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• 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…

  

  stating what you read in the textbook. For example, often bio exams ... freshmen are taught to memorize phylum names and label parts of a plant for ... ." ---- Without further ado, here are the "finalists" for the photo contest from, uh

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  for the rest of the day in the spirit of productivity. If you know me ... personal schedule for myself and started working on my first task.  Roughly ... from my parents alerting me that the restaurant was busy. For some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  the Institute"]I3 videos[/annotation] for certain dorms, you know that ... at the Institute. art completely covers the walls of East Campus, for ... buildings left, and East Campus is going offline for renovation at the end of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  shotgun house in the Bywater, soaking up the sunshine and warm wet air before I fly back to Cambridge tomorrow morning. I’m on my own for now; my cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  crossovers in socal MIT Students Visit Caltech and UCLA

  

  we build a fort for the East Side Party, and the famous rollercoaster ... architect of Blacker believed in gremlins who in lore cannot go up stairs and ... Ricketts House (another one of Caltech’s South Houses) for their open mic

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 6, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  them in to make searching for the actual classes easier if anyone wants ... 1, showing us more ways to build roads for really small things and ... I learned a lot from, but up goer five was not having it with so many

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high ... qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards (which are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  thinking about writing a blog post about advice for high school seniors but I ... I approached the prompts and my writing will be useful fodder for your essays. For the tl;dr, scroll to the bottom to get my general takeaways

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area ... decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  . Inspired by the wildly popular TED talks, the “TIM” in TIMtalks stands for ... motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder ... positively impact our students. That was one of those ‘ah-hah!!!’ moments for

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  Short Story from Last Summer

  

  summer air. For a while, the heat is relentless and then, all at once, it ... , and for a little while, the river. When I reach home, the heat comes ... all we do is laugh. I zip my phone up in one of the pockets in my

  • by Sara N. '28
  • June 11, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Crusty White Dogs Appreciation Post 💕 🐕 💕 🐕💕

  

  The other day, I was in a meeting for Cru Worship team, and the ... as a pet. I thought for like ten seconds and decided: Crusty White Dog ... 't cool enough. How would my crusty white dog stack up against Mufasa and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  without its teams, and so, the tangled maze of Simmons Hall floors split up ... big plastic horn thing we have for some reason. Those who came to ... the rink were GRAs and friends cheering for whichever team they owed

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  as anticipated. I got some climbing shoes, chalked up my hands ... !! Ever the perfectionist, I resolved to complete every route for the base ... 're going to discourage yourself from reaching for that next step. When you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... looking for, and b) even if they understand what we are looking for, most ... partially up to applicants to help us to identify the true trail blazers. As I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere ... you end up next. In literary practice, bookends are matching scenes at ... 's charge for the graduates, the receipt of the diploma—these are pomp. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  't really identify. so here is a guide, for those lost. this emotion is ... disapproval from others. fear was developed for survival and may trigger strong ... processing. it can be thought of as many thoughts fighting each other for

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  ...and...well...here’s the announcement blog you’ve been waiting for? kellen: Ella! Jenny! I've brought you both here today because i need to announce a decision date for ... and a bunch of youtubers made up these storylines that they act out

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  want, just what I've got And if we sit and count it up, it's really not a ... feel okay about everything. for example, i'm usually really self ... . things are okay. things have been okay for a while now. i go to bed and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to ... sometimes i stare at my planner and the way it stretches on for another month ... balking halfway, who can actually focus for long periods of time, who eats

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021