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• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for ... conference, Ben, Marilee & I attended a talk entitled "Lowering the Flame ... and college admissions. Parker did a nice rundown of developments over

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... Vegas! (my hometown)']a place that never sleeps.[/annotation] Even in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  year, I've felt a decided shift in the air. I've mentioned it before ... age, people feel a lot more tolerable. The world is a lot more colorful ... . I've historically been known to be somewhat of a firecracker on campus

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... time between registration and now, I also added [annotation note="a class ... , a first year learning community). I am TAing Differential Equations

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  tuesday night. it’s a phase three waltz, and i’m dancing as the ... to lead me through any steps. i was taking a phase two waltz class, at ... forward, is that it’s a call with four steps. waltz music is in three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... Thermodynamics” (which is the subtitle of this post when said by someone with a stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  Almost exactly a week ago, after a blissfully underbooked flight back to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... public transportation. It was only a few years ago that I stopped taking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  guys and only writing short updates. This makes me sad. So today I have a ... ? Uh...so this isn't really so much a fact as something I was delighted to discover yesterday afternoon. You see, my laptop has a removable

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  understand you on such a deep, fundamental level, and then... Poof. Four years ... -too-familiar-yet-not-familiar-enough campus. I'm just some girl who overshared a tad bit too much on some ... have studied abroad? Should I have taken a gap year? Should I have done

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving meal. It was a way of giving the graduate students, many of whom had all of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through; it’s mostly when i know for a fact that they have the social bandwidth ... ’t help but think you must just not be a very curious person, like, wow, you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  A couple nights ago, I cried as Raymond asked me my deepest desires ... something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... I look in the mirror I can only see a pity accept. The AOs threw a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  Many months ago, I broke my water bottle cap. I tried to find a replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could ... bottle. Story behind this is that I dropped my H2GO 20.9oz asi51197 from a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  [annotation note="I didn't have any <a target='_blank' rel='noopener' href ... .org/blogs/entry/finals-away-from-finals'>Sophomore spring</a> or <a target='_blank' rel='noopener' href='https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  ?" No, that's the first time I've heard that. A few I have heard before ... , though, we're all looking for a good match, and since each of these schools ... EVERYTHING then make a decision?" The first thing I glance at is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  packed a green Army surplus duffle bag full of all my clothes and boarded a ... , and I — a skinny seventeen year old Jewish kid from a public high school ... — a dorm known even in the eighties for its multicultural community

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of whom rides on a noble steed--those scooters that you used to sit your

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  not hit me back. i am not a very avid reader but i have lately collected ... promised to be or maybe you didn’t but i stand by the tree with no rope but a ... away into a fluff of clouds, above water—rain and lake and sea. the blue

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  50 states, 62 countries, and nearly a thousand different high schools ... , quantum and quilting, agriculture and archery — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025