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• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  Last weekend, I wrote “A Guide to Farmer's Markets". Here’s what I ... think vegetables are a *big deal*, but anyway, my point is, I don't think ... --especially when, in this day and age, bad news is always a mouse-click away. Rather

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  A few weeks ago I did an interview with the Raising Problem Solvers ... MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into how we think about issues that have been discussed on the blogs for a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  As if someone flipped a switch, this year's unnaturally warm autumn ... ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard ... passion. To be fair, MIT may have cultivated a different culture than these ... year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  iafisher.com website which features a series of geography quizzes regarding ... , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the time, Jonathan only knew basketball. A few hours later, he had memorized

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally ... , since it's not a question of whether I belong or not; it's doubt of my ... that every MIT degree is made equal, whether that means a 5.0 GPA or a 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really ... you pictures of the muscles I have not sustained, and I drew a bunch of skeletal structures, glued pipes together. I can code a bit in Fusion now

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  the rooftops of Greece before moving into a quaint apartment with seven ... distance and the time and the everything else placed such a strain on us, I ... that was difficult and confusing. I remember staring in a mirror and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Coco; a full, encapsulating, body-shaking sob. Even minutes after the movie had ended, my hands shook with such a fierce tremor and I remember just calling up my grandparents and telling them how much I love them. A

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  going through a "jesus I do NOT have my life together and really need to ... gave up on bullet journaling within a few weeks. My effort level had gone to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a ... I had attempted to be (for lack of a better cliche) jack of all trades and therefore, master of none. I was more of a humanities

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school ... tied to any high school. We were the only 2 girls on a 8-person team, and ... school for funding, and started a team there: Team 4550, “Something’s Bruin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... like I could have found a cure to cancer, ignorance, AIDS, made an ... , Chinese, Klingon, and Gibberish, get a 3250 on my ACT and still not got in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  organization. As an MIT undergraduate, Smith was a member of the student team that built a solar car and drove it across the Australian outback in the ... to the Class of 2015 as well, with a post on the wall of the class

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be ... mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you ... never become a successful computer scientist." I then take a couple of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... , kids) or taking a (very) brief study break. But something whisked me away ... interface. I need to tell you a story, prospective students and fellow MIT

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

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to ... seems like a better time, as people prepare to arrive on campus and start ... from time to time. :-) I am also publishing this because (a) I really

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall ... . For example, the stir-fry station at Simmons only has a selection of 8-10 different vegetables (which is admittedly already a lot), but you can double

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got ... as a rejection with prolonged pain. What I didn't know is that those 2 months allowed me to discard a single vision of my future and evaluate what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... organized and arranged all these things into a hopefully aesthetic square ... ) Freshman Arts Program trinkets: a puppet we made for our fiber arts group

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019