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• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  sessions[/annotation] by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT ... .[/annotation] That's why figuring out the best fit for you is so important. Fit can ... beyond in order to qualify for most schools. I’ll give you that. The

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  it's IAP! I don't have classes! I can end my day at 5 pm like I could ... 11 each night, which was annoying since I wanted to hang out with my ... dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs ... this point, but maybe later I can tell you more about Honduras (There ... I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... ridiculous dreams. Like this one dream I had over the summer. I was in Harry Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  Nobody can. We can mobilize and make this happen! Help eradicate the most prevalent and preventable problem in developing areas around the ... 1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life I can consider true friends. There are those people in your life that ... something like “haha that was honestly as hot as MIT will be in December, I am

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc ... : boston/cambridge/mit really does feel like home right now because in my mind that's where i'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  discussed our most memorable experiences in Beijing so far.  I talked about ... dialect of Chinese), but this is what I found out: You're supposed to eat them. They're only "in season" during the summer. You can buy 4 of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell ... - but I guess I was the one handing out the candy. I dressed up as a black ... hadn’t missed out as much as I thought. The setting was different

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  graduating seniors - I'll miss you).  Can't wait to meet 2019s in the fall! ... the iPhone Product Design team, and will be working in Cupertino for the ... ; This, however, does mean a few things: (1) I've dropped out of MIT for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  prepared for the unexpected! Everything that goes wrong...can work out after ... Aye, I'm back with more architecture adventures. I feel like all I ever blog about is architecture stuff - but who am I kidding - it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  flowed beneath the sparkling ice. It does, but I didn't find that out ... until eight, I saw someone running outside in a t-shirt. She looked rather ... the little things that I'm pumped about, in no particular order: I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  applying to MIT this year. In this vein, I thought I'd post some of my old ... rediscovered all of them in my closet. So, here goes. I wrote this first one in ... " average. I will move to Washington, D.C., probably in my early twenties

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... can shake several sticks at. And my favorite software in the world

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  this class did not start out well for me as all I had from high school ... , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... causing chaos in society. Excerpt from Jerusalem by William Blake I turn my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ’t wildlife in Boston; I’ve seen my fair share of creatures, including the ... bus driving through Boston. I’m not kidding- it was early in the morning ... Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, but maybe I’ll save it for later, since I realize

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  failing, and falling back on P/NR. Sometimes I just can’t find the ... take the midterm today in two hours and 19 minutes, as of the moment I’m writing this of course. But I can’t find the motivation to study. The

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  found this album, but I love it. It’s like the 5th album put out by The ... , and the path that Chavo had to walk in his life as a wrestler. I went ... based out of Boston. I know, like, 3 Boston Bands and this is one of them

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  mean time. i'm in the united kingdom for the first time! i just came back ... incredible[/caption] i'm here in Southampton on grad studenting business. it ... i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  arriving in New House, I passed out. Then it was Sunday. I got up at noon ... three pillowcase-less pillows. I can't remember the last time I just sat down and hung out - I am totally wiped. Time always accelerates through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013