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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  pictures can you fit in a blog post?” The answer, it turns out, is a lot! I ... her awesomeness. When I got to MIT, I was determined to carve out time ... origami pleated designs I folded in my freshman year. These pieces only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  in and day out. extremely smart? again, i wouldn’t object, but i ... ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred ... ways (except parenting, which i currently have no interest in). but right

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in ... finish one of my 6.009 labs, so I submitted a confession in mostly cap lock to thank him -I loved cross registering at MassArt twice in sophomore

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• 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…

  

  by Joyce Carol Oates that we read in AP English. When I read it, I ... like two years until I read Everything is Illuminated and found out that ... --getting home! No, really. I was in four different countries in one day! I was all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  getting caught up in something else, so I’m glad I got to see what it was ... Battlebots early to help with another event, I’d led the event in full for ... subteam this coming fall :) I’d encourage any prefrosh interested in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  don’t exist). But in all seriousness out of all of the colleges I ... sitting there like, “lol Ben I haven’t got in yet so I can’t yet get ... , looked it dead in its pale, white, papery face and said, “I will defeat you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  the hacking books MIT puts out, like Nightwork, which I referenced in my ... ones I posted. Also, I got hosed. Junior year turned out to be ... ramble on about, but there are things that I can't/won't put into a public

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... . I’m a senior in college now, meaning I did my recruiting process ... were interested in going D1, but I’ve noticed D3 isn’t as crunched for

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  our row in Symphony Hall. So, I asked the funnylookin guy next to me ... casual conversation, I found out that he's a fourth-year government student ... little awesome. Anyway, I can't wait to head back this year. I hope it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  /Writing Poetry (21W.756), I'm almost as stressed out about my HASS classes as lab ... writing out my thoughts on the poem, I'm able to make connections that I couldn't make just in my head, and I find the poem unusually compelling

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  famous for "thinking out loud" on his corner of the web.) In that moment, I ... /knowledgeable/accomplished; I’d feel compelled to reach out and connect with peers interested in ... school (the one I included in my MIT blogger application). The station

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , last pset, last lecture, etc). I can’t help but feel a bit displaced ... . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  've reached this strange turning point in my life where I want to do things more ... thoughtful person, not in the sense that I have good thoughts, but because I am ... than I once was. I have to maintain the relationships that matter in my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  in the sophtmore year? I'll rephrase your question as, can I get credit ... , cheaper, faster...I miss Anna's now that I'm in ohio and all I have is ... research in high school. I hope, though, that you're doing the research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  Microsoft, working on Surface keyboard (that's all I can say, the rest is ... share? Work is super fun! And I'm trying to figure out… life, aka what I ... 'll figure it out, my dear. * * * Adam H. '15 (majoring in Course 18-C: Math

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  revealing itself in all the methods I had started out trying. I couldn ... case of “I-figured-it-out-and-now-I’ll-drop-hints-so-you-can-figure-it-out ... I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  people I lived really close to (in retrospect) are now spread out so far is ... I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion ... bathroom or living in a 115 sq ft brick oven coffin (Macgregor <3). I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with ... out, is National Reply Date. It had been a pleasure sharing what I know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  changed out of pajamas as quickly as I could, terrified that it would stop ... the stairs and out the door and IT WAS SNOWING!!!! I think the PE ... after I sent them pictures 🥲), but photos can’t capture the amazingness

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  , look ourselves in the mirror and say, 'I'm responsible,"' Jones told her admissions colleagues. "We have to look ourselves in the eye and say, 'Am I an ... of her daughter. "When she was in sixth or seventh grade, I was every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006