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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  + event at Head of the Charles. I was very happy, and so were my teammates ... happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven ... personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  yet, at a 65% grade average in the class, I was at serious risk of ... at the last two months of material. Welp. Many times in high school ... legitimately scared by how close the deadline was (usually a matter of hours), at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  radio debut (there will be more of me on air next year at MIT, just a ... This past weekend was the legendary Campus Preview Weekend at MIT and ... photo of me outside of 77 Mass Ave. (So this is where my application

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... brighter than the background, or even closer than the black circles. of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should ... sufficiently show who you are. I hope this is helpful and answers lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  was chosen by all the players). I mentioned at the start of this post ... two types of players I couldn't understand at all: those who donated all ... of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  greeted us at the front of the lecture hall: Professor Buchwald dressed ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  prepare a poster for the poster session at the end of the summer, but I didn ... song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  fort I spent a fair amount of the rest of REX at, reopened. I filled out ... dorm you'd prefer living in at the end of REX. Also commonly used as a ... ’ve done at MIT so far (in terms of nonacademic work of course). I’ve learned

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  of [annotation note="not the final presentation, though. That had at ... my days at MIT working through a haze of sleep deprivation and pain ... this at all, but this fall I was in 2.009 [link]. We sent that project

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  Boston Logan. My arrival at Logan was welcomed with a myriad of texts from ... Robert and Grace and was amazed at all the opportunities and the amount of ... Sims 3 until the next flight at 8:45 a.m. Sims 3 or no Sims 3, sitting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  , back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this ... were immediately met by the issue of Walker closing at 10 pm on the ... either, so we looked at the Saturday of that weekend, but it was fully

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  at 10 am. I spend the rest of my time getting ready, reading my emails ... hour of 7 pm. I usually become aware of this fact at 6:30, so I speedrun ... back. I look at the signs and posters on the wall and admire models of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  remote for Covid and I instead got to look at pictures of ceramics), but I ... the balance between being an artist and a student at an “Institute of ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  hope the Class of 2022 can have a Ring Delivery to celebrate at some ... first few weeks of the second semester, I went there at least three times ... remember the three of us scoffing at the idea of schools closing and virtual

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who ... authentic(!) lectures."]Campus Preview Weekend,[/annotation] some of us ... person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  middle-of-nowhere suburbia, at 3am. Power lines and a small rickety corner ... of family and close friends) to take a look at my essays, taking care ... that I had genuinely gotten the essence of myself across. At 10:55, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  combat this lack-of-answers in Dali's content (at least, at first glances ... a vast extent of art and culture to be "known" at the museum, even ... Utah to Virginia, but there was no way I could go four years without at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged ... and liked at CPW, but also the people I hadn't met yet, whose pictures

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023