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• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  steps wide. In the throes of the pandemic, I spent every day inside my ... days by the number of applications read during the Early Action cycle, and by how many cups of coffee I could consume until it was

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... , which includes our literal hunger, to survive. But precisely because of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  In my junior year of high school, I started taking single ... couldn't be the case. I just had no sense of what college-level maths ... questions was frankly a bit of a shock. And don't get me wrong, calculus is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As I spent much of my time around first years, I found myself giving copious amounts of unsolicited advice. Even if [annotation note='😅 ahahaha

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  creation, discussion, and appreciation of fashion. Since its launch in 2018 ... variety of topics. Usually, the release of each issue has been marked by a ... . The Gala was the first Infinite event of this scale, featuring an art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  Prologue “Guess what, gang?” Fred Harris – the director of the MIT ... famous Teatro Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. [caption id ... would be a one-time event because of the sheer scale and effort of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  ? KN6OQK” “i wann chimken” “what do they have? KC1RQI” “rice? soop of ... quarantine. It started with a regular Wikipedia rabbit hole, but out of extreme ... combination of all three. They told me that radio was slowly dying out

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  tw: slight nsfw language and talk of objectification and ... of three girls I hung out with a lot and I felt like I understood them ... inevitably fell out and started on our different paths. In my freshman year of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  skipping past uneventful scenes or zoning out for large portions of concerts ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like, then read the plot summary for every subsequent episode, take note of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  are other messages too, of course. You should be hipper. You should be ... more powerful.” one of his implications is that if you have an ambition ... attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  '."]Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science[/annotation]offers a 12-to-18 month Master’s of Engineering, only available to MIT EECS ... where about a third of undergrads are EECS majors, it’s a popular option

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of over one billion dollars. this says very little about the internals of the company - there are many examples of unicorns with almost zero

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of living in a building with hundreds of other people. finding another dorm

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  the first long weekend, where professors assigned the same amount of ... textually accurate, they actually stole three days of break from us, but it was still a four-day weekend."]extra[/annotation] two days of break. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... decision making process that revolved around this mess was probably one of the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  At the beginning of this semester, we were really unsure of what ... shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the ... process in and of itself) to continue learning computer graphics topics that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  fact that it’s possible, that you didn’t need a company and dozens of weeks, that a couple of undergrads working together could cobble one up. This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  While I’m sure some of you have a good sense of what I do as an ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... their colleagues, discussing anecdotes of their families, children, or ... invisible gravity surrounding the way people treat you--a kind of feeling you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  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 ... of sugar. I was reminded of the days when Halloween meant spooky

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014