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• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  as to what the other ones were, you can easily find them! When applying to MIT, I knew I really, really had to write some damn good essays because I didn't feel like I had the stats and awards to bolster me up to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  human-written; they’re all machine-generated. I’m not sure if I want to be ... doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I ... . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  Leader. This meant that I helped prepare campus to welcome the ~1,100 incoming students. It was a blast, and so this year, I applied to be an ... captains that organized the games and fun events during Orientation to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my ... to go from general physics to anything astronomy-applied is far to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3 AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  happened: Sometime in November, we got an email sent to the Art Scholars ... , but it said it will involve AI and art! That was enough to sell us, so we both applied! We both got to the phone interview stage. A couple

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  mostly like to talk about MIT as a physical entity. “Look at this cool ... the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  I took this internship to figure out whether or not I wanted to pursue ... ultimately came to the conclusion that I really liked product management and wanted to work on it in the future. I'm writing this post because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  to take a physics league test before zooming off to Metropark station to catch my 10 AM train. A couple days before, I had arranged to travel ... station, and to our surprise and delight, there were 4 other MIT ‘12s there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  mission to bake as many cookies as possible and hand them out to people I ... school backpack, slipping them under the desk to friends during class. So ... ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough ... windowsill. recently, most people i've talked to have been high-strung and uncertain. recently, it has been hard to see the good in the world. recently

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  he likes it that way! If I ever write my autobiography, I’m going to ... moved to South Carolina (where they were from originally) and I left my community of friends behind. I plan on going back to Panama this year. We are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get ... that this may be more challenging for some students due to their ... thought should be able to provide a letter, however they are not able to do
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and that one’s foldable enough to take on the go, I cried silently. I need

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ever fall into the Charles River that borders MIT campus, you can swim to one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to ... ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them ... what to expect. While the information I learned was useful, it couldn ... to the humanities, but I’ve quickly learned that this just isn’t true

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... ; specifically what comes to mind is the Schachter-Singer theory, where the ... identify them. It feels a lot like trying to untangle jewelry; I try to undo

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023