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• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One ... -provoking conference. Thursday through Sunday, I was in St. Louis for the annual ... some people here even major in fields like Political Science, Music

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  ?Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it's greatBut while in this world I think I'll take my whiskey neatMy coffee ... grapeIf you can sit in a barrel, maybe I'll waitUntil that day I'd rather

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  [/annotation] in Building 45 at 11 am. Building 45 has a beautiful glass exterior ... later and later. I wake up just in time to catch breakfast, which closes ... through denial, bargaining, anger, and depression until I have accepted in

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

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  , California, who reportedly has the same music taste as everyone in LA, wants to ... photojournalist who has always wanted to live in a city and finally treated himself ... you'll make in the future!

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  's superhero, where they needed an underdog in someone like Superman, but now he ... story follows him learning how to use his power in a low stakes opening ... see in the world and make every second count."]Dennis Sykes

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... some naturey places in the area, like Middlesex Fells and Walden Pond ... Arts at MIT) in Fall 2020, but I didn't have any more blocks to carve

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  ,79163,79162,79161" caption="Here they are, in the flesh! Or in the avatar, anyway" /] Please ... fizzy green liquids, owner of a popular LinkedIn meme account, and wizard

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  walking from the west side of campus, so with me living in the east side, we ... you mean?" "Well," he said, "in college, I always thought of hours and ... in six weeks. On Wednesday I had an appointment with my therapist. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  bask in exhausted we-did-it glory the night of, when a thing is not ... ’ll be happy in the moments where I feel like I’ve learned something. If I ... for a time in my life when my novel would have space to breathe. In

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  , and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push ... of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  in. At the same time, this new independence has been exhilarating. I ... asked ourselves at some point in our MIT adventure so far.  And I assure ... learn and grow and live. What am I going to major in? Is a minor

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  .  We don’t have time right now to write something too substantial, so in attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no ... friend’s, who left the theater in a trance, repeatedly saying “what the f

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  MIT sponsors an annual trip to an apple orchard in Stow, MA for undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today ... 're triploid."]Mutsu[/annotation] thrown in there. I like a tart apple. They had

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  's choice of funding sources has been in the spotlight recently. But they didn ... bedtimes aren't as early as mine). They planned a hack, and in my opinion, it was amazing -- apt, perfectly-timed, and well executed. In fact

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  adventure here at MIT.  Looking back at it all now, a lot has happened in the ... naps in the grass. Go on spontaneous road trips. Stroll through city ... lonely are two different things. It's ok to spend all Saturday in your room

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  really likes Taylor Swift, it felt very "So here I am in my new apartment in a big city, they just dropped me off")) I had no clue what I was ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkbdUPKD8ek"]revelation;[/annotation]I came in stressed out to all hell about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... because I like riding in cars. Sophomore year I got a Zipcar membership ... 's cough drops, irregular jelly beans, and all sorts of other things in no

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  ! And then she sent this to the blogger group chat, and our nicknames in ... mistake! We are in fact identical twins. Over winter break we ordered ... zygosity of same-sex twins based on the number of placentas, is in the right

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  .0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior ... hold everybody in the admissions office to that vague decade-old promise ... in extremely unfair practices to sway her to the engineering side

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I ... alas, for whatever reason, the cash only soda machine in building 66 didn ... Thursday night, in lieu of prepping for the Career Fair, a group of friends

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017