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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  at MIT, I chased all sorts of side adventures, determined to make the ... then, it was one of the classes I dedicated the most time to (due to how ... practice, I learned to let go and just capture the essence of the moment

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  as much, and when I was it was to listen to specific songs. Some of ... whole phase in October where I listened to Cab Calloway's version of "St ... listened to in 2018: "24K" by Jae Stephens First discovered artist of 2018

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  to fix it and then bam — you're out of time. No good.   ... who is volunteering her time so everyone needs to be very respectful of ... shape and make a good faith effort to inform us of your circumstances, we

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... telling me that everything was going to be okay. None of my friends ever

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat. Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now seems like a good time to tell you about two programs that I'm involved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... -date and to be patient as we process thousands of documents. By not calling ... year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  forward to waking up at 6:30am on friday. I'm stationed left of the stage ... of my friends graduating, I get to take care of your heat strokes and I ... I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In honor of that anniversary, I'd like to hear your stories. I know you all ... ? How excited? How did you react when you found out you were going to be a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  ... a new version of you? (Did anyone watch Felicity? These lyrics are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show ... in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  whole week, and I had to climb up 10 flights of stairs every day ... to spend on whatever we want – all funded by Simmons house funds, of ... Woot woot! Simmons is now 20 years old! To celebrate this joyous

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to have that ... do not need to express mail or overnight any part of your application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on ... , semesterly dues every month, the possibility of having to live in the house ... dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  pillow to the second it hits the pillow again, I am moving. For the sake of ... miss the amount of blogging I was able to do last semester. I miss ... sleeplessness. I hate the nagging desire to escape MIT at the end of the week. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  were being kicked out of our dorms. Due to this, I was under the ... of struggling to define expectations, going back and forth between ... phone to take videos of the entire property. Alternatively, bring someone

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  sign of concern; that they care about you enough to both remember what ... and bones", which is viewed as a sign of malnourishment. To eat food and ... by the people I talked to growing up. Stories of "the freshman twenty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  out of counter space, threw myself onto the kitchen floor to begin ... . Diana '08 went to the trouble of bringing out a pasta maker and making her ... of work... even longer than the 24 hours it took to cook my apple

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up ... Halloween so I guess I had to make cookies. My favorite halloween cookies are

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC is the primary ... many ideas, and having learned something new. This year, some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  who still doesn't ask women out, due to fear of being labelled as creepy ... 't learn to handle a tendency of mine if I'm trying to deny it even exists. So I try to be realistic about the costs of rejection. Dismissing my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022