedule around; it's 1-3 every Tuesday/Thursday and spring-only. I'm glad I committed to taking it since it's just as great as I expected, and I'm super

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  MIT and Harvard. I say this both because it beautifully expands the ... 't for cross registration, I might never have met some of my best friends. I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  ; During my time at MIT so far, I've learned some valuable lessons about ... .  But sooner or later, everyone hits a wall. One of the hardest things I ... , even the most excruciating failure can become a valuable asset.  I know

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... into a proposal for a functional school building. As soon as I started ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... wonder what I'm still doing here. It's true, what am I doing here?. I can't believe it's been one year already. In this intervening year, I evolved into

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  the second category, so you may wonder why I'm posting and not studying. I wasn't going to blog tonight, actually; earlier this week, I ... from studying that I can't help but share with all of you - the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do read it. Every so often, though, I follow Ben's link to his CC comments

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to remember how I was feeling last year when the deadline was coming up…and then I remembered that I submitted my application in January. Last spring I

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles "The Show Goes On" and "Battle Scars", so when I heard he was teaching at MIT this spring, I had to take his class. My friend Wenjun H. '25 had

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation ... VSVDbZUakc After realizing I've done a team update for the [annotation ... ="Hmm, after writing that sentence I’m starting to realize the contradiction of

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned how little I still know about where I live. Last weekend, I went on a grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... ?" I am sure these are a question everyone has seen at least once, if not

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in a catalogue of sorts here. I guess Fridays are whatever you make of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... ;         I don’t personally know Hendrik, but I do know Brandon. Brandon ... junk or alumni who still hang out) when I was a freshman. I initially

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013