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• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  walking back to our apartment from our friend Jess’s dinner party. Trees ... to grab our ankles without warning.  Naturally, Penny thought it would be a brilliant idea to make up some ghost stories to pass time. Here

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  as to what the other ones were, you can easily find them! When applying to MIT, I knew I really, really had to write some damn good essays because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  human-written; they’re all machine-generated. I’m not sure if I want to be ... doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my ... to go from general physics to anything astronomy-applied is far to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3 AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  happened: Sometime in November, we got an email sent to the Art Scholars ... , but it said it will involve AI and art! That was enough to sell us, so we both applied! We both got to the phone interview stage. A couple

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool ... the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get ... that this may be more challenging for some students due to their ... thought should be able to provide a letter, however they are not able to do
• Blog / Uncategorized

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and that one’s foldable enough to take on the go, I cried silently. I need

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to ... ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn ... to the humanities, but I’ve quickly learned that this just isn’t true

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  myself to different perspectives and value systems was incredibly ... who has been raised to mythical proportions. We also dipped into the ... of the Fae was used to grieve loved ones, ie a mother that died in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  Have you ever wanted to be a performer but can’t sing or dance? Why ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn ... the LSC intro before Jojo Rabbit gave me the urge to become a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... style, ranging from "Hesitation" to "Tactile" to "Spoonerisms". We ... assigned to narrate a short story of our own, in both our favorite and least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the Amtrak train, and more recently a day trip to Providence, RI also via

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... 't that bad. That was one of my last reservations about committing to MIT ... of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this has nothing to do with the November Rule). I finally have time to actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... wonderful group of people. And now you, like us, get to laugh, cry, and lose ... welcome to: Alice L. '24 of California, who definitely has not drunk cell

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021