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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  in from all corners of the world and sharing the many adventures post ... graduating from Course 20 in 2013, I ran an educational media outreach program in MIT Open Learning for a few years (working with Ceri!) while doing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  black out— there is nothing else in the world I can do I am barely ...   I have more than 100 blog ideas saved in a nifty spreadsheet and ... of ideas   in another life, I could have been a painter (I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  /driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked ... electronics at decision release time and—in fact—forget about it until later ... button.[/annotation] In order to help logistically prepare yourself, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in ... in the admissions office to craft questions and prompts that elicit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/16/23, at 12:16 PM ET Your early action decisions, wrapped

  

  [annotation note="bloggers: i'm looking at your spotify wrapped and taking in ... , [annotation note='I suggest you go practice logging in there now, so that you ... password, just go to apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... two high school boyfriends are both currently in PhD programs (pure math ... college textbook—and read it cover-to-cover. In seventh grade, he begged and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  been someone that has traveled in a pack. In high school, I had a group ... inevitably fell out and started on our different paths. In my freshman year of ... thought. These are the lifelong friendships they talk about in the movies

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

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... this! Classes CMS.701 Current Debates in Media taught by Ed Schiappa Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th ... the Registrar in consultation with the Chair of the Faculty[…] — Day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  ’ve appeared had she made a different decision somewhere in her life. In one ... -carpet photoshoots and limousine rides. In another universe, she is a sign-spinner on a street corner. In other universes, she’s a teppanyaki chef, a rock on a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it ... I go outside and trudge through snow or suffer in freezing cold, when ... wrong was when I woke up and saw light streaming in from my window

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... capabilities in creative ways that i’d for the most part never considered before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration ... meant putting down whatever mess going on in my head into words and making ... year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I ... seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I like and major in whatever I ... asked me during CPW back in 2019. “21E,” I said, thinking that every

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Know that I'm with you The only way that I can be Until you're in my ... raised me. As my mom worked long hours in a city three hours away, a lot of my middle school and high school life was getting picked up in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post.) If we were in the same room, I would tell you that I could teach you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  decision-conscious, whether that be congratulating those who got in or ... time and sometimes there are not enough words in the world to comfort rejection or the long waiting period in between. But do know that you are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  In my freshman year of high school, my favorite teacher that year had a quote that sat right above his whiteboard, visible at every place in ... ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  academic opportunities for students in each school and because if it weren ... home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... hours each week in office hours helping students get familiar with the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  virtual vigil. As the announcement for the vigil read: We gather in the wake ... , faculty and staff will lead us in prayer and reflection. The speakers at the vigil included, in order: Institute Community and Equity Officer John

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020