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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If ... alone here :) ) Before I had friends, I had books. For those of you who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful ... of their assignments. I'll be taking a gap year this year, so I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... different type of work this semester--the work of being present and focused, of using my body and my voice, of taking care of myself--things i am

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That ... feels an odd mix of distant and weirdly close. Like the first time your ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... of studying in the US would be like, but we spoke in the offhanded ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major ... was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you have plenty of hard drive space, so you have no excuse. 22. Take some

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel it's one of MIT's most interesting - and yet also most understated

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  floor of building 3 with a graduate student and we were both working furiously. I had a deadline at 5 pm for my Economics of Health class essay, so everything else happening around me was kind of a blur. Then I heard two loud

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) for a while, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... proceeds throughout the month of February. The pandemic looms larger in the subconscious of campus, but it is still Someone Else's Problem. We go through all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  ..." "You felt seen." "Yeah." Imagine a fish out of water. When I was growing ... broad set of characteristics that set me aside from the other students. I ... of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  I'll give you snippets of three actual conversations first. I. I was chatting with this guy at one of my med school interviews - HIM ... ..." YOU: "Uh, aren't you a premed too?" HIM: "Yeah, but I'm not one of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... the site of the MIT Admissions visitor center. As the admissions office

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  , except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look ... time; one where you try new things and expand your sense of what is possible; one where the future still stretches out ahead of you, opaque

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• 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 ... state of your paper. 3) you get a week to submit a rebuttal to address ... claims. 4) you get a final decision of accept or reject

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012