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• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I ... . And I don't know why it took until coming here to realize that I'm my own person and that I have to take care of myself and I have to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  to make them for last year, so I decided to show you mine for this year ... you really dropped the ball". So, here's to accountability! Get Fit gym four times a week I started going to the gym when I came to MIT and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the letters into roots and x-fixes"]ad and visum[/annotation](from videre, "to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... e-mailed her too, as they did to every parent of a Senior House ... life on this earth, which I think serves to illustrate that this has

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  Lydia K. '14 challenged us bloggers to write about our days, inspired ... what has happened or is on the schedule to happen today. My day started at 6am. My cat decided that sleeping next to me was boring and she

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to ... program I am applying to is called “Cities in the 21st Century”, which looks

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this commentary is perhaps more relevant to those readers who have followed on the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger application, under the question "why do you want to be a blogger": i want to be a blogger to write for tenth grade me. i want to show him, the kid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear ... enough to be back on campus it immediately feels like home, and I remember ... interviewing applicants. It’s a unique and amazing way to stay connected to MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxiVYEjp0Ww&ab_channel=SaltTech We hope you are happy! Take some time to celebrate with those who are important to you; we'll have more important, cylindrical information for you

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over ... // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now ... production, the music video for ‘I Can See You,’ everything // screamed to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were supposed to just know where the lounge for our newly declared majors was, and like we were supposed to know how to advise actual first years on where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  : there are four pads on the ground, each corresponding to an arrow ... song begins, arrows begin moving from the bottom of the screen to the top, and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue these experiences with the overbearing hand of hindsight, to claim that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKMxRBYQs5k Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, remember to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased ... ", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it!

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be beautiful. There were moments I wished to be desirable, and I suppose that is adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!!! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.