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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... know the lyrics of Rock Lobster by heart? This is a fact I made up, but ... struggle of wanting to produce more work. 37. Cueshé – Ulan From Rain by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  Ahhhh. Wednesday. Veteran's Day. A day FREE of classes. A one ... the fourth episode of My Girl (one of the best asian dramas out there, w ... lowering carbon levels in the atmosphere with carbon sequestration and by

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  ;skip_registered_account_check=true In 2022, Snoop Dogg changed the course of human history by releasing his song "Affirmations". Today, we honor him by calculating every ... repeating the affirmations does kind of help. I've had many a night where I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  ; I've been advised by Ben that pictures of my shirtless boyfriend in ... host realized that I was very scared of being in the city by myself and ... which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  , etc). stories are assigned points by the team as an indicator of how ... the door by 9:45. 10:00 AM arrive at work. my 'commute' is a foggy, yet ... 've used a lot of software-engineering-specific terms in this blog post

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  stand by today. or, for another example, i spent the first twenty years of ... my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... his parents and therefore kills his father and marries his mother by

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in the subsequent month, and by the end of September I got a ‘pretty good ... ’t swim there RIP) and I had this image of me lounging by the California

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  backpack. Made worse by the fact that I dropped five pounds from that bag ... .) (Or, actually, since last week, when a friend of mine from Tufts said I ... , burdened as they may be by a brobdingnagian backpack. See, sometimes, what

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of ... been the goal of it all, really. I joined a sorority because the prospect of having to explore and understand this new, complicated facet to my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  those are all awesome. This concerns saving money and taking advantage of the perks of tuition, because there's actually a lot covered by that ... 'd fill you in on some of MIT's not-so-well-known secrets. No, this isn

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  basement, and there were six of them side-by-side. i'd make some sort of ... part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  , written, and produced by a childhood friend of my dad's. The title is under ... getting escorted off by a regiment of N51 masked men in green spaceship ... Gregor, and there was an official Course XIX (Meteorology - but of course, an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  single list of coordinates by connecting them with lines: I also wanted ... advisor exclaimed as he looked over my registration at the start of the ... reach the bottom of the screen. I chose Guitar Hero for this project

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  -five or thirty people. By the way, all of these observations are made with ... other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... of using my entire skill set instead of choosing between STEM and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  selection of artwork, including pieces by well-established artists such as ... free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... blogger; this post is an introduction. I’m coming off the levity of the best

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  post up by tonight, and though i just started writing this post i ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i ... nature of writing in the admissions blogs. it's been two years, so the feelings feel more distant day-by-day, but i faintly remember how painful it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  't have nearly as many hugs, spontaneous bursts of song, or sunbutter ... believed you if you had told me that in one week, a single group of college ... the overwhelming satisfaction of playing Capture the Flag, dancing with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... building to connect the major cities of Sichuan, but I couldn't have been

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009