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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  I've been working on this one for weeks, but you guys know what the ... here in Kuwait. It is vital for me to receive my admissions decision ... decisions will be made available online for RA '06, but we are working on it

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  Layla, for sending it to me and knowing i would love it ... for college"][/annotation], I'll give you the feeling the movie gave me ... anyone in my life for granted. Similarly, my brain is swimming in all the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to ... , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... shell. I had developed a real confidence in my self for the first time in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  -picking outings that MIT dorms help subsidise. For most people, it’s a great reason ... the delicious dishes that people have cooked up. For Conner 2, my floor ... clear the M does not stand for anything else, contrary to what my floor

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or ... on an intramural basketball team for about 3 semesters now! We play in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  reach a lofty bar that you set for yourself. It’s a challenge.   ... tendencies, and that shiny bar you've set for yourself becomes the standard for ... significantly above-average point, you're so screwed. You’re meat. For whatever

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  . When I got into MIT, visited for CPW, and finally comMITted, the biggest ... , but their MIT -- full of friendship, companions for psets and for ... waiting for me. There was never any question about whether I would apply to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  for my sleep schedule and for my homework schedule, but I cope by ... spent the majority of my time at ZBT for obvious reasons, so it's been so ... image1="89300" image2="89298" image3="89296" /] Spring Break For spring

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  events i attended four years ago cpwacc cpwacc, short for cpw a ... perform for around ten minutes each in high school i watched the ohms sing ... ’m part of the ohms, and we performed for the high schoolers at cpwacc last

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  different media forms for my assignments! Here's everything I've consumed this ... . For this, we were assigned to listen to Hi My Name Is by Eminem, What ... some extra raps for inspiration, particularly looking at female rappers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... magic or not. for instance, at one point the characters discuss how oral ... episode that hit hardest for me was this one: “Most people spend their

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  write a mere sentence for months on the blogs. This makes the 6-month ... in. I barely wrote during the spring, save for my intensive writing ... bettering my wardrobe with an exorbitant amount of MIT merch. If one were, for

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  VSVDbZUakc After realizing I've done a team update for the [annotation ... a good thing…I guess? Hmm, on second thought, and for legal reasons ... could create a video for the incoming class. I remembered him from WISE

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  I've been gone from the blogs for a little while, since this semester ... , on making paradise for CPW; or spring break adventures; or the way that ... no space to breathe—no space to post. And yes, there has been time for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  and the possibility for life beyond Earth. [caption id ... .[/caption] There are four tracks for the major: Geosciences: Geology, Geochemistry ... with slightly lower expectations for the undergrads taking the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  funds for it. It was also super refreshing to be in these games classes ... rejected by Google and I even cried about it for a couple of hours. It hurt ... personality for a longtime. There wasn't anything I could really talk about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... Chinese characters, for readers who prefer those. Rona W. '22 also did reads ... everyone above —  especially Catherine and Alice —  for these translations! I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... tv shows about jobs and work, and so on. for better or worse, our ... i spent approximately zero months feeling grateful for the time i did

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for ... one. I could write a lot about what this meant for me, and maybe I will

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  posting quite often, for a bit – enjoy!"]recently started posting again ... ="Thank you Petey and the rest of the blogfam for keeping me included throughout ... just made me completely incapable of making a single post for so long. I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020