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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  coming so quickly. we've been planning for rush since the spring, of course, but right now it feels so close. east campus always builds things in the ... build lead involves more than that oops. thank goodness the other build

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... the people with more nuance and who could write better than I ever could ... time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the earliest ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  Between the fall and spring semesters at MIT there is a period spanning the month of January called the Independent Activities Period, or ... without knowing what day of the week it is, you can spend all your time

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome ... should care because the situation fucking sucks. And I should care, because when the police bring conflict into peaceful protests, I should be angry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  some frequent readers of the blogs might know, I have a UROP at the Media ... the Admissions blogs and collaborated on a very official and detailed blog post about the project launch. You can check it out on Medium as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud ... about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had ... offer. It was with me the first time I went abroad and has been to as many

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next: residential system), inspired by the recent comMITment of the Class of 2022—WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head ... friends who all told me that over the summer they’d been going through

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... application, with 5 short-answer essay questions (I've blogged about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... the ones we do for Rush. FSILG's (Fraternities, Sororities, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head, I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity ... classes have already assigned the final pset of the year. Post ... which nobody was very attentive, I’m sure), and, at the appointed time

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  college, you can write whatever the heck you want." -The same wise person (READ: PLEASE DO NOT ACTUALLY WRITE LIKE THIS) Q1. Describe the world you ... , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  generated tweets inflected by the voice of various academics, journalists, and ... the source texts, they are probabilistically written in ways that the 'actual' authors never would. The practical result is that you get tweets

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions ... counselors are calling flabbergasted that the best students of their careers ... out there. Many of the questions that we're getting are totally

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  his name, but in my mind, he was already The Hispanic Guy Who Speaks ... Chinese... Kristina and I were teammates on the MIT Sport Taekwondo team ... . The next time I took a Chinese class would be at MIT - and I ended up

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  Growing up, the thing that my parents were the most strict about wasn ... to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn ... . But come to think of it, the only thing lamer* than my parents' rule

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012