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• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  fourth grader. I am reminded of an interview that I heard on public radio ... a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  "most read" on the side for a quick idea of what it's about). Then there ... MIT these days is pretty up on the latest social media, as is befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  about me, in general. I live on 5th East, my wonderful hall in the dorm of ... Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... 're one of his regular readers you might have seen me occasionally comment

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up ... 32 (aka the Stata Center) and taking questions, so I ran on over. The film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel ... meantime, I read applications at my house, in the middle of the woods. I used

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  loosely based on Taming of the Shrew. I remember the school most from the ... tomorrow. You may wonder what Admissions Officers do when they're on the road on a non-working day. Well, for me, I decided I'd go catch the film

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten ... around. During CPW, I was just as lost on the MIT campus as they were. But

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  perform on a particular week, you can drop by at the beginning of that week ... , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year, when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of ... his 3rd birthday, and he's celebrating some of it right here on the ... autumn leaves, the winter Ice, and the bikes on Memorial drive; Words of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  conducive to functioning on your own. you'll also miss a lot of social and ... (deservedly so). I have a lot of regrets, clearly. so that's the rundown on ... The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  , mustard-yellow couches, perfect for me to jump on when I got tired of my ... were beautiful. Standing on one of the wooden ledges, I had a clear view ... lectured on the immorality of thievery. She studied me for a little while

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we ... entire series of books on, and it’s not over yet. The main storyline is ... I can move on to the next chapter of my life and start addressing

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... ’t dislike physics at all (outside of doing badly on tests, I would say), so I ... begrudgingly dropped the class given that, and my worry of taking quite the L on

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  . Instead of sleeping, I watched some Spanish-language television dramas on ... use to store loose rubber bands in. Goodnight pile of snacks on the ... my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  thoughts on food. (PS: Even we’re a little confused about the stylization of ... an act of creation.)"](MINCE),[/annotation] a culinary group on campus ... impossible to put a finger on. I first hit something during the fall of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  rely on writing as a steady source of income, and if everything goes as ... soulless language model trained on snippets of your soul to produce said ... people can just enter these trivial prompts and then pass this work off on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  spontaneous. I’ve been working on a lot of things, actually. On filling empty ... instead of drowning in it. On not being afraid to make mistakes and get ... had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  ; blogging another thing I spent a lot of time on last IAP was working on two ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night running between dance studios on campus. I'd get back to the dorm at 10 or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... number of fashions. First, on a day to day basis, athletes have fewer hours

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  does it mean?!When I first got my grub (on Wednesday-ish of that week), I ... Two weeks ago, my life was studying. On three consecutive days, I had ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011