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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  ) I am now 21 years of age 3) Spectrum wrote an article about me 4) The ... out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn ... demoing to every mascot I saw. First was Wally, the Red Sox mascot. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I ... kind of unorthodox. Back during the application season, I was pretty

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

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  helping students transition in and out of the dorm and navigating student concern during the renewal process. Being a member of this team was ... . There's quite a bit of concern that this apartment would prevent the floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away ... relationship with her father. Both emotionally wrecked me in the best of ways and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  One of the coolest things at MIT is how easily undergrads can join ... my first one this past semester and finished it over the summer ... [annotation note="One of the most eventful days of the UROP, haha"]random day

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  those same qualities. Jot down the first answers that come to mind for ... experiences you listed earlier fit into the list of qualities. If you decide not ... the apex of a paragraph or your essay. Use as few syllables and commas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the ... , there's other, broader organizations like the Office of Minority Education ... right afterwards. This was the first and only time she had gone to Rutgers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  I'm able to have because of you, as well as the future I have ahead of ... 'm thinking of you and the family. I'm thankful for all the new people I've met ... . "Kindred spirits," so to speak, as Anne of Green Gables might say--the best

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  additional context: hello! the writing below was my first ever ... for the rest of the day in the spirit of productivity. If you know me ... me feel like I’m giving up on all those core aspects of my life. At the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  the site of the first (of what I'm sure will be many) amusing Spanish ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is ... "]more difficult[/annotation] than for some of the other languages in this list ... ="attachment_74010" align="aligncenter" width="300"] this is the logo of the software a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  for this first one was my comparison of Asian countries against the ... start the essay. Of course, it's different for everyone. But I found that ... the personal details, but really, this was the essence of my application

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  of the important bits and some of the funnier jokes. Pictures could be ... insert pictures while typing. I did manage to catch some candids of the ... ??? Anyway, the debate is now beginning, more word soon. 8:11 pm Master of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the ... responsible.) Adam and I watched the latest epidode of Lost, ordered dinner

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  ridiculous number of TV shows. It's been fabulous! The test itself was pretty ... feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later ... would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  had a perfect view of Cambridge and Boston out my window. The plane was ... , one of the speakers during my Orientation challenged my classmates and ... see MIT perfectly outside the window of my fraternity. Dorm Row and the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then ... generate blogger avatars, just for the fun of it. also there are different ... . Monet’s painting). Then CycleGAN would spit out the contents of the input

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  across the hall. Sara '12 is also a resident of Conner 2. You may remember ... be the first to tell you that the day he saw me cooking corned beef hash was one of the most miraculous days ever. Sara, however, still

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  some new spins. Then we learned inversions on the first day! It was wild ... . The studio was in a super cute neighborhood in the middle of Copenhagen ... grappling. I felt that I was grasping the arc of a fight, where everything

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , where I had a line of duties waiting for me. My first duty was to take ... him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got ... the basement of MIT medical, bought fritos from a vending machine, and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014