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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment.  There is something strange about writing for the public. You are giving up ... together and sometimes, I am stuck with the same feeling for months, never

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  movement in that direction. you tell yourself, if i plan for the cart to move ... yourself, if i push in a direction that looks appealing i will surely end up ... you’d like to, and you end up having to correct your course constantly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  met up at 7pm at a place called Dear Annie, located just off the Red ... Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think ... comfortable together). We got up from our seats to check out the menu, which was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out ... it. i mean, sure, i went to acting school for four years, but i ... doing improv was a lot of fun, so i tried auditioning for a few groups

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  riding a bike. October 09-10 (H-Town) I was in Houston for a conference ... Beantown)) One of my resolutions for this semester is to spend more time ... was MIT's Family Weekend; my parents drove up from Philadelphia to visit

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• 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 / 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 / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  started typing up a draft for this post on my phone (which was originally ... , at 8pm you return to the Media Lab to finish up some notes and plan for ... would say, take time for yourself, because otherwise it's hard to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  AGAIN FOR THIS UPCOMING SATURDAY WITH SOME MORE ... we did! The four of us mentally claimed our tickets for Waitress ... some authority told everyone in line that there was no point to wait for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to remember how I was feeling last year when the deadline was coming up…and then ... started at MIT, I’ve had a bunch of folks ask me for application advice

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  before going to sleep; I'm also planning to sign up for a reading-based IAP ... up in science. They tell me that they're equally surprised I attend a ... importance to people, but for me, I've always used it as a way to ground myself

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  people showed up for this political statistician than for a movie star a ... , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... for Nate Silver; it was a public victory for scientific rationalism in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost ... 'd be set for the rest of my life. The day before I left, we picked blackberries with my grandpa and built a tipi of sticks just the size for a four

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural ... roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk-up ... pathos for the metaphoric childhood of a scientific field. Yet, as soon as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  birds called zebra finches, which are known for their ability to sing ... , mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the summer in order to stay on campus. However, the opportunity arose for me to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Maina asked:: I sat for SAT 1 and I messed up in one section in Critical ... freshman year, the freshman class council will email the class, asking for ... that in a country like Pakistan there isn't much opportunities for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  advisor several times a semester; advising seminars (for credit), which ... are currently four options for learning communities: Terrascope ... about DesignPlus, or D+ for short! As the name suggests, it’s oriented

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6.s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025