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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... then she walked with me to 6-120, where a Physics class was in progress. I went in and pretended to be a student, which was easy given the 100

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  privileges is a sense of duty, a mandate to do good in the world, one which I ... ’s a way to balance solving your 'little hunger' with leaving a door open ... , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... modest reduction in room size, every 6 people in the dorm get a full ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  their workshop. I think I’ll get a chance to go back next week and explore a little more - but in the mean time, just thought I’d share these ... ’ve corresponded back and forth with a number of the student leaders in these groups

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  Steve Harvey. We were blessed to be watching a stream in which the ... , inviting: there are four different ways to produce light in her room. a ripe ... themselves to me as Joon#). It’s refreshing to be in a foreign area and the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  cost you a bundle to get to or from there. So don't think "Ooh, la la la ... tomorrow night I'm leaving work a little early so that we can get over to ... "), but once you listen to it, you're going to want a candy bar so bad that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  a little time in your discipline (either music, creative writing ... , the last three emotional people in a world of apathy, who decide to use ... filming in just one hour with no editing, but that's not to say it wasn't a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the ... book in too long. I miss that. During summer, I spent a week going to ... with the group. The only thing is, in a marathon this big and open to a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in ... yours -- "You have grit - the single most important factor to succeed in ... me that I wasn't going to get it, but I tried anyway in large part

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... watching your words form impersonally in front of you, in a pre-rendered font ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  20 hours a week. To be clear, letting your hardware decide whether to ... classes too. I want to learn as much as I can in as little a time frame as ... able to several personal projects in the time I would be taking a class

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... fewer applicants this year - fully intending to use the waitlist in order to meet our target class size. With that figure in mind, I was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my ... August, meaning that, in just two short weeks, I will be back to campus for ... , or sit in a park and read, looking up on occasion to observe the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  wore all the time in high school, and a dress with a cut similar to one I ... when it is in fact only mid-range cheap.  I get to my room. I’m allergic ... stop sneezing. I lived in a space I was allergic to once before, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and ... -lopez alt Where are you reading? I only read at home, in my room, next to a ... desk setup in a home office that I NEVER use. I seem to always gravitate

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  : Blog/writing stuff Provide a link to your "portfolio." This will be ... have a current blog, please send a link to it. If your blog is locked ... . Short Answer Essays Short answer #1 - In a paragraph or two, describe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  New York short, which was a huge bummer. But I wanted time to rest, and went back to campus earlier than expected. Not a single soul was in sight ... November, and I didn't get a chance to check out their office when I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  ’s nothing than puts me in a worse mood than getting out of bed. What's your ... respite from a very busy IAP (which I'll hopefully get to blogging about ... tell   us about how something in your life is like that scene. There’s a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... from Google, AQR, and MDT in there too. And a bunch of other big name ... major company in what you're interested in doing will be there to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... ).[/caption] The background is that in medieval England, every time a contract was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019