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• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  become so famous due to the sheer concentration of bloggers on the floor ... . "We want to go to MIT?" "So do lots of people!" On that topic, I feel ... about how I gave presentations on campaign finance reform, instead of just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  up my vital signs. The third rider on the shift was one of the new ... on Thursday I made my way from 2.007 lecture to the second floor of the ... next thing I remember is lying on the floor with one of the red cross

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  't see? Things sitting on top of things, things inside of things, heat and ... , the streets after a day of rain reflecting colors in the sky, and I said ... new and strange and wonderful and I was never told what beauty was or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo ... surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... garden of temporary statues. "Hammer Time." The scene resumes. I

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  coffee drinking expert. Plus, I had found a whole new community of people ... CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  too", and a lot of "time to focus on regular apps, then", and a lot of ... it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i ... nature of writing in the admissions blogs. it's been two years, so the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  part of, like tech squares or the assassins guild or esp or puzzle club ... things. how's east campus these days? or, what's going on with mystery hunt? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Last year, I spent the entire summer working at ETS in Princeton, New ... wanted two things 1) travel farther 2) focus on architecture. The answer ... world. Currently, there are 11 branches of MISTI (China, Japan, France

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  One new section of our application this year distinguishes between ... the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  's associated with it's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. But instead of sitting in front of a television watching an 8-bit blue hedgehog in snazzy red ... night, Berklee College of Music hosted an audience that ranged from moms

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection ... Driver looked at his watch, and his grimace brought on another wave of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  satellite, and on efficiently co-locating data from different types of ... , so I eventually gave up and got down on one knee in front of a few ... soon,[/annotation] and I wanted to start a new project focused on

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  of my ability to go, "Haha, yeah, I like that show," and move on. Being ... -changing. I'd initially read the English translation of MDZS, but I moved on to ... , and before long, every single piece of paper I could get my hands on was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  Hello world! My name is Kayode Dada, and I am one of the seven new ... "]am[/annotation] an active fan of Blaseball, the ninth best game on the internet in 2020 ... hats are my way of self expression on my head. The Green Monster hat

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  new perspective on what it means to put something down on the page. It ... about what's been on my mind lately. Time, I thought. The linearity of ... got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10 ... downstairs with two sets of fridges, washing machines—sans [annotation note="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  speed and the direction really depends on how you live the rest of your ... and easy way to expose yourself to tons of new material. 3. Tell a good ... You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 ... parts of the Boston area I *still* haven't seen: Museum of Fine Arts ... , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  department/school, at Medical, at Student Support Services, and so on. Lack of ... wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The same thing will happen with Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  . Our posters had Krotus, the dark lord of 5th East, on them, with ... . And we did a four-or-five-story tall projection of Krotus on the side of ... , MacGregor, it's Entry Rush). 5th East now has nine new freshmen

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005