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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... give you written feedback and a preliminary decision based on the current

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  becoming the person that I want to be? Is the pain on the way to getting ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... major, making music, writing poems—the list goes on. These posts will be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  a plaque out of red acrylic to go on the base. We were so close to ... thought, maybe it’s missing something. What happened to the other colleges ... some design inspiration from that. Since I didn’t want Harvard to be the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... of the Milk that he posted on these blogs two years ago: Nineteen years ... bought the milk carton and made his way to his floor—Bonfire—only to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at ... ! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  home to find dinner on the table. Hooray for boyfriends who can cook! (It ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  Life steps on the brakes, and the car screeches and you just have to ... bigger than the mind that gave birth to it. Wish me luck on June 19th. ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  -looking fluffy crystals landed on my jumper. I looked up in confusion to see the ... , to ‘hit the ground running.’ The painful struggle to get through the coursework, the realization that I had to drop a class, and the good sense to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  .60 pset nights, so I had already worked on the pset for around 6 hours. On ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own ... in the dorms. I think that's probably something that varies dorm-to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  held on to the idea that they wanted to make a difference. They inspired ... I thought it'd be worth it to add my own thoughts into the mix ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  , and to capitalize on, their admission. Now, more than half the students ... , you can go to the library and check out textbooks for free. If, on the ... have made here on the blogs, such as David's Putting Diversity Into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  to yours; your research is standing on the backs of giants ... During election week, among all the chaos, I got the opportunity to ... 'm on Google Scholar and everything! I submitted some of my research to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  the very same Colin who was accepted to MIT on the day I was deferred ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... exhausted. The days leading up to decisions were sickeningly brutal and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about ... . Perfectionism + the urge to get everything done right on the first try. I first ... around on-campus before rushing back to my dorm in the midst of a panic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  put on the blinders. Never try to wrest too much control of your life ... . To negate in improv is to break the flow of absurdity and belief that animates the sketch. When the Roadrunner points out to Wile E Coyote that he

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... impressive model of what we wanted to build. On the day of the event... My ... our materials, we moved on to figuring out the general dimensions we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... last semester to not be about me, the more i was able to do. so in no ... sorority's philanthropy event   tried to share the little things

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  unlawful amount of fun playing on the beach, going to an Israeli concert, and ... , Fiddler on the Roof. If you’ve never seen it, then REMEDY THAT. ;) And while ... early afternoon to see the sights. There are a few attractions to the town

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to ... to the general college applicant. At the same time, though, we aim to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  likely to score an 800 on the math SAT than a 740. But if we take an IMO ... , is "well, so release the data on everything else!" To which I ask: how ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011