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• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... test, and all the math is high school math (actually, that's sort of bad, since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  freshman here at MIT now, although I have no way of proving that. The irony ... terms of competitive college admissions and how we (meaning all colleges ... down a notch - otherwise the lives of high school students are destined

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder ... flurry of confetti at any given moment. Gosh, this is so cheesy I could ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  campus for the first time. The novelty of that comes in waves. I love ... trend of a given math class introducing a concept, like parametric ... 've memorized the musical and [annotation note="and absorbed about 60% of it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three ... extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially ... interesting, but I feel a little bad about counting 14.03 as one of my eight

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious ... 're familiar with another visit, and you've decided to get the worst out of the ... good idea. the broth is slightly clear and has a coat of oil on top. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead ... prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Hello everyone! The following was written by a couple friends of ... friend and as a friend of other ROTC members. Something interesting I realized at the end of fall semester was that actually, all the ROTC members

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... over time. I said I wasn't ambitious, anymore, that I had let go of that in favor of sticking with science, which, for me, was an accessible and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context of the overall applicant pool. That's why chances-related questions are simply impossible to answer outside of selection committee. To everyone who

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation note="east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings are"]Main Campus[/annotation], I spend a lot of time walking. But “a lot

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... progression. One day, the robot may score a lot of points. The next day, the ... small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  these women had no obvious dealbreakers that I knew of, so I asked him why he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It's like, they were inputted into the neural network of my brain and the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  I'm taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie ... in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words -- descriptions and dialogue that can enhance our understanding of the world and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... still, he currently faces a decision of his own. He’s a high school senior ... you are making an agonizing decision of your own, too. Several weeks

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  Hello! I have some new pandemic-flavored poems published as part of ... poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a ... obviously a huge step for Indians in Hollywood, but...yeah, it has a lot of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020