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• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... a place a great place, MIT checks off a lot of those boxes. With that said, a place being objectively great, doesn’t make it the best place for

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  hugs thinking about hugs remembering that one time in a summer ... over and we hugged each other for a solid five minutes and that was ... from chipotle with the app, i will have enough points to get a free

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... so many compliments, especially because the color I got was a silver ombre color that matched my winter jacket. It was also a relief to have my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... gingerly begin packing my last box. Some pictures. A couple of 3D

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... thoughts carry me away. The morning before I left campus, a group of friends and I made our way down to the Revere Beach (a short 15-20 minute

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  should make that a blog post!" So here it is, a lil post about how crazy 6 ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle ... 've done serious coding in a good while. At MIT, there's often an attitude

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... s are full of excitement and hope. As a senior blogger, I’ve gotten ... onsite interview at a healthcare software company (with travel, food, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  intimidatingly) as a “bomb cyclone” hit us yesterday with a foot of snow, and it was actually the warmest that it’s been outside in a week. This has become my standard outdoor attire: I realize I look a bit like I’m about

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  it feels like i'm drowning. --- hand foot mouth disease (what a terrible name) took me down for a week or two. it's been going around, and ... - hands and feet for a few days felt like someone was jabbing a needle into

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  . Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the ... dinner: achieved. Pepper Sky is SO GOOD) Wednesday: Wednesday was a LOT. Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  *Scene opens* I'm standing in front of a house with my family. MIT branded balloons are tied to the mailbox. There is a poster of the Dome on ... futures. At one point, we sat down and listened to a sophomore tell us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty ... reflective” today until receiving an email from a friend just now sharing her ... the loud, straining lyrics: “We have come over a way that with tears

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  too pour a few cups of flour into big bowl add one cup hot water ... make the dough into a few big lumps. put the lumps in a bowl cover with a wet towel and let sit for a few hours FILLING (VEGETARIAN

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  known, I am a *gigantic* Harry Potter nerd. I am one of those people who can name quite a few of the hundreds of really unimportant characters ... this past summer I reread the entire series for the first time in a while

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  suits replace the sweatpants+baggy tee combos and everyone clutches a folder of resumes in the hopes of getting a dream job. There are always ... a coveted internship, job, or career. There’s SpaceX, 3M, Capital One

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  1. Go home My last final ended at 12pm on a particularly ominous ... to notice much else. Thankfully, just a few hours after putting my ... was on a plane headed back to sunny southern California. My parents and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 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 ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM ... have had a great turnout amongst grad students, staff as well as new

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  college. Not even for a bit! (I'm starting to think I'm always more homesick than I realized...) It's a preposterous idea considering how many ... figured it wouldn't be the worst thing if I stayed a little closer to home

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  on the harsh overhead lights of an interrogation room, illuminating a lone blogger; perhaps a meat hook swings out of focus as we pan across the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014