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• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  the ballot box’ since I can’t vote. Even in conversations, I catch ... Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... where I am directly affected by the racism in this country but I have very

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was ... in an RPG, his charisma would be... cheat code." ***** "I'm convinced ... : Well, you can't put expensive things in public places and not expect them

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  members in the service so during the semester, it can be difficult to get ... realize that you’re only going to be as good as you believe you can be. I ... for two weeks I fed myself in a couple of different ways this IAP. For

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  for a trash can, and then walked into the room. I am so smart. And I thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of ... major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  for you, you can imagine how time consuming this can be. Even daylight ... had a dream where I visited Snively at his school. I walked in in the ... CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  Charles River has been replaced by a partial one that I can glimpse if I ... was and still am afraid that if these kids confide in me, I won't know ... -up question to this during the interview was how I'd handle this situation if it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  how, until I realize that this is the same world where  “the waitress ... future. 2. when sapphics say love is in the air when i am with you,  we ...   i want to weave the threads of cloud  into an infinity scarf that can

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  – that’s how I function. Using a stool to press down on a drying foam ... . All I can see are challenging, wondrous things. ... hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... 2 summers in Boston when I was in high school and they were so fun

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  still send in supplementary materials and, if so, until what date can I do ... 't circle any, but in the titles put how many years I've been practicing the ... letter of recommendation with my birthdate? Also, how can I make sure the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  improve that much in terms of how much I could lift; my workouts weren ... " align="alignnone" width="400"] how I'm trying to be in 2024[/caption ... . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no ... , probably because I went in with no expectations at all. This time around

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  " "Kittens always hungry" "How can you tell if you are underfeeding your kittens?" "Can cats read minds" "Do cats have x-ray vision?" "Should I let ... fleas (though I certainly haven't heard a word of thanks) sleeping in my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  can tell, it’s quite useful :P This is what I've been playing with in ... when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... chemical reactions (reactions that oscillate in time and space), so I had to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  known how to save a life. I listened to this song so much in high school ... Solitude back in late 2020. I love The New Pornographers because of how ... By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how ... that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... high school visit, I got in my car and cried. I cried not only because

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  finally took the swim test! Yay, now I can graduate. In a random bit of ... : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... somewhere in the neighborhood of $30, and I had already spent $30 at LAX last

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  ;   M.I.T. Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix By BILL FINLEY   ... scorer in M.I.T. history with more than 2,000 career points. He scored 32 ... student at M.I.T., particularly in his physics courses. "Some of these kids

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... can no longer remember which—my problem set for 18.701 (algebra I) was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023