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• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  for blogging, for some reason, I usually just end up having literary ... will inevitably follow, from denial - searching for a clipboard log - to ... more refined word choice, subtle humor, and poignant advice. For it was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I've heard that Bartok Concerto for Orchestra is absolutely awesome - I haven ... MIT? I'm a pretty avid classical violinist with a passion for chamber

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  for a little while and say hi. Unfortunately, as the name implies, no ... ...well...anyone else parties. In other news, Dave thanked me for answering his question, saying, "Thanks for the info; although it may seem strange to care about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  College Confidential thread about the pressure to load up on AP classes ... # of AP's for admitted kids was 5 or 6 (that's total for all 4 years of ... brought nothing else to the table. And that's not who we're looking for at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , the glorious time of year when classes aren't as big of a deal for most

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  cheesy ice breaker which somehow takes up the remaining 40 minutes of the class period. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Six times for six classes, for (what ... has their own subjective view of what boring is. For instance, some find

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  game, and then another, and I even ended up visiting Vancouver for a ... blog post of that nature. Frankly, I've been overdue for such a post, both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  but myself for ending up like this. I am angry, mother, and you cannot ... holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here ... ’t have the money for another grad student,” or if they secretly think I don

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  Network—which stands for Small-Town and Rural Students—and wondered, "Am I ... place(s) in which you’ve grown up—reading up on how a place has developed ... a great starting point for us (and for you) to understand the size of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  -MIT-student fashion, I forgot to respond.  For context, I’m chomps - a foodie and '25 ... the T for all my cafe hops, so my location references are in relation to MBTA stations. If you’re looking for a cafe with delicious food… This is

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  approaching, so to procrastinate for them, I’m going to talk about my spring ... class is taught by the legend Gilbert Strang, whom you may know for his 18 ... class before—the homework for each class is to do readings

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  on some stupid quest for chicken nuggets and end up in some apocalyptic ... Boston. The closest one is in a town called Dedham, MA. My craving for Chick Fil A had built up to the point where, when I awoke on that fateful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  , then at least for a while. i watched lady bird (excellent and emotional ... party. i took my last final exam (6.006, intro to algorithms). i packed up ... my thesis. content warning for the following paragraph, for mentions of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... I figured I would suck it up and power through for the purpose of a ... take me. A cool artsy Course 4, perhaps? Not really up for all

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  ice cream maker. As for what I’m up to right now: I am packing up that ... pint of ice cream, and then went up to the reading room to study for the ... also got Facebook accounts for the first time. OK, enough about pre-2007

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  programs (and since then, the deadlines for the three summer programs that ... /USA Mathcamp!, Colby College, Maine I visited MIT for my very first time ... right now - class of '10). Alright, I'm sorry! (for this being totally

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  up so much room for activities. You do not engage in activities. You ... ’re hyped up on the excedrin you took for your massive headache. Your value ... Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  before I opened up my decision, and for once, things actually went as I ... write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this a bit later. I was scheduling a different blog for today, but then I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  , they just confirmed tickets to come up here for another weekend around ... back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has been three months-ish since I got on campus over the summer. For just

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  this morning, but check out what the Boston Globe had for its weather forecast for the long weekend: A sun-moon wearing shades? Now that is ... ! As usual, we will primarily be looking for incoming freshman; however

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011