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• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... become the next Pokémon master. Now in my 30s, I get to share my love for ... in learning to make my own earrings is that I get to express myself and

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  about the things in your life that are cool and unique. Don't be afraid to ... , fervor, a fire in the belly, whatever you want to call it - is still really ... 't have to rub it in.) The bottom line is, don't be afraid to reveal what

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  Japan-based company in Tokyo who attempted to be the first private company ... could be compared to the nervous system of the lander. We were in charge ... the Assembly, Integration, and Testing team. In order to work with them

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... ="aligncenter" width="251"] Kidist and I getting pizza in the North End in October! She ... embroidery. She showed me an embroidery kit she had and encouraged me to get

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  390, and learn how to make educational materials, including educational ... , an amazing pizza restaurant in Kendall Square that you should all go to ... Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  ."]temped[/annotation] in MacGregor?” “Yea to both!”  “I’m SO hoping that I get to stay in ... getting this far. In the meantime, hope you enjoy these silly spooky stories ... ’t the full picture. MIT students do work hard, but also know how to relax

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  's disturbing to me how painless it feels to be saying goodbye. two games i have ... possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make ... offered me a return offer and i accepted it. i asked to work in the new york

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... ’s time to step off. Your squad moves in its formation through the

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  oh two two" Electric fields and charges: mystery Unknowable to me in ... impossible to clasp There's elegance in here; there's symmetry And solving problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... choose the best students we can without regard to how much money they will ... admit will we pass them on to Daniel for his office to determine how much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  [/annotation] impending arrival. I was in the airport for my 8AM flight from Louisville to Boston ... of airline training'' "]how long he had to train to be a pilot ... moral of this story, but I can't get over how STINKING COOL MY AIRPLANE

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  to inform how we create welcoming spaces, but also to help me get ... little fun in between hours spent chopping wood to help heat our home ... of camaraderie forged in the face of adversity. I've learned to embrace

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently ... Campus party I went to was, nor what the last meal that I cooked in my hall ... .UAT workshop in 32-141. I actually had to look this one up in my email

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  , but we never got to meet in person. It was cool finally getting to do ... in this screenshot. I like to keep count of how many steps I take a day ... to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together ... do the math before recording in big rooms since the ability to ... problem sets, and while 6.864 was fun, I didn't get to actually implement

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  opportunities to get hands on rather than just brainstorm ideas. Fireflies, the ... felt incredibly motivated to solve the problems in a smarter way ... people to use our app, no matter how well it was designed. So we decided to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  to be picture-perfect copies of an in-person experience only lets ... current situation, I’ve gotten to see how our online communities have been ... exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  to how UROP works at MIT, and how I found mine. In about two weeks I ... in has something to do with it as well. But that's just a hypothesis ... 'll just have to see how it all goes. It's IAP, after all. Anything can

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  shouldn't choose not to come here because you think you'll be able to get in ... culinary horizons!) Work Next week is my last week in the lab (which is to ... logs this information to Excel. It takes me about 10 minutes to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade ... . Some Resolutions I'm resolving to leave being hosed in 2019. I know this ... was ten, and I was in fifth grade, and now I am twenty, and I am in

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020