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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  : Where can I start and how do I know? I've tried my hand in media studies ... creation and lead the team in very cool directions. But I don't know how? Or ... prince of Wales. I devoured the book in two days, and after I finished, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  decisions I've made over the past few weeks across all sorts of areas in my life. In [annotation note='i don’t wanna order this by order of ... decisions and let the little things in life pass you by. how would one even

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote ... far, I've deep cleaned my dorm room, put in necessary work orders for ... are there. Next we have "apple," and what I presume to be "apple" in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  behaviors and beliefs of people who live in it? How can we change our ... how much I did not want to fucking drop this class. In the five weeks I ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  that I would play one of THE characters in THE chorus line. It was a ... saw myself smiling in the mirror during the jazz combo, or I would share ... time), often rambling about how exhausted/stressed I was. My caffeine

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  . I arrive at the hotel, and am initially told I can’t check in since I ... hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... at 12:45pm the following day, and realize I left my pencil case in my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field ... departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  -sustaining microcosm of MIT. In it, I’m constantly made aware of how design reaches ... addicting. I never built anything technical in high school, but in my senior ... knowledge to fit in, I was completely thrilled to join the community. In the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , it looks for attributes that you can demonstrate in just about any ... gained from it, how it has changed you, etc. Another piece of advice I ... the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  purpose. Oh well. I am, by the way, the one in the front row middle of the ... the brightest white legs, and that's me. Hey, I work in a lab all summer ... cheerleading can be found here -- it's a better picture mostly because I'm doing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right ... , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process ... similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... eloquent since honestly I don't really know how to explain it, but sometimes ... I think I have to be? That is how the world works I hope you learned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I ... most I've ever run in my life Attended two winter carnivals and even a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  Shiozawa. Afterward, we went out for drinks with Germain. I can’t believe I got to chat casually with a Paris opera star. I'm in the same picture ... of the seats in the Opera Bastille means that the stage can be flat

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  opinion. I can tell you that we didn't place any students in fraternities ... can reassign him to a dorm host. I chose to live in Baker House (a dorm ... primary major in science or engineering. I (like today's birthday girl) was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  the best people I've ever met. I'm constantly in awe of how amazing ... MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... had a relatively rough high school career and I really wasn't sure how I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  have to see how far I can go. Diagrams. Arrows. Fruitless ideas. Crossed ... for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... —balance, time-management, something. In my first few weeks here, I got a fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... Washington, and I'm from the valley in Oregon, so we feel the same way on days

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... pain. Then I fell asleep 40 minutes into recitation. So, you can staple

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  ,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson ... with its rush of cars. I'd forgotten how quiet the desert is.  I was ... [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023