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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  living with them again, I started thinking about how little time I would ... MIT – that's about 6,750 days. How many days would I have seen them ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... do the Overnight Program? No, I'm sorry. I'm still very interested in ... to follow). I would recommend sending us a note to this email address

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  to theorize about what you would do in certain situations or how your ... behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that ... can also explain why i am slower in conversations? as in, i find it very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast ... with since I'd done really well in BC calc, but decided to take anyway. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  Hello World! I haven't posted in a while - life has been busy ... to play with), I realized how much I missed my synths from back home ... might have guessed, I'm in that chair pretty often! I've been spending a

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next ... in McCormick Hall for about six months. At that point I decided I ... professional photographer, he takes more time at each photoshoot. How far in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do ... often think things like... How would I want to spend time with my best ... glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  kicked in, my brain began to register that I would be going to school out ... for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as ... leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  of the fireworks. I apologize in advance for our witty banter. I’m much ...   Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  of view. Therefore, I would be open to blogs from all of you! Send me ... QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a Stanford pen because I really liked the campus but staying here over CPW I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  I suspect I would have liked it. If you're potentially interested in ... for students in grades 9–12.     On Wednesday, May 13th, I ... a 'lay explanation', i.e. to describe it to us as you would to an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  there’s a level of raw truth in that statement. A kind of truth that I ... environment, not the flower.” And while I’ve always found value in those words, I don’t entirely agree anymore. Our environments and experiences in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  This summer is the first summer I am participating in an internship ... would be respected as an adult’s--that is, that I would be trusted to work ... is what has happened. I have felt junior in experience, but not junior

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random ... . I had another project, though, which I didn't talk much about in ... playing with physics. I had the opportunity to present those results in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary ... cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it ... , because you’ll forget otherwise. In fact, just schedule time for things that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  (yet clean) quotes: "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can ... hurried over to buy our tickets "There's no crime in giving yourself over ... , be it" pool scene... clearly, they've never seen the team in action I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  difference. Sometimes, I wonder about how different my life would have been ... , and I think in the end that’s what would’ve been the strongest factor to ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  am I looking for? What/who would make me happy? What do I want in a ... :) _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ So last time I poured out all that I had in my brain regarding my ... felt like I was in love and similarly the many times that I was wrong

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... crashed in World War I, so he gave up that dream in favor of becoming an ... by his drawing, "Central European Time." I thought I would be able to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006