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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  ’s culture a lot, and would go to school with or seek out other kids like them ... speak and write Chinese, but I was afraid I didn’t write or speak very ... our lives are sometimes hard, full of strange contradictions and being

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  school and how the Lord was working on our campuses. I played on the ... the Cambridge and Boston area, and most are either a walk or train ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  admits spend a weekend at MIT learning about our culture and getting ... informational. We give you our opinion, we say what's on our mind, and you take ... this is upheld through the nature and culture of our school. It is our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  . But it was very adorable. Then, I will run, jog, walk, and/or hobble 26 ... classes without studying much, and when I did poorly on certain tests or ... only went a half-mile or so before I turned around and came back. It was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  . Just kidding, bacteria don’t have mustaches and hats (or do they). I am ... learned in class and on the range was about working with our emotions and our instincts and working with our breath. In rifle this IAP, I learned

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  and decided to make pakaprow for the MANY people that ate our daily ... ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... smoke fills the room and the cook always ends up coughing and crying

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  simply be made in only dark, or light. There would only be black and white ... color, and we all visually see it more or less the same (all right, there ... provocative or, yes, offensive?” And the Yale chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned ... 's video camera recording, and tried our best to secure it without blocking

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  from Colorado, or back to when one of our family friends visited and saw ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... whole month of high school as easily as middle or elementary) and returned

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  , and I hope to see you at CPW or around campus sometime. Please say hi ... home (I have plenty of friends who were deferred and got in), or maybe ... Frank video about dealing with rejection. He has a very soothing voice and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  with on-sites tend to miss about two or three days of school, and ... . Some people participate in the MISTI program and work or research abroad over the summer. Some people work on personal projects or startups. And

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at ... ended up posting three or four tremendously thoughtful blogs a day, and ... decentralized to friends and peers. And, frankly, our bloggers post a lot more to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  your hometown, or even on our campus has zero impact on your admissions ... other universities to broaden our reach and provide opportunities to more ... [annotation note="Or freeway or expressway or interstate or autobahn or whatever

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  let awkwardness be a barrier to being aware or being informed, for our ... and others: Not everyone who has a romantic or sexual interest in you ... different from what they wanted or expected, on both a physical and emotional

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  and I calculated what it'd take to build a raft to ride our couch down ... the MIT bubble. People flock to San Francisco or stay in Cambridge and ... Ah, 2014, a year full of bumps, slumps, trips, and ... cycles? When

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  determinative or merely descriptive? And so forth. But let's back away from the ... 's happening here is a fundamental confusion between our admissions process and ... living thing and its fossil. A fossil isn't the plant or animal itself: it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  ?" We agonized and fantasized over getting The Big Envelope (or in Colin's case, The Tube) until both we and the pterodactyls in our stomachs were ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  and cheaply – look for your chances to volunteer, study, or intern ... over winter or summer break, rent a car with friends, and see what’s out ... , celebrations, and sometimes songs. They are also a natural point to look back and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks ... -hunt-worthy head-scratchingly-fiddicult bug in our credit card readers. And there ... than the amount of money we had in our bank account (and I wasn't eating

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  to Killian Court where our friends and families waited for us. Photo ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009