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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library - The pin ... sofas and you are set! McCormick Front Lawn - all you need is a picnic blanket or a hammock and you are set. The big lecture halls (10-250 or 21

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... years, but they often follow a few well-trod paths: lists of classes that ... inside our individual rooms tend to be a bit more utilitarian, still

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... guitar. This has become a pretty intense hobby in the past few months; whenever you have a moment of free time, you're sitting there, jangling

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy!’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for ... it a listen and let us know what you think! https

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  free time as you might expect with a 9-6 job schedule since i was always ... [annotation note="a game that i'm independently developing in Unity ... gestating for a while and learn some new things along the way. learning

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... into a deep thought spiral. Then, sitting at the coffee counter, I start ... since you applicants are all over the world!). Waiting on a nice, sunny

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  While I’m sure some of you have a good sense of what I do as an ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day-to-day work. At MIT, each admissions officer also sits on a team that manages

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at ... greater independence. I’m a big fan of data. It can reduce complicated ... values (like a step count). Through my iPhone’s Health app, I have

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... painting your door - at least, that was my experience, but I’m sure a lot of ... painted a really ugly yellow and covered in some weird foam, so we sanded it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  Hello, everyone! It’s been a while since I last posted. Here are two ... -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5-ish classes (3 12-unit classes, a 9-unit, and a 6-unit). I think it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all ... a book (Step 1a would be to buy a book if you do not own one). These things can be pretty good, especially when you don’t have to write a five

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Habits for AY 2017 (Academic Year 2017) I’m trying something a little different. I normally spend a lot of time editing and crafting admissions ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the ... to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with ... a fraternity brother, then worked for six hours, finished by 8am

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared ... it's sunny in my room right now. yeah, i use a standing desk ... 's a closer look at the bookshelf in the corner: my room was missing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT's list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well ... helps!! Talking into a camera is awkward. CAT!!!!

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  ^"Every patch is a memory, every tear has a tale. These are the ... memories and stories, the same way that a certain song can conjure up memories of middle school. That’s something that a shiny new parka will

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by ... at this hour a fly's footfall would be distinctly heard. As you walk down the Infinite, you begin to hear a distinct patter coming from

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Epic Split Feat. Tim Beaver (Live Test 6.28) with apologies to jcvd, enya...everyone, really.

  

  A few months ago Volvo released an ad called The Epic Split in which Jean-Claude Van Damme did a split between two trucks as they drove side ... , perhaps not epic enough. So, we asked Tim if he could do a more epic split

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2014